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John Adams: Roll Over Beethoven

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A duo of pianists from the London Symphony Orchestra’s percussion ensemble present the world premiere recording of Roll Over Beethoven by John Adams.

Roll Over Beethoven pays homage to the electric vitality of Beethoven’s intensely physical, expressive world, and takes fragments from his Diabelli Variations and the Piano Sonata Opus 110 and transforms them in the unique black box of Adams’ own musical language. In only twenty short minutes, Adams manages to generate an absorbing structure that, in his words, ‘takes these tiny musical fractals through a grand tour of a harmonic and rhythmic hall of mirrors.’

Composer John Adams
Performers LSO Percussion Ensemble, Philip Moore, Joseph Havlat

1. I. Allegro molto
2. II. Andantino

Release Date 15 February 2019
LSO5086-D | 0822231508632

Producer Simon Rhodes
Engineers Neil Hutchinson
Recorded 1-11 March 2018, LSO St Luke's, London

DSD (Direct Stream Digital) recording

FLAC - 24bit 96kHz - Compatible with Windows and Android devices
MP3 - 320kbps - Universal compatibility

Available on streaming services

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