亞當斯:天真和感傷的音樂/絕對的惡作劇 多利克弦樂四重奏 皇家蘇格蘭國家管弦樂團 Doric String Quartet / John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music & Absolute Jest

As part of his final year as Music Director and
following a two-season celebration of the
Orchestra's 125th anniversary, Peter Oundjian and
the RSNO here present their second recording of
music by John Adams, with the exceptional
participation of the Doric String Quartet.
Written for a large orchestra including six
percussionists, keyboard sampler, and amplified
steel-string guitar, Naive and Sentimental Music is a
sweepingly symphonic masterpiece, full of
contrasts and clashes. It reflects the dichotomy
between 'naive' and 'sentimental' poetry as
analysed by Friedrich Schiller in his 1795 essay Über
naive und sentimentalische Dichtung, as well as the
'bipolar' musical life of Esa-Pekka Salonen, the
dedicatee of this piece, who conducted the first
performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in
1999.

Absolute Jest is a large-scale scherzo for amplified
string quartet and orchestra, heavily inspired by the
music of Beethoven, which Adams has always
deeply admired. The quartet of soloists, a late
addition to the score, emphasises the echoes of
Beethoven's music (mainly his string quartets) and
facilitates a 'hyperspace rate' of virtuosity, which
the Doric String Quartet here perfectly
demonstrates.