John Adams – Collected Works

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John Adams (Conductor)

Contents

Adams, J:

Harmonielehre, Pt. I /San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart

Harmonielehre, Pt. II: the Anfortas Wound /San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart

Harmonielehre, Pt. III: Meister Eckhardt and Quackie /San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart

The Chairman Dances /San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart

Christian Zeal and Activity /San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart

Two Fanfares for Orchestra: Tromba Lontana & Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Glenn Fischthal (trumpet), Laurie McGaw (trumpet), San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart

Common Tones in Simple Time /San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart

Nixon in China

James Maddalena (baritone), Stephanie Friedman (mezzo-soprano), John Duykers (tenor), Mari Opatz (mezzo-soprano), Marion Dry (contralto), Sanford Sylvan (baritone), James Maddalena (baritone), Thomas Hammons (bass-baritone), Carolann Page (soprano), Orchestra Of St. Luke’s, Nixon in China Chorus, Edo de Waart

The Wound-Dresser

Sanford Sylvan (baritone), Chris Gekker (trumpet), Naoko Tanaka (violin), Orchestra Of St. Luke’s, John Adams

Fearful Symmetries /Orchestra Of St. Luke’s, John Adams

Ives, C:

The Unanswered Question (Late Version) Orchestra Of St. Luke’s, John Adams

Five Songs /Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Orchestra Of St. Luke’s, John Adams

I. Thoreau

II. Down East

III. Cradle Song

IV. At The River

V. Serenity

Marshall, I: Fog Tropes /Orchestra Of St. Luke’s, John Adams

Feldman, M: Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety /Orchestra Of St. Luke’s, John Adams

Adams, J: Eros Piano /Paul Crossley (piano)

Diamond: Elegy in memory of Maurice Ravel /Orchestra Of St. Luke’s, John Adams

Adams, J: The Death of Klinghoffer,

James Maddalena (vocals), Eugene Perry (vocals), Janice Felty (vocals), Sheila Nadler (vocals), Sanford Sylvan (vocals), Thomas Young (vocals), Thomas Hammons (vocals), The London Opera Chorus, The Opera De Lyon, Kent Nagano

Adams, J:

Coast /John Adams

Disappointment Lake /John Adams (keyboards)

Tourist Song

Tundra

Bump /John Adams (synthesizer)

Cerulean /John Adams

Hoodoo Zephyr /John Adams (piano)

Chamber Symphony /London Sinfonietta, John Adams

I. Mongrel Airs

II. Aria with Walking Bass

III. Roadrunner

Grand Pianola Music /London Sinfonietta, John Adams

Pt. IA

Pt. IB

On the Dominant Divide

Violin Concerto /Gidon Kremer (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano

I. Quarter note = 78

II. Chaconne – “Body through which the dream flows”

III. Toccare

Shaker Loops /Orchestra Of St. Luke’s, John Adams

I. Shaking and Trembling

II. Hymning Slews

III. Loops and Verses

IV. A Final Shaking

El Dorado /Hallé Orchestra, Kent Nagano

Pt. I. A Dream of Gold

Pt. II. Soledades

*BusonIi: Berceuse elegiaque (des Mannes Wiegenlied am Sarge seiner Mutter)

London Sinfonietta /John Adams

Liszt: The Black Gondola /London Sinfonietta, John Adams

Adams, J: John’s Book of Alleged Dances /Kronos Quartet (string quartet)

Judah to Ocean

Toot Nipple

Dogjam

Pavane – She’s So Fine

Rag the Bone

Habanera

Stubble Crotchet

Hammer and Chisel

Alligator Escalator

Adams, J:

John’s Book Of Alleged Dances – Ständchen: The Little Serenade /Kronos Quartet (string quartet)

John’s Book Of Alleged Dances: Judah to Ocean (reprise) /Kronos Quartet (string quartet)

Gnarly Buttons for clarinet & ensemble /Michael Collins (clarinet), London Sinfonietta, John Adams

The Perilous Shore

II. Hoe-down (Mad Cow)

III. Put Your Loving Arms Around Me

I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky /John Adams

A Sermon on Romance /John Adams

Consuelo’s Dream /John Adams

Mike’s Song about Arresting a Particular Individual/John Adams

Tiffany’s Solo /John Adams

Song About The On-Site Altercation /John Adams

Song About The Bad Boys And The News /John Adams

Your Honor My Client He’s A Young Black Man /John Adams

Leila’s song: Alone (Again or at Last) John Adams

Three Weeks and Still I’m Outta My Mind /John Adams

Crushed by the Rock I Been Standing On /John Adams

Dewain’s Song of Liberation and Surprise /John Adams

Este Pais! / This Country

Audra McDonald (vocals), Janne Murto (saxophone), Jari-Pekka Karvonen (drums), Kari Tenkanen (clarinet), Marja Mutru (keyboards), Markku Tabell (keyboards), Michael McElroy (vocals), Seppo Kantonen (keyboards), John Adams

