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John Adams - Collected Works

Glenn Fischthal (trumpet), Laurie McGaw (trumpet), James Maddalena (baritone, vocals), Sanford Sylvan (baritone, vocals), Thomas Hammons (bass-baritone, vocals), John Duykers (tenor), Mari Opatz (mezzo-soprano), Marion Dry (contralto), Stephanie Friedman (mezzo-soprano, vocals), Carolann Page (soprano),...

John Adams - Collected Works
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There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue...

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John Adams - Collected Works

Glenn Fischthal (trumpet), Laurie McGaw (trumpet), James Maddalena (baritone, vocals), Sanford Sylvan (baritone, vocals), Thomas Hammons (bass-baritone, vocals), John Duykers (tenor), Mari Opatz (mezzo-soprano), Marion Dry (contralto), Stephanie Friedman (mezzo-soprano, vocals), Carolann Page (soprano),...

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There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue...

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Adams, J: Harmonielehre, Pt. I
Work length17:03
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Adams, J: Harmonielehre, Pt. II: the Anfortas Wound
Work length12:25
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Adams, J: Harmonielehre, Pt. III: Meister Eckhardt and Quackie
Work length10:34
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Adams, J: The Chairman Dances
Work length12:31
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Adams, J: Christian Zeal and Activity
Work length10:05
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Adams, J: Two Fanfares for Orchestra
Work length8:25
Tromba Lontana
Track length4:11
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Track length4:14
Adams, J: Common Tones in Simple Time
Work length20:35
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Adams, J: Nixon in China, Act I, Scene 1
Work length19:14
Beginning
Track length2:53
"Soldiers of Heaven Hold the Sky"
Track length2:48
"The People Are the Heroes Now"
Track length2:49
Landing of the Spirit of '76
Track length2:22
"Your Flight Was Smooth, I Hope?"
Track length1:19
"News Has a Kind of Mystery"
Track length7:03
Adams, J: Nixon in China, Act I, Scene 2
Work length24:23
  • James Maddalena (baritone), John Duykers (tenor), Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Thomas Hammons (bass-baritone), Mari Opatz (mezzo-soprano), Marion Dry (contralto), Stephanie Friedman (mezzo-soprano)
  • Orchestra Of St. Luke's
  • Edo de Waart
Beginning
Track length4:05
"You Know We'll Meet with Your Confrere The Democratic Candidate
Track length2:22
"You've Said That There's a Certain Well-known Tree"
Track length2:44
"Founders Come First, then Profiteers"
Track length6:52
"We No Longer Need Confucius"
Track length3:03
"Like the Ming Tombs"
Track length5:17
Adams, J: Nixon in China, Act I, Scene 3
Work length19:11
Beginning
Track length6:13
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends"
Track length6:36
"Mr. Premier, Distinguished Guests"
Track length2:36
Cheers
Track length3:46
Adams, J: Nixon in China, Act II, Scene 1
Work length20:35
Beginning
Track length3:34
"Look Down at the Earth"
Track length5:26
"This Is Prophetic!"
Track length8:32
"At Last the Weather's Warming up"
Track length3:03
Adams, J: Nixon in China, Act II, Scene 2
Work length28:27
Beginning
Track length2:53
"Oh What a Day I Thought I'd Die!"
Track length4:47
"Whip Her to Death!"
Track length2:29
Tropical Storm
Track length4:44
"Flesh Rebels"
Track length3:08
"I Have My Brief"
Track length1:05
"It Seems so Strange"
Track length2:51
"I Am the Wife of Mao Tse-tung"
Track length6:30
Adams, J: Nixon in China, Act III
Work length32:40
  • Carolann Page (soprano), James Maddalena (baritone), Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Thomas Hammons (bass-baritone), Trudy Ellen Craney (soprano), John Duykers (tenor)
  • Orchestra Of St. Luke's
  • Edo de Waart
Beginning
Track length1:10
"Some Men You Cannot Satisfy"
Track length3:17
"I Am No One"
Track length4:01
The Maos Dance
Track length2:00
"Sitting around the Radio"
Track length1:16
"Let Us Examine What You Did"
Track length2:43
"When I Woke Up"
Track length1:20
"I Have No Offspring"
Track length1:54
"I Can Keep Still"
Track length2:11
"After that the Sweat Had Soaked My Uniform"
Track length2:28
