Cantaloupe
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a wondrous and tumultuous single-movement work for large orchestra that affirms music's capacity to shift our very state of being...The work combines great formal simplicity...with an almost... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 57th Awards (2014), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Special offer. John Luther Adams: Sila - The Breath of the World
RecommendedThe Crossing, JACK Quartet, University of Michigan Chamber Musicians, University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble
John Luther Adams’s music is like nobody else’s...57 minutes, the work’s gradual transformations in pitch and mood happen imperceptibly, moving from deeply sonorous rumbles to celestial shimmers.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral
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Adams sustains the epic breadth by gradually lowering, then raising, the music’s pitch, and subtly bleeding different colours – timpani rolls, plangent horns - into and out of the cloudy notes... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog
Ghost Train Orchestra, Kronos Quartet (string quartet), Rufus Wainwright (vocals), Marissa Nadler, Joan As Police Woman, Jarvis Cocker, Petra Haden, Sam Amidon
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The interior melodies in the first of Philip Glass’s Etudes rise to the surface like foam on the seashore in Vicky Chow’s new recording of Nos 1-10 (Book 1)...Chow’s own phenomenal technique... —
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Glenn Kotche: Adventureland
Glenn Kotche (percussion)
Kronos Quartet, Gamelan Galak Tika, eighth blackbird
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Special offer. David T. Little: Black Lodge
RecommendedTimur and the Dime Museum and Isaura String Quartet, Timur and the Dime Museum (band), Daniel Corral, Isaura String Quartet
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Opera Recording
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Michael Gordon: Acquanetta (Chamber Version)
Mikaela Bennett (voice), Matt Boehler (voice), Eliza Bagg (voice), Timur (voice), Amelia Watkins (voice)
The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Daniela Candillari
This piece of music theater, about a B-movie star of the 1940s, was smartly staged as a film within an opera at the Prototype festival in 2018. It works nearly as well audio-only, thanks to... —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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The work is all the more powerful for its refusal to tug heartstrings. Indeed, there’s a relentless, almost implacable, unsettling quality born of Lang’s postmodern, post-minimal musical heritage... —
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Choral Performance
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