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Adams - Violin Concerto | Nonesuch 7559793510

Adams - Violin Concerto

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Label: Nonesuch

Cat No: 7559793510

Barcode: 0075597935103

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 27th April 2018

Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Artists

Leila Josefowicz (violin)
St Louis Symphony

Conductor

David Robertson

Works

Adams, John

Violin Concerto

Artists

Leila Josefowicz (violin)
St Louis Symphony

Conductor

David Robertson

About

Nonesuch releases a new recording of John Adams’s Grawemeyer Award–winning Violin Concerto (1993) with his frequent collaborators violinist Leila Josefowicz, conductor David Robertson, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. The album was recorded at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis.

Adams’s Violin Concerto was co-commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, and the New York City Ballet. It was described by the Boston Globe as having ‘the qualities of intelligence, craftsmanship, and quirkiness that have always marked the composer and his work; this time Adams also mingles virtuoso show with soul, popular appeal with the staying power that comes from intellectual interest.’ The premiere recording of the work, featuring violinist Gidon Kremer and the London Symphony Orchestra led by Kent Nagano, was released by Nonesuch in 1996.

Josefowicz said of the concerto in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “It was the piece where [Adams] first got to know me as a person and a player, when I was twenty-one… When I started playing this piece, it was the confirmation of the new path that I was on, to really go down this new road with new music and with composers, because this experience was so inspiring for me.” She further said, “It has a really dancelike feeling, so the violin line is often incredibly syncopated with everything else going on in the orchestra… Basically, it’s supposed to make you groove.”

Reviews

The 2018 Josefowicz vintage certainly brings with it a depth and maturation that can only be achieved through 20 years of living and breathing a work now performed by the violinist more than 100 times. Throw into the mix David Robertson’s bold interpretation with the excellent St Louis Symphony Orchestra and this recording sets a new benchmark.  Pwyll ap Siôn
Gramophone June 2018

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