"Peking Watches the Stars"
Track length2:43
"You Won at Poker"
Track length3:13
"I Am Old and I Cannot Sleep"
Track length4:24
Adams, J: The Wound-Dresser
Work length19:04
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Adams, J: Fearful Symmetries
Work length28:02
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Ives, C: The Unanswered Question (Late Version)
Work length4:56
Ives, C: Five Songs
Work length9:03
Thoreau
Track length1:56
Down East
Track length2:28
Cradle Song
Track length1:25
At The River
Track length1:16
Serenity
Track length1:58
Marshall, I: Fog Tropes
Work length10:05
Feldman, M: Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety
Work length4:16
Adams, J: Eros Piano
Work length14:53
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Diamond: Elegy in memory of Maurice Ravel
Work length6:19
Adams, J: The Death of Klinghoffer, Prologue
Work length17:08
Chorus of Exiled Palestinians
Track length8:34
Chorus of Exiled Jews
Track length8:34
Adams, J: The Death of Klinghoffer, Act I
Work length45:32
  • James Maddalena (vocals), Janice Felty (vocals), Thomas Hammons (vocals), Thomas Young (vocals), Eugene Perry (vocals)
  • The London Opera Chorus, The Opera De Lyon
  • Kent Nagano
"It was just after 1:15"
Track length8:09
"My Grandson Didi, who was two"
Track length5:10
"Give these orders"
Track length2:01
"So I said to my grandson"
Track length1:18
"We are sorry for you"
Track length1:22
Ocean Chorus
Track length5:48
"Now it is night"
Track length6:58
"I think if you could talk like this"
Track length1:12
"I have often reflected that this is no ship"
Track length2:28
"I kept my distance"
Track length3:09
"Those birds flying above us"
Track length4:24
Night Chorus
Track length3:33
Adams, J: The Death of Klinghoffer, Act II
Work length1:12:14
  • James Maddalena (vocals), Thomas Young (vocals), Sanford Sylvan (vocals), Thomas Hammons (vocals), Janice Felty (vocals), Stephanie Friedman (vocals), Sheila Nadler (vocals), Eugene Perry (vocals)
  • The London Opera Chorus, The Opera De Lyon
  • Kent Nagano
Hagar Chorus
Track length5:26
"Come here. Look."
Track length3:58
"I've never been a violent man"
Track length3:28
"You are always complaining of your suffering"
Track length5:14
"I must have been hysterical"
Track length4:43
"It is as if our earthly life were spent miserably"
Track length6:47
Desert Chorus
Track length5:05
"My one consolation"
Track length5:24
Klinghoffer's Death
Track length3:24
"Every fifteen minutes, one more will be shot"
Track length5:12
Aria of the Falling Body (Gymnopédie)
Track length7:23
Day Chorus
Track length4:32
"Mrs. Klinghoffer, please sit down."
Track length3:53
"You embraced them!"
Track length7:45
Adams, J: Coast
Work length9:11
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Disappointment Lake
Work length8:14
  • John Adams (keyboards)
Adams, J: Tourist Song
Work length4:32
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Tundra
Work length10:34
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  • John Adams
Adams, J: Bump
Work length5:12
  • John Adams (synthesizer)
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Cerulean
Work length5:26
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Hoodoo Zephyr
Work length10:20
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  • John Adams (piano)
Adams, J: Chamber Symphony
Work length21:38
I. Mongrel Airs
Track length7:46
II. Aria with Walking Bass
Track length8:08
III. Roadrunner
Track length5:44
Adams, J: Grand Pianola Music
Work length30:52
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Pt. IA
Track length15:12
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Pt. IB
Track length7:46
On the Dominant Divide
Track length7:54
Adams, J: Violin Concerto
Work length34:05
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I. Quarter note = 78
Track length14:56
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II. Chaconne - "Body through which the dream flows"
Track length11:30
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III. Toccare
Track length7:39
Adams, J: Shaker Loops
Work length24:21
I. Shaking and Trembling
Track length8:25
II. Hymning Slews
Track length5:08
III. Loops and Verses
Track length6:56
IV. A Final Shaking
Track length3:52
Adams, J: El Dorado
Work length28:44
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Pt. I. A Dream of Gold
Track length12:35
