City Noir
Album by John Adams & Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra & David Robertson
City Noir is an orchestral composition by American composer John Adams, written and premiered in 2009. The work blends jazz-inflected, film-noir textures with Adams's post-minimalist orchestral language, featuring prominent brass writing, driving rhythmic motifs and cinematic harmonic progressions, and marks a late-career engagement with American urban and cinematic themes in his output.
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- 1.City Noir: I. The City and its Double13:47
- 2.City Noir: II. The Song is for You9:22
- 3.City Noir: III. Boulevard Night12:14
- 4.Saxophone Concerto: I. Animato12:28
- 5.Saxophone Concerto: I. (cont’d.) Moderato -9:20
- 6.Saxophone Concerto: II. Molto vivo (a hard driving pulse)5:51
