BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
John Storgårds conductor
Alim Beisembayev* piano
Charles Ives The Unanswered Question
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4
John Adams City Noir
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. A symphony inspired by the iconography of 40s and 50s film noir, it weaves a dark and swaggering jazz sensibility through its three movements.
Adams’s work is cinematic in its scope. In the composer’s own words: ‘The music should have the slightly disorienting effect of a very crowded boulevard peopled with strange characters, like those of a David Lynch film – the kind who only come out very late on a very hot night.’
*Alim Beisembayev has replaced Paul Lewis who is no longer able to perform. Ticket holders have been notified.
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