Cold Blue's John Luther Adams: Red Arc/Blue Veil contrasts some of John Luther Adams' piano music with his percussion music, an appropriate idea as, at least in these pieces, Adams treats the piano as a sort of hyper-percussion orchestra. Pianists Stephen Drury and Yukiko Takagi perform Adams' Dark Waves (2007), which is scored for two pianos and electronic sounds. Certainly, the piece perfectly illustrates the title, as it consists of huge, ever expanding volleys of piano sound that evoke a stormy night's voyage spent on ...
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Cold Blue's John Luther Adams: Red Arc/Blue Veil contrasts some of John Luther Adams' piano music with his percussion music, an appropriate idea as, at least in these pieces, Adams treats the piano as a sort of hyper-percussion orchestra. Pianists Stephen Drury and Yukiko Takagi perform Adams' Dark Waves (2007), which is scored for two pianos and electronic sounds. Certainly, the piece perfectly illustrates the title, as it consists of huge, ever expanding volleys of piano sound that evoke a stormy night's voyage spent on the Bering Sea, impressive waves crashing over the ship. The electronic sounds appear to be a mere extension of the piano's capability to sustain and are not in themselves ostentatious, as the designation would suggest. Among Red Mountains (2001) is a solo piano piece played by Drury; here Adams utilizes the piano cluster chord in a manner reminiscent of Henry Cowell's The Snows of Fujiyama, but also differently. While Cowell sought to capture the majesty of the huge snowdrifts of the...
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