John Luther Adams: Sila - The Breath of the World
The Crossing, JACK Quartet, University of Michigan Chamber Musicians, University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble
Awards:
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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
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....
John Luther Adams: Sila - The Breath of the World
The Crossing, JACK Quartet, University of Michigan Chamber Musicians, University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble
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Awards:
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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
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....
About
Acclaimed by the New York Times as "an alluring, mystical new work" when it premiered outdoors at the city's Lincoln Center in July 2014, John Luther Adams' large-scale Sila: the Breath of the World is so carefully orchestrated that the recording itself pushes the limits of how to capture multiple ensembles of musicians in one setting. Thanks to modern technology and the magic of multi-tracking (with producers Doug Perkins and Nathaniel Reichman at the controls), Sila maintains the composer's vision as a grandinvitation to the listener "to stop and listen more deeply."
Contents and tracklist
- The Crossing, JACK Quartet, University of Michigan Chamber Musicians, University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineDecember 2022Choral & Song Choice
December 2022
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. With a stellar line-up of performers and crystal-clear recording quality, this is a profoundly arresting album.
December 2022
The effect is haunting, mesmeric as the chords ebb and flow between the choirs, changing colours, gradually moving from the depths towards the sky.
December 2022
Sila is a work of the deepest humanity and the kind of simplicity of method only achieved by masters of their art. If you are going to listen to just one piece of contemporary music make it this one.
