The genesis of this disc was Dan Laurin’s idea to commission a concerto for recorder and symphony orchestra. He had performed a number of such works already, but felt that the new, more powerful ‘Eagle’ recorder developed by the maker Adriana Breukink cou五月六月丁香婷婷激情
John Adams (b. 1947) dedicated Naive and Sentimental Music to Esa-Pekka Salonen, who conducted the first performance, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, on 19 February 1999 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center of Los Angeles County. Written for a large orchestra including six percussionists, keyboard sampler, and amplified steel-string guitar, the piece was co-commissioned by the Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The dedication to Salonen, who also conducted the work’s first recording (made for Nonesuch in 2002), was significant: Adams felt that Salonen led a ‘bipolar’ musical life, since as both conductor and composer he ‘experiences daily the jarring collisions ofpublic and private, of extrovert and introvert, and the harsh divisions between one’s inner and outer lives’. Such contrasts and clashes lie at the very heart of Adams’s sweepingly symphonic piece, which has also been used as the basis for a ballet (staged by New York City Ballet in 2009, with choreography by Peter Martins).
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