One Last Look at the Angel in your Eyes /John Adams

Finale /John Adams

Harmonium /San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Symphony Chorus, John Adams

I. Negative Love

II. Because I Could Not Stop for Death

III. Wild Nights

Century Rolls /Emanuel Ax (piano), Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi

I. First Movement

II. Manny’s Gym

III. Hail Bop

Lollapalooza /Hallé Orchestra, Kent Nagano

Slonimsky’s Earbox /Hallé Orchestra, Kent Nagano

El Niño – I Sing of a Maiden, Hail Mary, Gracious! & La Annunciacion

Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano), Theatre of Voices (counter-tenor), Patrick Marco (director), Willard White (baritone), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, The London Voices, Maitrise de Paris, Kent Nagano

Naive and Sentimental Music /David Tanenbaum (guitar), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen

I. Naive and Sentimental Music

II. Mother of the Man

Pt. III – Chain to the Rhythm

Road Movies for violin & piano /John Novacek (piano), Leila Josefowicz (violin)

I. Relaxed Groove

II. Meditative

III. 40% Swing

Hallelujah Junction /Nicolas Hodges (piano), Rolf Hind (piano)

1st Movement

2nd Movement

3rd Movement

China Gates /Nicolas Hodges (piano)

American Berserk (2001) Nicolas Hodges (piano)

Phrygian Gates, Pt. 1 /Rolf Hind (piano)

Phrygian Gates, Pt. 2 (A System of Weights and Measures) Rolf Hind (piano)

Phrygian Gates, Pt. 3 /Rolf Hind (piano)

On The Transmigration of Souls /Brooklyn Youth Chorus, New York Choral Artists, New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel

The Dharma at Big Sur, Pt. I: A New Day /Tracy Silverman (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams

The Dharma at Big Sur, Pt. II: Sri Moonshine /Tracy Silverman (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams

My Father Knew Charles Ives /Bill Houghton (trumpet), BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams

I. Concord

II. The Lake

III. The Mountain

A Flowering Tree /Eric Owens (bass-baritone), Jessica Rivera (soprano), Russell Thomas (tenor), London Symphony Orchestra, Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, John Adams

Doctor Atomic Symphony /Scott Andrews (clarinet), Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson

I. The Laboratory

II. Panic

III. Trinity

Guide to Strange Places, Scott Andrews (clarinet), Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson

Son of Chamber Symphony I /International Contemporary Ensemble, John Adams

Son of Chamber Symphony II /International Contemporary Ensemble, John Adams

Son of Chamber Symphony III /International Contemporary Ensemble, John Adams

First Quartet I /St Lawrence String Quartet, Scott St. John (violin)

First Quartet II /St Lawrence String Quartet (string quartet)

City Noir /Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson

I. The City and its Double

II. The Song is for You

III. Boulevard Night

Saxophone Concerto /Timothy McAllister (saxophone), Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson

I. Animato

I. (Cont’d.) Moderato

II. Molto vivo (a hard driving pulse)

Scheherazade.2 /Leila Josefowicz (violin), Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson

I. Tale of the Wise Young Woman-Pursuit by the True Believers

II. A Long Desire (Love Scene)

III. Scheherazade and the Men with Beards

IV. Escape, Flight, Sanctuary

Violin Concerto /Leila Josefowicz (violin), Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson

I. Quarter-note = 78

II. Chaconne – Body Through Which the Dream Flows

III. Toccare

Doctor Atomic:

Gerald Finley (vocals), Julia Bullock (vocals), Aubrey Allicock (vocals), Marcus Farnsworth (vocals), Samuel Sakker (vocals) Brindley Sherratt (vocals), Jennifer Johnston (vocals) Andrew Staples (vocals), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, John Adams

I Still Play /Jeremy Denk (piano)

