John Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance
Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Orchestral Performance
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
In every respect, this disc is a must for all fans of John Adams and Marin Alsop. The performances and recording are terrific, and the programme provides a good range of the composer’s style…...
John Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance
Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
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Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Orchestral Performance
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
In every respect, this disc is a must for all fans of John Adams and Marin Alsop. The performances and recording are terrific, and the programme provides a good range of the composer’s style…...
About
John Adams’ music has long since captured the admiration of listeners for its inimitable American qualities. City Noir was inspired by the cultural and social history of Los Angeles, with Adams calling it ‘an imaginary film score’ in its evocation of a terse, melodramatic and menace-drenched sound world. Fearful Symmetries exemplifies Adams’ steamroller motor rhythms, endlessly inventive in their shifts of timbre, texture and color. The album ends with a work dedicated to Marin Alsop, a capricious “Spider Dance” of memorable rhythmic drive.
Contents and tracklist
Spotlight on this release
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Marin Alsop on John Adams
8th Apr 2024
The conductor talks about her latest album on Naxos of three virtuosic orchestral pieces by John Adams with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, including the premiere recording of a work dedicated to her.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards2025Nominated - Contemporary Music
June 2024
In every respect, this disc is a must for all fans of John Adams and Marin Alsop. The performances and recording are terrific, and the programme provides a good range of the composer’s style… The addition of a new [piece] makes the proposition all the more enticing.
Classical Explorer July 2024
The score is vibrant, full of effective juxtapositions. It needs just the sort of performance Alsop and her Vienna forces provide, clean, shot through with energy… One of Naxos’ finest releases: the ORF orchestra glitters under Alsop’s baton, and the recording is absolutely top-notch.