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Pt. II. Soledades
Track length16:09
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Busoni: Berceuse elegiaque (des Mannes Wiegenlied am Sarge seiner Mutter)
Work length8:09
Liszt: The Black Gondola
Work length9:48
Adams, J: John's Book of Alleged Dances
Work length28:09
Judah to Ocean
Track length2:30
Toot Nipple
Track length1:14
Dogjam
Track length2:31
Pavane - She's So Fine
Track length6:32
Rag the Bone
Track length2:59
Habanera
Track length4:44
Stubble Crotchet
Track length2:39
Hammer and Chisel
Track length1:11
Alligator Escalator
Track length3:49
Adams, J: John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Ständchen: The Little Serenade
Work length4:51
Adams, J: John's Book Of Alleged Dances: Judah to Ocean (reprise)
Work length2:31
Adams, J: Gnarly Buttons for clarinet & ensemble
Work length24:12
The Perilous Shore
Track length9:54
II. Hoe-down (Mad Cow)
Track length5:46
III. Put Your Loving Arms Around Me
Track length8:32
Adams, J: I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky
Work length7:59
  • John Adams
Adams, J: A Sermon on Romance
Work length3:07
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Consuelo's Dream
Work length4:52
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Mike's Song about Arresting a Particular Individual
Work length3:18
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Tiffany's Solo
Work length4:49
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Song About The On-Site Altercation
Work length2:45
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Song About The Bad Boys And The News
Work length6:20
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Your Honor My Client He's A Young Black Man
Work length5:40
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Leila's song: Alone (Again or at Last)
Work length4:15
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Three Weeks and Still I'm Outta My Mind
Work length5:09
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Crushed by the Rock I Been Standing On
Work length4:35
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Dewain's Song of Liberation and Surprise
Work length5:29
  • John Adams
Adams, J: ¡Este Pais! / This Country
Work length4:24
  • Audra McDonald (vocals), Janne Murto (saxophone), Jari-Pekka Karvonen (drums), Kari Tenkanen (clarinet), Marja Mutru (keyboards), Markku Tabell (keyboards), Michael McElroy (vocals), Seppo Kantonen (keyboards)
  • John Adams
Adams, J: One Last Look at the Angel in your Eyes
Work length1:57
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Finale
Work length4:36
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Harmonium
Work length31:53
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I. Negative Love
Track length10:32
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II. Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Track length9:41
III. Wild Nights
Track length11:40
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Adams, J: Century Rolls
Work length29:11
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I. First Movement
Track length14:55
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II. Manny's Gym
Track length6:22
III. Hail Bop
Track length7:54
Adams, J: Lollapalooza
Work length6:38
Adams, J: Slonimsky's Earbox
Work length13:20
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Adams, J: El Niño
Work length1:51:08
I Sing of a Maiden
Track length6:20
Hail Mary, Gracious!
Track length4:47
La Annunciacion
Track length9:34
For with God Nothing Shall Be Impossible
Track length1:15
The Babe Leaped in Her Womb
Track length3:30
Magnificat
Track length3:23
Now She Was Sixteen Years Old
Track length3:20
Joseph's Dream
Track length4:32
Shake the Heavens
Track length5:54
Se Habla De Gabriel
Track length8:26
The Christmas Star
Track length6:45
Pues Mi Dios Ha Nacido A Penar
Track length4:32
When Herod Heard
Track length2:27
Woe Unto Them That Call Evil Good
Track length4:22
And the Star Went Before Them
Track length2:26
The Three Kings
Track length5:25
And When They Were Departed
Track length1:11
Dawn Air
Track length4:22
And He Slew All the Children
Track length1:43
Memorial Del Tlateloloco
Track length9:12
In the Day of the Great Slaughter
Track length3:20
Pues Esta Tiritando
Track length3:35
Jesus and the Dragons
Track length2:50
A Palm Tree
Track length7:57
