Hallelujah Junction: Adams, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Bernstein | Alpha ALPHA1122

Hallelujah Junction: Adams, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Bernstein

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA1122

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Chamber

Release Date: 25th April 2025

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This highly varied programme pays tribute to American music with works by Gershwin, Stravinsky, Copland and McPhee, a succession of melting-pots that create fusions of classical music, jazz, Mexican music and Balinese rhythms. The spectacular and rebellious Fourth Ballad from Frederic Rzewski's North American Ballads (1978–79) is also included. This musical odyssey concludes with the vast fresco that is John Adams's magnificent Hallelujah Junction (1996).

Anna Geniushene and Lukas Geniušas both have brilliant careers as soloists: Anna won the silver medal at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2022 and now records for Fuga Libera, while Lukas’s two Rachmaninov recordings, a recital of solo works (ALPHA997) and songs with Asmik Grigorian (ALPHA796), have both won major awards. Partners in life and in art, they form a highly virtuosic and tightly knit duo.

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Reviews

The playing is finely balanced and unobtrusively imaginative throughout, but it’s the two more recent pieces that are arguably the most interesting. Frederic Rzewski’s Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues is initially unsettlingly inhuman, weaving the protest song into the noise of factory machines: you can picture the pianists as automatons thumping at the keyboards. ... Written in 1996, [Hallelujah Junction is] an example of how Adams can make minimalism feel huge and eclectic; the pianists trace its jangling and surging lines brilliantly.  Erica Jeal
The Guardian 25 April 2025

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