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- 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."
About this Album
The New York Times praised the “freewheeling violin and piano work” of Adams’s “traveling music.” The Oakland Tribune says the other piano-based pieces collected here “thrillingly exhibit the kinetic rhythmic excitement that always placed Adams above the so-called minimalists.”
Credits
MUSICIANS
Leila Josefowicz, violin (1-3)
John Novacek, piano (1-3)
Nicolas Hodges, piano (4-8)
Rolf Hind, piano (4-6, 9-11)
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Judith Sherman
Road Movies recorded September 2, 2002, at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
Engineered by Judith Sherman
Assistant Engineers: Hsi-Ling Chang
Editing assistant: Jeanne Velonis
All other pieces recorded July 28-29, 2003, at Lyndhurst Hall, Air Studios, London
Engineered by Geoff Foster
Assistant Engineers: Chris Barrett
Mastered by Judith Sherman
Piano Rental: Mary Schwendeman (New York) / Steinway & Sons (London)
Leila Josefowicz appears courtesy of Philips Classics.
Design by John Gall
Cover photograph by Deborah O’Grady
Executive Producer: Robert Hurwitz
Also From John Adams
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A Flowering Tree
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I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
October 30, 1998 -
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The Death of Klinghoffer
October 30, 1992 -
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