{"id":50999,"date":"2024-12-20T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/6ea64433-13ec-40c1-9725-2569f74a3a15"},"modified":"2025-01-03T19:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:09:21","slug":"review-an-atlas-of-deep-time-john-luther-adams","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/review-an-atlas-of-deep-time-john-luther-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: An Atlas of Deep Time (John Luther Adams)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 20 December 2024 at 13:41 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html> <head\/> <body> <p><strong>John Luther Adams<\/strong><br\/> An Atlas of Deep Time<br\/> South Dakota Symphony Orchestra\/Delta David Gier<br\/><em>Cantaloupe CA21199\u00a0\u00a0\u00a041:57 mins\u00a0<\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"> <audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/01\/ORCHESTRAL-JL-Adams-An-Atlas-of-Deep-Time-An-Atlas-of-Deep-Time.mp3\"\/> <\/figure> <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Clip: John Luther Adams &#8211; An Atlas of Deep Time<\/h6> <p><em>An Atlas of Deep Time<\/em>\u00a0might just be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/john-luther-adams-2\">John Luther Adams<\/a>\u2019s best work since his Pulitzer-Prize-Winning\u00a0<em>Become Ocean<\/em>\u00a0of 2013. Like that piece, this latest orchestral epic takes our planet as its subject, listening and looking far beyond the small speck that humanity plays in its history. Across a sweeping 42-minute panorama, he explores the idea of deep time, of an Earth that is 4 billion, 570 million years old. By his maths, \u2018the entire history of the human family is represented in the dying reverberations of the last 25 milliseconds of this music\u2019 (a high, ethereal tapering off the violins).<\/p> <p>A humbling perspective, for sure, and one backed up by the sense of awe created by the music. If\u00a0<em>Become Ocean<\/em>\u2019s orchestral palette was aquatic,\u00a0<em>An Atlas of Deep Time<\/em>\u00a0is hewn from the earth, regularly punctuated with cascades of drums and striding piano that root and energise the music. An expansive space opens up at the start, rising up from the\u00a0bottom of the orchestra, as if we are climbing through some vast canyon, ready to be overwhelmed by the natural world.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/classical-music-inspired-by-nature-six-of-the-best\">How the sounds of the natural world inspired classical music<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/classical-music-inspired-by-nature-weather-storms\">16 captivating evocations of storms, weather and the drama of nature<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <p>Adding to that effect is the immersive nature of the writing, with the instruments grouped into six \u2018choirs\u2019 (<em>Become Ocean<\/em>\u00a0had three) and six simultaneous tempos.. Reports of the premiere in 2022 by the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, who play excellently on this recording under Delta David Grier, suggest that it was hard to find the ideal space to appreciate them all. That\u2019s resolved here. The music surges and subsides with primeval power, mixing terror, awe and beauty \u2013 and it repays repeated listening, with new aspects revealing themselves each time.\u00a0<em>Rebecca Franks<\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"> <div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An Atlas of Deep Time\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VpW3fSgmoUk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/> <\/div> <figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"> John Luther Adams &#8211; An Atlas of Deep Time <\/figcaption> <\/figure> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Friday, 20 December 2024 at 13:41 PM John Luther Adams An Atlas of Deep Time South Dakota Symphony Orchestra\/Delta David GierCantaloupe CA21199\u00a0\u00a0\u00a041:57 mins\u00a0 Clip: John Luther Adams &#8211; An Atlas of Deep Time An Atlas of Deep Time\u00a0might just be John Luther Adams\u2019s best work since his Pulitzer-Prize-Winning\u00a0Become Ocean\u00a0of 2013. 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