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Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis SO, David Robertson - John Adams: Scheherazade.2 (2016)

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Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis SO, David Robertson - John Adams: Scheherazade.2 (2016)

John Adams: Scheherazade.2 (2016)
Leila Josefowicz, violin; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; David Robertson, conductor

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 214 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 113 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Nonesuch | # 7559 79435-1 | Time: 00:47:36

You'd get differing answers to the question of whether John Adams is America's greatest living composer, but he's the one to whom the country turned in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The demand for new work from him has only increased since he achieved senior citizen status. Fortunately, he's been able to meet that demand with distinctive large-scale works. Consider 2016's Scheherazade.2, recorded here by the violinist who premiered the work, Leila Josefowicz, with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under David Robertson. The piece succeeds on several levels. It is, outwardly, as close as Adams has come to writing a big Romantic violin concerto, and it will no doubt be welcomed into the concert repertory as such. Yet go into it more deeply, and it seems less a concerto than – well, what, exactly? Adams calls it a "dramatic symphony." English critic Nick Breckenfield has compared it to Berlioz's Harold in Italy, with the soloist representing an individual making her way through a series of adventures that may have a threatening tinge.

Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony, David Robertson - John Adams: Violin Concerto (2018)

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Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony, David Robertson - John Adams: Violin Concerto (2018)

Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony, David Robertson - John Adams: Violin Concerto (2018)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 33:08 | 194 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Nonesuch Records | Catalog: 7559-79351-O

Composed in 1993, the John Adams Violin Concerto is already a contemporary classic. Some reviewers say it is the best violin concerto written in the past 50 years. This new recording by Leila Josefowicz is the last word on what are now many recordings by some of the world's finest players. She first recorded the Violin Concerto in 2002 with John Adams, the composer, conducting. What makes this new recording the best? Josefowicz "owns" the piece having performed it in concert over 100 times since the premiere!