Adams, J: Naive and Sentimental Music
Work length44:12
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I. Naive and Sentimental Music
Track length18:10
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II. Mother of the Man
Track length15:08
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Pt. III - Chain to the Rhythm
Track length10:54
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Adams, J: Road Movies for violin & piano
Work length15:32
I. Relaxed Groove
Track length4:54
II. Meditative
Track length5:38
III. 40% Swing
Track length5:00
Adams, J: Hallelujah Junction
Work length16:28
1st Movement
Track length7:09
2nd Movement
Track length2:35
3rd Movement
Track length6:44
Adams, J: China Gates
Work length4:34
Adams, J: American Berserk (2001)
Work length6:08
Adams, J: Phrygian Gates, Pt. 1
Work length14:22
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Adams, J: Phrygian Gates, Pt. 2 (A System of Weights and Measures)
Work length3:24
Adams, J: Phrygian Gates, Pt. 3
Work length7:28
Adams, J: On The Transmigration of Souls
Work length25:03
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Adams, J: The Dharma at Big Sur, Pt. I: A New Day
Work length14:29
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Adams, J: The Dharma at Big Sur, Pt. II: Sri Moonshine
Work length12:20
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Adams, J: My Father Knew Charles Ives
Work length26:26
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I. Concord
Track length9:35
II. The Lake
Track length6:40
III. The Mountain
Track length10:11
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Adams, J: A Flowering Tree
Work length19:12
"Children, / I Want To Tell You a Story"
Track length3:51
"One Morning"
Track length8:41
Kumudha's Prayer
Track length6:40
Adams, J: A Flowering Tree
Work length11:36
“¡Lindas flores!”
Track length2:43
"Kumudha and Her Sister"
Track length8:53
Adams, J: A Flowering Tree
Work length7:06
Audience with the King
Track length2:24
"Mamá Mamá, ¿Por qué nos pegas?"
Track length4:42
Adams, J: A Flowering Tree
Work length21:37
"Serving in Endless Bounty"
Track length3:50
"They Brought Her to Me"
Track length5:37
"Bride and Groom"
Track length6:24
"The Bride Sunk Her Face"
Track length5:46
Adams, J: A Flowering Tree
Work length6:58
Adams, J: A Flowering Tree
Work length14:45
"You Are Cruel"
Track length3:50
"Kumudha Once More"
Track length5:44
"Days Passed"
Track length5:11
Adams, J: A Flowering Tree
Work length6:30
Adams, J: A Flowering Tree
Work length10:03
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Adams, J: A Flowering Tree
Work length14:37
"We Had All But Forgotten You, Prince"
Track length5:43
The Prince Recognizes Kumudha
Track length5:40
Kumudha's Final Transformation
Track length3:14
Adams, J: Doctor Atomic Symphony
Work length24:14
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I. The Laboratory
Track length2:32
II. Panic
Track length14:31
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III. Trinity
Track length7:11
Adams, J: Guide to Strange Places
Work length22:40
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Adams, J: Son of Chamber Symphony I
Work length8:45
  • International Contemporary Ensemble
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Son of Chamber Symphony II
Work length7:44
  • International Contemporary Ensemble
  • John Adams
Adams, J: Son of Chamber Symphony III
Work length7:12
  • International Contemporary Ensemble
  • John Adams
Adams, J: First Quartet I
Work length21:20
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Adams, J: First Quartet II
Work length8:49
Adams, J: City Noir
Work length35:23
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I. The City and its Double
Track length13:47
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II. The Song is for You
Track length9:22
III. Boulevard Night
Track length12:14
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Adams, J: Saxophone Concerto
Work length27:39
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I. Animato
Track length12:28
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I. (Cont'd.) Moderato
Track length9:20
II. Molto vivo (a hard driving pulse)
Track length5:51
Adams, J: Scheherazade.2
Work length47:35
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I. Tale of the Wise Young Woman-Pursuit by the True Believers
Track length15:00
