After the Fall is John Adams’s third piano concerto. It was written for Víkingur Ólafsson. It’s quite engaging. Although there are passages of calm, even etherealness, the bulk of the single movement is a virtually seamless growth to a rhythmic melee with plenty of incident, an accumulation of energy and density released as an orgy of speed and patterns, with a J. S. Bach Prelude at the work’s core; I just wish Adams had ended the score more decisively, rather than seemingly in mid-sentence. As an encore, following a no-doubt excellent performance, Ólafsson played a celebrated Bach ‘Air’ in his arrangement. Following the interval, Salonen’s latest London traversal of Ravel’s Daphnis (Philharmonia Chorus vocalising), somewhat manhandled at times, and the broadcast sound was limited, but there was no escaping that Salonen’s showman instincts were on display, sometimes.
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