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Piano concerto "Must the Devil have alle the good tunes" (180g) (Pre-Order) LP  + China Gates for piano Artists:  ,  ,  Label:  , 2019 Expected Release date: 16.10.2020
The world premiere of John Adams' Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? with the GRAMMY®-winning Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel and star pianist Yuja Wang. "Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?" Is the latest piano work by the American composer John Adams. The work commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic was written by Adams for the pianist Yuja Wang and premiered in March 2019 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel - a “wonderfully irritating concert,” judged The New York Times, it was “on disturbing way fascinating «. This work is now being released digitally and on vinyl as a world premiere. »Finally we have an official recording of the work with Gustavo Dudamel and his orchestra and the soloist Yuja Wang ... an album for which you should put on headphones because it is worth immersing yourself in the music. ”- The New York Times. As always in Adams' music, a first musical thought is interwoven with many others, including Liszt, Ligeti, and gospel music. Musical America wrote that the concert "features a percussive, rhythmic, technically terrifying piano part ... [and is] an exciting, rewarding, turbulent medium for Wang and Dudamel." Adams' ability to deconstruct aesthetic clichés and to overcome gaps between different musical styles earned him worldwide recognition. Last year he was the first American composer to receive the prestigious Erasmus Prize for his contribution to contemporary classical music. Yuja Wang inspires with her "scintillating fingerwork ... in this powerful performance," according to the Financial Times. She easily masters the sometimes extremely difficult piano setting and convincingly combines lightness and elegance with dynamism and explosiveness - the contrasting but characteristic properties of Adams' music. In its review of the premiere, the Washington Post wrote of her play that she was "just as impressive for her poetic sensitivity as for her brilliant fireworks". Track listing
Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes 1I. Gritty, Funky, But in strict tempo; Twitchy, Bot-Like (Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes) 2II. Much Slower; Gently, Relaxed (Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes) 3II. Much Slower; Gently, Relaxed (Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes) 4Iii. Piú Mosso: Obsession / Swing (Must The Devil Have All The Good Tunes) 5China Gates