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II. A Long Desire (Love Scene)
Track length14:24
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III. Scheherazade and the Men with Beards
Track length9:46
IV. Escape, Flight, Sanctuary
Track length8:25
Adams, J: Violin Concerto
Work length33:07
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I. Quarter-note = 78
Track length14:45
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II. Chaconne - Body Through Which the Dream Flows
Track length10:58
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III. Toccare
Track length7:24
Adams, J: Doctor Atomic: Overture
Work length5:10
Adams, J: Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 1
Work length26:39
"The end of June 1945"
Track length4:18
"First of all, let me say"
Track length2:15
"We surround the plutonium core"
Track length1:42
"We are bedeviled by faulty detonators"
Track length1:31
"Many of us are inclined to say"
Track length2:26
"The nation's fate..."
Track length2:16
"This is a petition"
Track length2:42
"What if it's a dud?"
Track length2:02
"The test must go on as scheduled"
Track length3:20
"No, before the bomb is used"
Track length4:07
Adams, J: Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 2
Work length15:22
"Am I in your light?"
Track length4:31
"Long let me inhale, deeply..."
Track length6:27
"The motive of it all was loneliness"
Track length4:24
Adams, J: Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 3
Work length30:44
Electrical storm
Track length2:17
"What the hell is wrong with the weather?"
Track length2:34
"Five hundred U.S. Superfortresses are raining bombs"
Track length4:06
"I'll sign the report, sir"
Track length1:18
"With respect, sir, anyone with two good eyes"
Track length3:00
"I have been preoccupied with many matters"
Track length2:32
"Get them out of here. From now on, I'm making my own weather predictions"
Track length4:05
"General, you are bearing up with remarkable fortitude"
Track length3:18
"Batter my heart"
Track length7:34
Adams, J: Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 1
Work length16:50
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"Easter Eve, 1945"
Track length11:59
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Interlude - Rain over the Sangre de Cristo
Track length2:57
"In the north the cloud-flower blossoms"
Track length1:54
Adams, J: Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 2
Work length21:27
"It's midnight, Jack"
Track length5:11
"I've dreamed the same dream"
Track length2:48
"To the farthest west, the sea and the striped country"
Track length3:35
"A delay in the Potsdam Ultimatum"
Track length1:00
"Fermi is taking wagers"
Track length2:16
"I've spent a great deal of time indulging in controlled fantasies"
Track length3:36
"Edward, the test will be delayed an hour"
Track length3:01
Adams, J: Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 3
Work length20:49
Panic
Track length2:52
"This program has been plagued from the start"
Track length1:30
"To keep the weakness secret"
Track length2:11
"I just finished reading The Magic Mountain"
Track length2:15
"The winter dawned, but the dead did not come back"
Track length1:53
"And love, which contains all human spirit"
Track length3:00
"The only saviors are the ham sandwiches"
Track length2:27
Chorus - "At the sight of this"
Track length4:41
Adams, J: Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 4
Work length19:44
"Lieutenant Bush, keep a weather eye on Oppenheimer"
Track length1:32
"To what benevolent demon do I owe the joy of being thus surrounded"
Track length2:42
"That's their signal!"
Track length2:17
"The sky is clear to the east"
Track length2:59
"In the midnight, in the flame-brilliant midnight"
Track length3:06
"Zero minus two minutes"
Track length1:03
Countdown
Track length6:05
Adams, J: I Still Play
Work length5:22
Adams, J: Scratchband
Work length14:56
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Awards and reviews

  • International Classical Music Awards
    2023
    Nominated - Assorted Programs
  • Gramophone Magazine
    Critics' Choice 2022

7th December 2022

There’s no recording yet of his 2017 opera The Girl of the Golden West (you can blame the industry’s economics), but every other milestone since the mid-1980s is here in performances that continue to soar and throb, like most of the music.
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