John Adams - Collected Works
John Adams
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... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards2023Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Gramophone MagazineCritics' Choice 2022
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Adams, J: Harmonielehre, Pt. I
- San Francisco Symphony
- Edo de Waart
Adams, J: Harmonielehre, Pt. II: the Anfortas Wound
- San Francisco Symphony
- Edo de Waart
Adams, J: Harmonielehre, Pt. III: Meister Eckhardt and Quackie
- San Francisco Symphony
- Edo de Waart
Adams, J: The Chairman Dances
- San Francisco Symphony
- Edo de Waart
Adams, J: Christian Zeal and Activity
- San Francisco Symphony
- Edo de Waart
Adams, J: Two Fanfares for Orchestra
- Glenn Fischthal (trumpet), Laurie McGaw (trumpet)
- San Francisco Symphony
- Edo de Waart
Tromba Lontana
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Adams, J: Common Tones in Simple Time
- San Francisco Symphony
- Edo de Waart
Adams, J: Nixon in China, Act I, Scene 1
- James Maddalena (baritone), Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Thomas Hammons (bass-baritone)
- Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Nixon in China Chorus
- Edo de Waart
Beginning
"Soldiers of Heaven Hold the Sky"
"The People Are the Heroes Now"
Landing of the Spirit of '76
"Your Flight Was Smooth, I Hope?"
"News Has a Kind of Mystery"
Adams, J: Nixon in China, Act I, Scene 2
- James Maddalena (baritone), John Duykers (tenor), Mari Opatz (mezzo-soprano), Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Marion Dry (contralto), Thomas Hammons (bass-baritone), Stephanie Friedman (mezzo-soprano)
- Orchestra Of St. Luke's
- Edo de Waart
Beginning
"You Know We'll Meet with Your Confrere The Democratic Candidate
"You've Said That There's a Certain Well-known Tree"
"Founders Come First, then Profiteers"
"We No Longer Need Confucius"
"Like the Ming Tombs"
Adams, J: Nixon in China, Act I, Scene 3
- Carolann Page (soprano), James Maddalena (baritone), Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Thomas Hammons (bass-baritone)
- Orchestra Of St. Luke's
- Edo de Waart
Beginning
"Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends"
"Mr. Premier, Distinguished Guests"
Cheers