Cambridge Philharmonic - Adams, Adès & Ives

Saturday 20 May 2017
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
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Commissioned in 1999 by the New York Philharmonic to write a work for the new millennium, Thomas Adès found inspiration in the music and events of 500 years earlier, notably the 16th century Mayan people and their fate at the hands of the Spanish conquistadores.
John Adams’s work of two years later was commissioned by the same orchestra but under very different circumstances. Using recorded testimony from people personally affected by the events of 9/11 Adams weaves their voices into his profoundly moving and beautiful choral work On The Transmigration of Souls.
Both Adès and Adams have acknowledged the influence of that great American master, Charles Ives, whose Second Symphony of 1901 was belatedly premiered and championed by LeonardBernstein in the 1950s. Masterfully combining everything from Beethoven’s Fifth to America the Beautiful into a joyous and triumphant whole, Ives takes the listener on an extraordinary journey through a broad musical landscape.

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