John Adams
Harmonielehre

79115

Track Listing

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1	Part I	17:03
2	Part II: The Anfortas Wound	12:16
3	Part III: Meister Eckhardt and Quackie	10:31

News & Reviews

Monday, June 8, 2009

Nonesuch to Release John Adams’s "Doctor Atomic" Symphony, July 21

Nonesuch releases Pulitzer Prize–winning composer John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony on July 21, 2009. A purely instrumental work, the piece is drawn from Adams’s opera Doctor Atomic. David Robertson conducts the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra on this recording. Said the New York Times: "[T]he score invites you to hear the music—driving passages with pounding timpani, quizzically restrained lyrical flights, bursts of skittish fanfares—on its own terms, apart from its dramatic context." Also on the album is Adams’ 2001 piece, Guide to Strange Places.
Monday, May 18, 2009

LA Times: In "A Flowering Tree," Adams's "Blissfully Beautiful Score Enchants from First Bar to Last"

John Adams led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in two performances, the orchestra's first, of his most recent opera, 2006's A Flowering Tree, at LA's Walt Disney Hall this past weekend. The Los Angeles Times says A Flowering Tree "is a miracle opera based upon an ancient folk tale from India. Magic pervades the work’s atmosphere, and a blissfully beautiful two-hour score enchants from first bar to last ... The sounds are magical." In the LA performances, "the singing was exceptional" and the Los Angeles Master Chorale "nailed everything."

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About this Album

Adams’s Nonesuch debut takes its title from Arnold Schoenberg’s Harmony Teachings. The New York Times has called Harmonielehre “a dazzling, whirling crystal ball of a piece in which Mr. Adams at once celebrates and parodies lush Romantic harmony.“