CD: Michael Gordon, 'Dystopia'

Artists: Michael gordon, composer / Los Angeles Philharmonic / Bamberger Symphoniker

Released on Cantaloupe Records, 2015

Dystopia, the title work on this release, is one of the pieces in the Gordon’s series – inspired by Los Angeles. Gordon’s stated goal for the work is to ‘start at high speed and never slow down, like a ride down the freeway at 90 mph with few detours’. It’s fast, chaotic and loud – with all the energy of a mega-city.

The other work on the release is Rewriting Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony where Gordon ‘mashes’ Beethoven’s 7th – ‘at the time it was written, it was probably the loudest music on the planet.’