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Absolute Jest

Composer: John Adams
Performers: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Joana Carneiro
Recording date: 19 January 2020
Date of broadcast: 02 March 2020

Part film soundtrack - imagine the Matrix - and part mash-up of Beethoven tunes from his symphonies, Adams gives us a musical joke with a serious core. Driving rhythms and punchy interjections makes this work hurtle through time and space. It's a concerto for string quartet and orchestra but it is so much more than that!

Composer: John Adams
Performers: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Joana Carneiro
Recording date: 19 January 2020
Date of broadcast: 02 March 2020

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26 minutes