AMERICAN GRACE: PIANO MUSIC FROM JOHN ADAMS & JOHN MACKEY - ORLI SHAHAM, DAVID ROBERTSON, LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC (2 CDS)

Orli Shaham pianoJon Kimura Parker pianoDavid Robertson conductorLos Angeles PhilharmonicPianist Orli Shaham has established an impressive international reputation as one of today’s most gifted soloists and is in demand for her prodigious skills and admired for her interpretations of both standard and modern repertoire.It has long been a dream of Orli Shaham’s to make a statement with American piano music. For Shaham, the composers John Adams and Steven Mackey ‘are at the forefront of defining what it means to be an American pianist today.’Steve Mackey received his first Grammy Award in 2011 and is fast becoming the leading composer of his generation as orchestras and ensembles worldwide continue to embrace and perform his music. John Adams has been at the forefront of contemporary composition for the best part of 40 years, his Pulitzer Prize in 2003 just one of countless highlights. The two composers are separated in age by just nine years, yet come from two entirely different generat