Eros Piano - John Adams - Codarts Symphony Orchestra

Codarts Symphony Orchestra played John Adams' (1947) Eros Piano in De Doelen in November 2011.
Conductor: Hans Leenders
Piano: Bart van de Roer
www.codarts.nl
camera: Hike Kurvink, Paul Robbert Hodde, editing: AlphaMotions.

[@MuseDuCafe]

The BBC had every capacity to make the choice to digitally clean up and remove all the coughing post concert-post recording, but left it, marring this RECORDED very nice performance of a really nice piece.

[@BriannaMatzke]

THE COUGHING OH MY GOD THE COUGHING

[@BriannaMatzke]

beautiful performance though! which is why it bothered me so much...

[@jeandespres4342]

Good performance, greatly enhanced by the audience's persistent coughing

[@Coffee_n_Opera]

Work was commissioned 1984?

[@AlphaMotions]

True. Yes.

[@javiervivanco919]

Sounds like takemitsu but Ike it

[@jeandespres4342]

Love the constant coughing. Perhaps an early Covid outbreak in 2011? That would be of great scientific interest.

[@KeithOtisEdwards]

Considering that John Adams has written the most moving piece of the century -- "Batter My Heart, O Three-Personed God" from *Doctor Atomic* -- a long, academic-sounding piece such as this is a disappointment. It seems as if he has abandoned music for what Winton Marsalis calls "textures."

[@RaisinPyramids]

1. have you heard azul by golijov cuz that takes the cake from me for 'most moving piece of the century (a century that is only 17 years old i might add), unless you meant the last 100 years, in which case we have to contend with Sibelius's 7th symphony, coltrane's a love supreme, Bartok's 3rd piano concerto, rach's 2nd concerto, britten's war requiem, pettersson's 7th, silvestrov's 5th, vaughan-williams's 5th... and if we're not being all pretentious about film music being an inferior art form, there's a whole lot by james newton howard and howard shore that's pretty moving... and if we're not being all pretentious about musicals, there's some pretty wonderful stuff in hamilton and next to normal and the book of mormon... and heck there's even adams's own on the transmigration of souls that i think is pretty freaking moving 2. when did the use of consonant harmony become "academic" again 3. how is this music in any world textural lol ligeti is textural; saariaho is textural; you could even argue that reich is textural. here the music has ebbs and flows in activity, dialogues between piano and orchestra, use of melody (perhaps not functionally tonal but melody nonetheless); just aurally it sounds more neo-classical than textural 4. how are textures not music (debussy's pagodes? takemitsu's everything?) 5. wynton marsalis... the trumpeter/jazz musician??? of all the thinkers you could cite who talk about textural music... why not, say, boulez? or taruskin? next you'll tell me scheharazade.2 is textural compared to grand pianola music

[@mosaicclassics]

Wow. You really showed him.

[@shnimmuc]

Boring.