Scratchband /Ensemble Modern, John Adams

Nonesuch Records will release the comprehensive John Adams Collected Works collection, a box set of recordings from the composer’s more than four decades of collaboration with the label, on June 24, 2022. The release includes two extensive booklets with new essays and annotations by Timo Andres, Julia Bullock, Robert Hurwitz, Nico Muhly and Jake Wilder-Smith. Nonesuch issued its first album with John Adams in 1985. The label signed him exclusively that year, and has since released 42 premiere recordings and 31 solo albums by the artist, including six unabridged operas, oratorios, and other stage productions. Four of Adamsʼ Nonesuch recordings won Grammy Awards, among other honors. “John Adamsʼ arrival at the label was one of the pivotal events in the history of our company,” says Robert Hurwitz, longtime president and current chairman of Nonesuch Records. “The idea of a label recording all the works of its most cherished composer has long been a proven one in the record business, most notably at Columbia with Stravinsky, at EMI with Britten, and at Deutsche Grammophon with Stockhausen.” “While most of Columbia’s Stravinsky recordings were made decades after the works were first performed, and many of EMI’s superb Britten recordings were not released until after his death, the Nonesuch collection is unique in that the recordings were all made promptly, usually within a few months of a piece’s premiere.

Each recording was either conducted by John Adams or made under the close supervision of the composer, who – when not on the conductor’s podium – sat in the director’s booth for each album.” Hurwitz continues, “As the record business changed, we recognized the need to preserve this incredible achievement in physical form. The importance of music to our culture cannot be underestimated, and the thought was hard to imagine that in the future, much of the music would only be available digitally.” “In making the box, we left some space blank because Nonesuch plans to continue recording John Adamsʼ work.” John Adams occupies a unique position in the music world. Long esteemed by the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, instrumental soloists and singers, choreographers and opera directors, his works are among the most performed in all of contemporary music. Early in his career, Adams was resident artist of the San Francisco Symphony (1982-85) as well as originator of the orchestra’s successful and controversial New and Unusual Music series. Many of his milestone orchestral works were written for and premiered by the San Francisco Symphony, including Harmonium (1981), Grand Pianola Music (1982), Harmonielehre (1985), and Absolute Jest (2012) in 1985, Adams began a collaboration with director Peter Sellars that resulted in groundbreaking operas and oratorios over more than three decades: Nixon in China (1987) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1991), both libretti by Alice Goodman; El Niño (2000), Doctor Atomic (2005), A Flowering Tree (2006), The Gospel According to the Other Mary (2012), and Girls of the Golden West (2017). Since 2009, Adams has held the position of Artistic Director at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where he has been instrumental in the success of Green Umbrella, a highly creative new music series. Adams is also a major supporter of the younger generation of American composers. Adamsʼ labelmate, composer and pianist Timo Andres, writes in his accompanying text, “I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that when Road Movie fell into my lap as a freshman, it started a chain reaction that led me to where I am now…. John’s music has been such a constant in my life that it has reached a fundamental level of my consciousness-it’s part of the way I listen to music now.” This year, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich focused on Adamsʼ music from January through March. Likewise, orchestras around the world will give significant performances of his works, including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic and Budapest Festival Orchestra. This spring, Adamsʼ piano concerto Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? will be performed by orchestras around the world: in Seattle, St. Louis, Cleveland, Zurich, Iceland, Gothenburg, and San Francisco; earlier this year, Adams also led a performance of the work at the Cleveland Orchestra with Jeremy Denk. In September 2022, Adamsʼ new opera Antony & Cleopatra will open San Francisco Opera’s 100th season. Nonesuch Records has maintained close relationships with modern composers throughout its history. During the Tracey Sterne years, the label made multiple recordings by Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Charles Wuorinen, and William Bolcom. Since 1985, Nonesuch has issued multiple recordings of the works of Philip Glass, Stephen Sondheim, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Shaw, Louis Andriessen, John Zorn, Adam Guettel, Henryk Górecki, Timo Andres, Nico Muhly, and Donnacha Dennehy. As with John Adams, Nonesuch has recorded each of Steve Reich’s new musical works since 1985 and will also release a collection of his complete works in early 2023.

Although 35 of the 40 CDs from Collected Works include Nonesuch recordings, the collection also includes recordings from other record labels: the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s recording of The Gospel According to the Other Mary and Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? with Yuja Wang from Deutsche Grammophon. In addition, a recording by Christina and Michelle Naughton of Roll Over Beethoven on Warner Classics, and the San Francisco Symphony’s recording of Absolute Jest and Grand Pianola Music. The Berlin Philharmonic’s recording of Harmonielehre conducted by Adams is the final CD in the series and concludes the collection, while the San Francisco Symphony’s premiere recording of this piece conducted by Edo de Waart on Nonesuch opens the collection.

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