City Noir is John Adams’s musical tribute to half-lit rooms, venetian blinds, desperate men, dangerous women, secrets, lies, and the City of Angels.
City Noir is John Adams’s musical tribute to half-lit rooms, venetian blinds, desperate men, dangerous women, secrets, lies, and the City of Angels.
Sea, sky and symphonic power shape this programme from evocative seascape to heroic close. Grace Williams’s Sea Sketches shimmer, Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto features Alim Beisimbayev, and Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony ends in triumphant sweep.