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 … Continue reading Live on BBC Radio 3, Wednesday, February 25 at the Royal Festival Hall – UK premiere of John Adams’s After the Fall – Víkingur Ólafsson/Philharmonia Orchestra/Esa-Pekka Salonen. Plus Daphnis.