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Adams: Shaker Loops; The Wound-Dresser; Short Ride in a Fast Machine.(Sound Recording Review)
Adams: Shaker Loops; The Wound-Dresser; Short Ride in a Fast Machine. Nathan Gunn, baritone; Marin Alsop, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Naxos 8.559031.
It's not hard to understand why composer John Adams' Shaker Loops is one of this modern composer's most popular works. As conductor Simon Rattle has explained, Adams' music has "always seemed to be moving forward in space, that I would imagine while listening to it that I was in a light aircraft flying rather fast, close to the ground." Very true. Adams' music has a wonderful forward momentum, and in Shaker Loops, especially, a strong rhythmic beat.
The present album contains four works quite different from another, particularly for a composer best known as a minimalist. The disc begins with a real barnburner, "Short Ride in a Fast Machine." Two minutes into this thing and I felt like I was back on Northern California's coastal Highway I in my 350Z. It's very exhilarating (the music and the Z), with Alsop's conducting the Bournemouth Symphony with all stops open. This high-octane piece is followed by two downers, "The Wound-Dresser" and "Berceuse elegiaque," both slow and rather gloomy affairs, the former a musical ...
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