Adams, J L

a wondrous and tumultuous single-movement work for large orchestra that affirms music's capacity to shift our very state of being...The work combines great formal simplicity...with an almost... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

John Luther Adams’s music is like nobody else’s...57 minutes, the work’s gradual transformations in pitch and mood happen imperceptibly, moving from deeply sonorous rumbles to celestial shimmers.... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Adams’s music for string quartet is sunk in light, as the Kindertotenlieder poet, Friedrich Rückert, dictates to the grief-stricken. Adams doesn’t so much illuminate object or process as he... — Fanfare, Jan/Feb 2021More…

Adams sustains the epic breadth by gradually lowering, then raising, the music’s pitch, and subtly bleeding different colours – timpani rolls, plangent horns - into and out of the cloudy notes... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

The JACK Quartet do astonishing things with this work, which is apparently based on subatomic analysis, but you don’t need to know anything about that to enjoy — or at least succumb to — its... — The TimesMore…