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Emanuele Arciuli's Americans! XXth Century Piano Music of American Composers is an excellent recording, including John Adams' China Gates.
And the New York skyline cover photo, with both the Statue of Liberty ("Liberty Enlightening the World") and the World Trade Center, remains thought-provoking...
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On first listen, this is a vibrant recording of John Adams' Violin Concerto. It's hard to believe but the work's premiere was twenty years ago.
Classical Candor on the recording:
The music becomes more insistent as it carries on in an ever-forward circular pattern of rhythms, Hoopes making the most of its sometimes eerie transformations. Even though you won't find the melodic lines of a Mendelssohn here, you'll find Hoopes is able to keep your attention with his well-animated playing.
I have nothing to say about Mendelssohn...
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Via Burning Ambulance , a new and rather different recording of the canonic Music for 18 Musicians. I agree that the re-orchestration of this version lacks the shimmer of previous recordings but I'll give it a deeper listen.
Rough Fields – Music for 18 Musicians (Rough Fields Overdubbed Version) – Rdio
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