Music & Other Recordings
CDs with: Adams, John
- American elegies
- The unanswered question ; Five songs (orchestrated by John Adams): Thoreau; Down East (C. Ives) ; Cradle song (A.L. Ives) ; At the river (Lowry) ; Serenity (Whittier) / Charles Ives -- Fog tropes / Ingram Marshall -- Madame press died last week at ninety / Morton Feldman -- Eros Piano / John Adams -- Elegy in memory of Maurice Ravel / David Diamond.
- CD 1756
- An American celebration, vol. 2
- A tone parallel to Harlem / Duke Ellington -- Serenade after Plato's Symposium / Leonard Bernstein -- Dramatic overture / Gunther Schuller -- Concertato "Moby Dick" / Peter Mennin -- Orchestral variations / Aaron Copland -- Candide overture / Leonard Bernstein -- Dance variations / Morton Gould -- Medea's meditation and dance of vengeance / Samuel Barber -- The world of Paul Klee / David Diamond -- Symphony no. 3 / Ned Rorem -- Introduction and good-byes / Lukas Foss -- Nonet for strings / Aaron Copland -- Concerto for orchestra / Elliott Carter -- Star-child / George Crumb -- To Vishnu / Alan Hovhaness -- Lamia (revised version) / Jacob Druckman -- Sequoia / Joan Tower -- Tehillim (orchestral version) / Steve Reich -- Short ride on a fast machine / John Adams -- Trombone concerto / Christopher Rouse -- Symphony no. 3 / Ellen Taaffe Zwilich -- Concerto for clarinet and orchestra / William Bolcom -- The stars and stripes forever / John Philip Sousa.
- CD 2414
- Death of Klinghoffer (Opera)
- Compact Disc 1 : Prologue : Chorus of Exiled Palestinians (8:33) -- Chorus of Exiled Jews (8:33) -- Act I Scene 1 : The Captain : "It was just after one fifteen" (8:09) -- Swiss Grandmother : "My Grandson Didi, who was two" (5:10) -- Molqi : "Give these orders" (2:01) -- Swiss Grandmother : "So I said to my grandson" (1:19) -- Mamoud : "We are sorry for you" (1:17) -- Ocean Chorus (5:43) / Act I Scene 2 : Mamoud : "Now it is night" (6:58) -- The Captain : "I think if you could talk like this" (1:12) -- The Captain : "I have often reflected that this is no ship" 2:29) -- Austrian Woman : "I kept my distance" (3:09) -- Mamoud : "Those birds flying above us" (4:21) -- Night Chorus (3:33). Compact Disc 2 : Act II : Hagar Chorus (5:24) -- Act II Scene 2 : Molqui : "Come here. Look" (3:57) -- Leon Klinghoffer : "I've never been a violent man" (3:28) -- Rambo : "You are always complaining of your suffering" (5:12) -- British Dancing Girl : "I must have been hysterical" (4:43) -- Omar : "It is as if our earthly life were spent miserably" (6:45) -- Desert Chorus (5:01) / Act II Scene 2 : Marilyn Klinghoffer : "My one consolation" (5:24) -- Klinghoffer's death (3:29) -- Mamoud : "Every fifteen minutes, one more will be shot" (5:10) -- Aria of the falling body (Gymnopedie) (7:21) -- Day Chorus (4:30) / Act II Scene 3 : The Captain : "Mrs. Klinghoffer, please sit down" (3:53) -- Marilyn Klinghoffer : "You embraced them!" (7:46).
- CD 1755
- Doctor Atomic symphony ; Guide to strange places / John Adams.
- Doctor Atomic symphony : 2007. I. The laboratory (2:33) ; II. Panic (14:31) ; III. Trinity (7:19) -- Guide to strange places : 2001 (22:40).
- CD 3101
- Dr. Atomic symphony
- Doctor Atomic symphony : 2007. I. The laboratory (2:33) ; II. Panic (14:31) ; III. Trinity (7:19) -- Guide to strange places : 2001 (22:40).
- CD 3101
- El Dorado / Adams. Berceuse élégiaque / Busoni ; [arr. by] Adams. The black gondola / Liszt ; [arr. by] Adams.
- El Dorado. Part I, A dream of gold (12:33) ; Part II, Soledades (16:10) -- Berceuse élégiaque (8:09) -- The black gondola (9:48).
- CD 1757
- El Niño / John Adams.
- DISC ONE / PART ONE -- I sing of a maiden (6:20) -- Hail, Mary, gracious! (4:48) -- Anunciación (9:34) -- For with God no thing shall be impossible (1:15) -- Babe leaped in her womb (3:30) -- Magnificat (3:23) -- Now she was sixteen years old (3:20) -- Joseph's dream (4:32) -- Shake the heavens (5:53) -- Se habla de Gabriel (8:26) -- Christmas star (6:45) -- DISC TWO / PART TWO -- Pues mi dios ha nacido a penar (4:36) -- When Herod heard (2:28) -- Woe unto them that call evil good (4:22) -- And the star went before them (2:25) -- Three kings (5:26) -- And when they were departed (1:11) -- Dawn air (4:22) -- And he slew all the children (1:43) -- Memorial de Tlatelolco (9:12) -- In the day of the great slaughter (3:21) -- Pues está tiritando (3:35) -- Jesus and the dragons (2:49) -- Palm tree (7:57)
- CD 2733
- Electronic music. Selections
- Coast (9:06) -- Disappointment Lake (8:10) -- Tourist song (4:28) -- Tundra (10:29) -- Bump (5:07) -- Cerulean (5:21) -- Hoodoo [Hoodo on label] zephyr (10:18).
