The Italian-born composer Clara Iannotta, presently dividing her time between Berlin and Cambridge MA, transfixed an LA Phil Green Umbrella audience last night with the above-embedded work, Intent on Resurrection — Spring or Some Such Thing. It was part of an engrossing and far from conventional program, selected by John Adams and conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, that also included the world première of Annie Gosfield's Refracted Reflections and Telepathic Static, the American première of Chaya Czernowin's Knights of the Strange, and performances of Nancarrow's Sonatina and Lutosławski's Paganini Variations by the adventurous piano duo Michelle and Christina Naughton. The Naughtons have a new recording of Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen on Warner Classical; the disc also includes Adams's Hallelujah Junction and Bach's "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" in the Kurtág arrangement. They will appear at WQXR's Greene Space on March 23, playing the Messiaen alongside a semi-new Adams piece called Roll Over Beethoven (Preben Antonson's arrangement of Adams's Second Quartet).
