After the Fall

Adventures in Music
“nothing short of phenomenal”
“After the Fall constitutes a single-movement entity, subdivided into sections of utmost evocative sonic narratives, displaying Adams’s musical imagination at its finest.”

KQED
“extraordinary ... a remarkable composition”
“After the Fall is laden with imagery—fields, flight, turbulence, pursuit, heartbeat.”

San Francisco Chronicle
“a terrific addition to the composer’s catalog”
“The sparse texture of the repeated rhythmic figurations does invoke Bach — though only Adams could have written the explosive, more densely orchestrated balance of the first movement.”

Sean and Heard International
“a thrill ride that brims with tangy harmonies, dazzling pianistic flourishes and, most of all, a panoply of distinctive rhythms.”

Classical Voice North America
“immediately attractive, rolling along in a stream of consciousness”
“As he has done repeatedly with Beethoven, Adams again has come up with a piece that mines the past and winningly deposits what he finds into his own idiom."

Neue Zürcher Zeitung [translated]
“Stylistically, the work spans the breadth of music history—from the rhythmic pulsations reminiscent of Stravinsky or Bartók ... to the delicate colors of Ravel, blended with a few ‘modern’ experiments.”

Süddeutsche Zeitung [translated]
“The final movement fully comes to life with cascading piano runs, jagged string figures, and pounding chordal pillars that create a powerful groove.”