- CD 1252
- Grand pianola music ; Short ride in a fast machine
- Short ride in a fast machine / John Adams ; arr. Lawrence T. Odorn [i.e. Odom] (4:23) -- Are you experienced? (David Lang, narrator ; Hendrick Jan Renes, tuba) (22:49) ; Under Orpheus (Ellen Corver, Sepp Grotenhuis, pianos) (16:23) / David Lang -- Grand pianola music / John Adams (Ellen Corver, Sepp Grotenhuis, pianos ; Lindsay Wagstaff, Kym Amps, Ruth Holton, sopranos) (31:43).
- CD 1323
- Grand pianola music ; Short ride in a fast machine / John Adams. Are you experienced? ; Under Orpheus / David Lang.
- Short ride in a fast machine / John Adams ; arr. Lawrence T. Odorn [i.e. Odom] (4:23) -- Are you experienced? (David Lang, narrator ; Hendrick Jan Renes, tuba) (22:49) ; Under Orpheus (Ellen Corver, Sepp Grotenhuis, pianos) (16:23) / David Lang -- Grand pianola music / John Adams (Ellen Corver, Sepp Grotenhuis, pianos ; Lindsay Wagstaff, Kym Amps, Ruth Holton, sopranos) (31:43).
- CD 1323
- Guide to strange places
- Doctor Atomic symphony : 2007. I. The laboratory (2:33) ; II. Panic (14:31) ; III. Trinity (7:19) -- Guide to strange places : 2001 (22:40).
- CD 3101
- Harmonielehre ; The chairman dances ; Tromba lontana ; Short ride in a fast machine
- Harmonielehre. Part I ; Part II, The Anfortas wound ; Part III, Meister Eckhardt and Quackie (41:00) -- The Chairman dances : foxtrot for orchestra (12:47) -- Two fanfares: Tromba lontana (Jonathan Holland, Wesley Warren, trumpets) (4:07) ; Short ride in a fast machine (4:24).
- CD 1095
- Harmonielehre ; The chairman dances ; Tromba lontana ; Short ride in a fast machine / Adams.
- Harmonielehre. Part I ; Part II, The Anfortas wound ; Part III, Meister Eckhardt and Quackie (41:00) -- The Chairman dances : foxtrot for orchestra (12:47) -- Two fanfares: Tromba lontana (Jonathan Holland, Wesley Warren, trumpets) (4:07) ; Short ride in a fast machine (4:24).
- CD 1095
- Hoodoo zephyr / John Adams.
- Coast (9:06) -- Disappointment Lake (8:10) -- Tourist song (4:28) -- Tundra (10:29) -- Bump (5:07) -- Cerulean (5:21) -- Hoodoo [Hoodo on label] zephyr (10:18).
- CD 1252
- John Adams conducts American elegies.
- The unanswered question ; Five songs (orchestrated by John Adams): Thoreau; Down East (C. Ives) ; Cradle song (A.L. Ives) ; At the river (Lowry) ; Serenity (Whittier) / Charles Ives -- Fog tropes / Ingram Marshall -- Madame press died last week at ninety / Morton Feldman -- Eros Piano / John Adams -- Elegy in memory of Maurice Ravel / David Diamond.
- CD 1756
- Nixon in China / John Adams.
- CD 2779
- Orchestra music. Selections
- Harmonielehre. Part I ; Part II, The Anfortas wound ; Part III, Meister Eckhardt and Quackie (41:00) -- The Chairman dances : foxtrot for orchestra (12:47) -- Two fanfares: Tromba lontana (Jonathan Holland, Wesley Warren, trumpets) (4:07) ; Short ride in a fast machine (4:24).
- CD 1095
- The Death of Klinghoffer / John Adams ; libretto by Alice Goodman.
- Compact Disc 1 : Prologue : Chorus of Exiled Palestinians (8:33) -- Chorus of Exiled Jews (8:33) -- Act I Scene 1 : The Captain : "It was just after one fifteen" (8:09) -- Swiss Grandmother : "My Grandson Didi, who was two" (5:10) -- Molqi : "Give these orders" (2:01) -- Swiss Grandmother : "So I said to my grandson" (1:19) -- Mamoud : "We are sorry for you" (1:17) -- Ocean Chorus (5:43) / Act I Scene 2 : Mamoud : "Now it is night" (6:58) -- The Captain : "I think if you could talk like this" (1:12) -- The Captain : "I have often reflected that this is no ship" 2:29) -- Austrian Woman : "I kept my distance" (3:09) -- Mamoud : "Those birds flying above us" (4:21) -- Night Chorus (3:33). Compact Disc 2 : Act II : Hagar Chorus (5:24) -- Act II Scene 2 : Molqui : "Come here. Look" (3:57) -- Leon Klinghoffer : "I've never been a violent man" (3:28) -- Rambo : "You are always complaining of your suffering" (5:12) -- British Dancing Girl : "I must have been hysterical" (4:43) -- Omar : "It is as if our earthly life were spent miserably" (6:45) -- Desert Chorus (5:01) / Act II Scene 2 : Marilyn Klinghoffer : "My one consolation" (5:24) -- Klinghoffer's death (3:29) -- Mamoud : "Every fifteen minutes, one more will be shot" (5:10) -- Aria of the falling body (Gymnopedie) (7:21) -- Day Chorus (4:30) / Act II Scene 3 : The Captain : "Mrs. Klinghoffer, please sit down" (3:53) -- Marilyn Klinghoffer : "You embraced them!" (7:46).
- CD 1755
- The wound-dresser ; Fearful symmetries / John Adams.
- The wound-dresser -- Fearful symmetries.
- CD 172
- Works. Selections
- CD 1440