2(I=picc).picc.2.corA.2(II=bhn).bcl.2.3(III=dbn)-4.2.2.0-perc(1): almgl/b dr/sn dr-honky tonk piano-solo piano-b.gtr-strings
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Boosey & Hawkes (Hendon Music)
"It’s true, the ‘Devil’ is up to his old tricks. But what a devil! And what tricks!” —LA Times
“His latest work definitely leans in the trickster direction as per its mischievous title… like Century Rolls, it bristles with a percussive, highly-rhythmic, technically fearsome piano part… an excitable, satisfying, boisterous vehicle for Wang and Dudamel.” —Musical America
“This is a city piece: all steel girders and glass monoliths, pounding factory rhythms and fatally seductive temptations around every corner — very much the modern-day equivalent of a Lisztian “Totentanz” that Adams has said he was aiming to create… a Prokofiev-style piano concerto, retrofitted with minimalist rhythmic cells, bebop bursts of brass and ironic commentary from a sampled, out-of-tune, honky-tonk piano… driving syncopations and a riot of orchestral color building to a satisfying finish”. —Washington Post
“The central section is one of Adams’s most evocative interludes. The electric bass provides a dark, shadowy bottom to the strings legato expressive sheen, as the piano casts a web of glistening melodic threads up above. But soon the nocturne idyll is broken… and the concerto takes off in a final section of pure energy.” —San Francisco Classical Voice
“Uneasily Fascinating … beautifully disconcerting concerto” —New York Times
Yuja Wang/Los Angeles Philharmonic/
Gustavo Dudamel
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