John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine

John Adams - Earbox: A Ten-CD Retrospective (1999) 10 CD Box Set Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 8, 2024

On October 19, 1999, Nonesuch Records released The John Adams Earbox, a 10-CD box set retrospective, representing nearly all of John Adams’s recorded output for the label. The set includes all of the composer’s major works with which Adams has redefined contemporary classical music over the previous two decades. All recordings on The John Adams Earbox were supervised by the composer, and many were conducted or performed by Adams as well. All but four works on the Earbox were originally released on Nonesuch as first recordings. The John Adams Earbox includes examples from every phase of Adams’s career, from his earliest orchestral pieces such as Grand Pianola Music (1982), Harmonielehre (1985), and Harmonium (1980), to the widely hailed operas Nixon in China (1985-86) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1990-91), to works of this decade including Chamber Symphony (1992), Violin Concerto (1993), John’s Book of Alleged Dances (written for Kronos Quartet in 1994), Gnarly Buttons (1995) and the 1995 stagework I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw The Sky.

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Julia Bullock, Gerald Finley, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra & John Adams - John Adams: Doctor Atomic (2018) Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 19, 2024

Julia Bullock, Gerald Finley, BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra & John Adams - John Adams: Doctor Atomic (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 687 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 360 Mb | 02:37:11
Classical, Opera | Label: Nonesuch Records

John Adams’ 2005 opera explores the personal and moral issues surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb. Captured live in concert, it has colossal power and conviction. At its center is Gerald Finley’s commanding performance as Robert Oppenheimer, a scientist wracked by doubts. Having sung it at the premiere and many times since, he produces a magnificently characterized creation. Julia Bullock, Brindley Sherratt, Samuel Sakker, and Andrew Staples are all superb in supporting roles and Adams himself draws virtuoso playing from a truly galvanized BBC Symphony Orchestra. A major recording of a modern operatic classic.

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Simon Rattle, Berliner Philharmoniker - New Year’s Eve Concert / Silvesterkonzert 2008 (2017) [Blu-Ray] Music

Posted by Vilboa at March 31, 2021

The 2008 New Year’s Eve gala from Berlin features the Berliner Philharmoniker under the baton or Sir Simon Rattle, plus world-class singers Thomas Quasthoff and Pauline Malefane in an outstanding all-American program ranging from Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” and “An American in Paris” to Copland’s “Old American Songs”.

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Pekka Kuusisto, Finnish RSO, Hannu Lintu - Sebastian Fagerlund: Violin Concerto 'Darkness in Light'; Ignite (2015) Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 29, 2018

The style in which the Finnish composer Sebastian Fagerlund composes might be described as ‘magic realism’, combining elements of surrealism with factual narrative. Drawing upon the symphony orchestra’s full spectrum of colours, the music reflects not only the traditions of impressionism, modernism and post-minimalism but also reveals the composer’s acute ear for other genres, from cool jazz to ambient music. An earlier recording of orchestral works by Sebastian Fagerlund was described in BBC Music Magazine as displaying 'boundless technical resource at the service of a considerable imagination'. These qualities, and his receptivity towards different musical traditions Fagerlund shares with Pekka Kuusisto, to whom the violin concerto Darkness in Light is dedicated. The title of the work is a subtle reference to a quote from author Haruki Murakami’s novella Firefly: ‘Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it’. The disc closes with the orchestral work Ignite, composed for and performed here by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, under its chief conductor Hannu Lintu.

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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal & Kent Nagano - The John Adams Album (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 12, 2019

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal & Kent Nagano - The John Adams Album (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 67:56 minutes | 1.23 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front Cover

The John Adams Album contains his key orchestral works conducted by one of his greatest, lifelong champions.

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Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal & Kent Nagano - The John Adams Album (2019) Music

Posted by varrock at Sept. 12, 2019

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal & Kent Nagano - The John Adams Album (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 284 MB | Tracks: 5 | 67:56 min
Style: Classical | Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.

The John Adams Album contains his key orchestral works conducted by one of his greatest, lifelong champions.
“Like all great pieces, each time one returns to them and restudies them, I’m able to find something more — new dimensions that I haven’t seen before, other reflections of innovation and genius.” (Kent Nagano on John Adams)

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Christina & Michelle Naughton - American Postcard (2019) Music

Posted by delpotro at March 21, 2019

Christina & Michelle Naughton - American Postcard (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 216 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 146 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:03:32
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

The Naughton sisters celebrate the glorious, exuberant sound of music for two pianists with a programme of American compositions. John Adams’ “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” provides an explosive opening before Paul Schoenfield’s extraordinary homage to American popular music, Five Days from the Life of a Manic-Depressive, with its joyful highs and quieter contemplations. The restless, helter-skelter Sonatina by Conlon Nancarrow preludes Copland’s evocative portrait of a Mexican dance hall, “El salón Mexico”, beautifully and intimately arranged by Leonard Bernstein. And Copland’s “Variations on a Shaker Melody”, extracted from his orchestral suite Appalachian Spring, provides a gentler note to end the Naughtons’ colourful and skilfully performed love letter to their homeland.

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BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Adams - John Adams: Doctor Atomic (2018) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at June 29, 2018

BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Adams - John Adams: Doctor Atomic (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 156:45 minutes | 1.51 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

His most visionary and ambitious stage work to date … Adams’s conducting, second to none in his own music, had tremendous conviction and unique authority, with every facet of the score’s terrible beauty laid bare … thrilling playing and choral singing … Gerald Finley conveyed Oppenheimer’s moral agony with singing of great refinement and subtlety.’ — Guardian

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Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony & David Robertson - John Adams: Violin Concerto (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by SERTiL at April 27, 2018

Leila Josefowicz, St. Louis Symphony & David Robertson - John Adams: Violin Concerto (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 33:07 minutes | 609 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

A new recording of John Adams's Grawemeyer Award–winning Violin Concerto (1993) with his frequent collaborators violinist Leila Josefowicz, conductor David Robertson, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is due on April 27, 2018. The album was recorded at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis in 2016.

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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck - Bruckner: Symphony No.9 (2019) Music

Posted by delpotro at July 10, 2023

Reference Recordings proudly presents this iconic work in a new and definitive interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb quality. This CD release was recorded in beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

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