Paavo Järvi & Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich - John Adams - BBC Music Magazine

Slonimsky’s Earbox is more characteristic of Adams’s later style, still repetitive, but with a greater variety of rhythm and texture. The inspiration of Stravinsky’s Chant du Rossignol is never far away in this work, and sometimes overt in the harmonic and melodic shapes. There’s more for the orchestra to get its teeth into here, and it’s a taut performance, with a nicely detailed recording in the excellent Tonhalle acoustic.