Browse: Adams, J - John's Book of Alleged Dances

There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue... — Sunday Times, 7th December 2022 More…

John's Book of Alleged Dances (the equivocation in the title refers to dance steps that have yet to be invented) is prime-cut Adams – fidgety, tuneful, teeming with invention and all but tactile... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

[Dance patterns] only provide a basis from which Adams constructs a number of highly virtuoso and impressive rhythmic studies, matched on this recording by the Attacca Quartet's superlative technical... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2013 More…

Angele Dubeau and the Canadian ensemble La Pieta bring affection, precision, and a programme that makes a persuasive narrative from these three works which had yet to feature on one disc...In... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…