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Doric String Quartet, RSNO, Peter Oundjian - John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music; Absolute Jest (2018)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 13 Dec 2022 19:38:09

Doric String Quartet, RSNO, Peter Oundjian - John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music; Absolute Jest (2018)

As part of his final year as Music Director and following a two-season celebration of the Orchestra’s 125th anniversary, Peter Oundjian and the RSNO here present their second recording of music by John Adams, with the exceptional participation of the Doric String Quartet. Written for a large orchestra including six percussionists, keyboard sampler, and amplified steel-string guitar, Naive and Sentimental Music is a sweepingly symphonic masterpiece, full of contrasts and clashes. It reflects the dichotomy between ‘naive’ and ‘sentimental’ poetry as analysed by Friedrich Schiller in his 1795 essay Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung, as well as the ‘bipolar’ musical life of Esa-Pekka Salonen, the dedicatee of this piece, who conducted the first performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1999. Absolute Jest is a large-scale scherzo for amplified string quartet and orchestra, heavily inspired by the music of Beethoven, which Adams has always deeply admired. The quartet of soloists, a late addition to the score, emphasises the echoes of Beethoven’s music (mainly his string quartets) and facilitates a ‘hyperspace rate’ of virtuosity, which the Doric String Quartet here perfectly demonstrates.

There's a strong case to be made for John Adams as America's greatest living composer, and his music is increasingly often getting performed in Britain and continental Europe. The all-British Isles forces on this Chandos release – the Doric String Quartet with the Royal Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Peter Oundjian – do especially well with these Adams pieces, and it may be because these, of all Adams' works, are concerned with the European legacy to an unusual degree. Start off with Absolute Jest, an ebullient 2011 work for string quartet and orchestra in seven joined sections that is a kind of fantasia on late Beethoven, most of all the String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135, and String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131. It is less a concerto for string quartet than a work that uses the string quartet to introduce the material on which the orchestra will elaborate and comment, and it's as much fun as anything Adams ever wrote. The better-known (and earlier) Naive and Sentimental Music is very Brucknerian, or at least it would be if Bruckner had lived in California and played a Hawaiian or country steel guitar. You may find cleaner orchestral performances of this work, but Oundjian is in touch with its soul. Highly recommended among the various non-American choices for major Adams works.

Review by James Manheim, Allmusic.com

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Doric String Quartet (1-6):
Alex Redington, violin
Jonathan Stone, violin
Hélène Clément, viola
John Myerscough, cello

Sean Shibe, steel-string guitar (7-9)

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Peter Oundjian, conductor

Recorded: 28 August 2017
Recording Venue: Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Tracklist:

Absolute Jest (2011, revised 2012)
for String Quartet and Orchestra
Dedicated to my friends Brent Assink, John Goldman, and Michael Tilson Thomas
01. Dotted crotchet = 100 - Poco miù mosso - Tranquillo (lo stesso tempo dotted crotcher = 100) - (10:36)
02. Presto dotted crotchet = 130 - Lo stesso tempo - minim = 97 - dotted crotchet = 127 - (3:36)
03. Lo stesso tempo (dotted crotchet = 116) - minim = 87 - crotchet = 87 - (1:08)
04. Meno mosso crotchet = 80 - crotchet = 76 Moderato e tranquillo - dotted minum = 116 - (3:20)
05. Vivacissimo (Lo stesso tempo dotted minum = 116) - (1:56)
06. Prestissimo dotted crotchet = 116 - minum = 88 - minum = 102 - minum = 60 (4:49)

Naive and Sentimental Music (1997-98)
for Orchestra
For Esa-Pekka
07. I. Naive and Sentimental Music. Quaver = 92 - quaver = 108 - quaver = 116 - (18:51)
08. II. Mother of the Man. Very calm crotchet = 72 - crotchet = 60 - (15:49)
09. III. Chain to the Rhythm. Crotchet = 92 - minum = 96 - minum = 72 - minum = 100 (11:18)

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