John Adams - The Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective (1999)

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Artist: VA
Title: John Adams - The Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective
Year Of Release: 1999
Label: Nonesuch
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 10:58:55
Total Size: 3.4 Gb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD 1
1. Harmonium - 1. Negative Love
2. Harmonium - 2. Because I Could Not Stop for Death
3. Harmonium - 3. Wild Nights
4. Shaker Loops - 1. Shaking and Trembling
5. Shaker Loops - 2. Hymning Slews
6. Shaker Loops - 3. Loops and Verses
7. Shaker Loops - 4. A Final Shaking

CD 2
1.The Chairman Dances
2.Grand Pianola Music - First Movement
3.Grand Pianola Music - Second Movement
4.Grand Pianola Music - Third Movement On the Dominant Divide
5.Fearful Symmetries

CD 3:
Extract from Nixon in China
01.Nixon In China - Opening
02.Nixon In China - 'Soldiers Of Heaven Hold The Sky'
03.Nixon In China - 'The People Are Heroes Now'
04.Nixon In China - Landing Of The Spirit Of '76
05.Nixon In China - 'Your Flight Was Smooth I Hope?'
06.Nixon In China - 'News Has A Kind Of Mystery'
07.Nixon In China - 'Ladies And Gentlemen, Comrades And Friends'
08.Nixon In China - 'Mr. Premier, Distinguished Guests'
09.Nixon In China - Cheers
10.Nixon In China - 'This Is Prophetic'
11.Nixon In China - Opening (2)
12.Nixon In China - 'Oh What A Day-I Thought I'd Die'
13.Nixon In China - 'Whip Her To Death'
14.Nixon In China - 'I Am The Wife Of Mao Tse-Tung'
15.Nixon In China - 'Let Us Examine What You Did'
16.Nixon In China - 'When I Woke Up'
17.Nixon In China - 'I Have No Offspring'
18.Nixon In China - 'I Can Keep Still'
19.Nixon In China - 'After That --The Sweat-Had Soaked My Uniform'
20.Nixon In China - 'Peking Watches The Stars'
21.Nixon In China - 'You Won At Poker'
22.Nixon In China - 'I Am Old And I Cannot Sleep

CD 4
1.The Wound-Dresser
2.Christian Zeal And Activity
3.Five Songs - Thoreau
4.Five Songs - Down East
5.Five Songs - Cradle Song
6.Five Songs - At The River
7.Five Songs - Serenity
8.Eros Piano

CD 5
Extract from The Death of Klinghoffer
01.The Death of Klinghoffer - Chorus of the Exiled Palestinians
02.The Death of Klinghoffer - Chorus of the Exiled Jews
03.The Death of Klinghoffer - Act I - Scene 1
04.The Death of Klinghoffer - Act I - Scene 1
05.The Death of Klinghoffer - Act I - Scene 1
06.The Death of Klinghoffer - Act I - Scene 1
07.The Death of Klinghoffer - Act I - Scene 1
08.The Death of Klinghoffer - Act I - Night Chorus
09.The Death of Klinghoffer - Act II - Chorus of Hagar and the Angel
10.The Death of Klinghoffer - Act II - Scene 1
11.The Death of Klinghoffer - Act II - Scene 1
12.The Death of Klinghoffer - Act II - Scene 2
13.The Death of Klinghoffer - Act II - Day Chorus

CD 6
1.Two Fanfares For Orchestra - Tromba Lontana
2.Two Fanfares For Orchestra - Short Ride In A Fast Machine
3.Common Tones In Simple Time
4.El Dorado, Part I, A Dream Of Gold
5.El Dorado, Part II, Soledades

CD 7
1.Harmonielehre - Part I
2.Harmonielehre - Part II. The Anfortas Wound
3.Harmonielehre - Part III. Meister Eckhardt and Quackie
4.Violin Concerto - I
5.Violin Concerto - II. Chaconne. Body through which the dream flows
6.Violin Concerto - III. Toccare

CD 8
1.Chamber Symphony / Mongrel Airs
2.Chamber Symphony / Aria with Walking Bass
3.Chamber Symphony / Roadrunner
4.Tundra
5.Disappointment Lake
6.Hoodoo Zephyr
7.Gnarly Buttons / The Perilous Shore
8.Gnarly Buttons / Hoe-down (Mad Cow)
9.Gnarly Buttons / Put Your Loving Arms Around Me

CD 9
01.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Ensemble - I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky
02.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - A Sermon On Romance
03.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Consuelo's Dream
04.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Mike's Song About Arresting A Particular Individual
05.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Tiffany's Solo
06.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Song About The On-Site Altercation
07.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Song About The Bad Boys And The News
08.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Your Honor My Client He's A Young Black Man
09.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Leila's Song; Alone (Again Or At Last)
10.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Three Weeks And Still I'm Outta My Mind
11.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Crushed By The Rock I Been Standing On
12.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Dewain's Song Of Liberation And Surprise
13.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - !Este Pais! / This Country
14.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - One Last Look At The Angel In Your Eyes
15.I was looking at the celling and then i saw the sky - Finale

CD 10
01.Lollapalooza - Lollapalooza
02.John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Judah To Ocean - John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Judah To Ocean
03.John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Toot Nipple - John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Toot Nipple
04.John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Dogjam - John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Dogjam
05.John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Pavane: She's So Fine - John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Pavane: She's So Fine
06.John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Rag The Bone - John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Rag The Bone
07.John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Habenera - John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Habenera
08.John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Stubble Crotchet - John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Stubble Crotchet
09.John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Hammer & Chisel - John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Hammer & Chisel
10.John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Alligator Escalator - John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Alligator Escalator
11.John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Standchen: The Little Serenade - John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Standchen: The Little Serenade
12.John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Judah To Ocean (Reprise) - John's Book Of Alleged Dances - Judah To Ocean (Reprise)
13.Slonimsky's Earbox - Slonimsky's Earbox

Performers:
CD1: San Francisco Symphony - John Adams (conductor), San Francisco Symphony Chorus - Richard Cook (director), Orchestra of St. Luke's - John Adams (conductor);
CD2: San Francisco Symphony - Edo De Waart (conductor), London Symphonietta - John Adams (conductor),
Orchestra of St. Luke's - John Adams (conductor)
CD3: Orchestra of St. Luke's - Edo De Waart (conductor), Soloists - Sanford Sylvan, James Maddalena, Thomas Hammos, Carolann Page, Mari Opatz, Stephanie Friedman, Marion Dry, Trudy Ellen Craney, John Duykers;
CD4: Orchestra of St. Luke's - John Adams (conductor), San Francisco Symphony - Edo De Waart (conductor),
Dawn Upshaw (soprano), Orchestra of St. Luke's - John Adams (conductor), Paul Grossley (piano);
CD5: Orchestra Of The Opera De Lyon - Kent Nagano (conductor), Soloists - James Maddalena, Janice Felty, Thomas Hammons, Thomas Yang, Eugene Perry, Sanford Sullyvan, Stephanie Friedman, Sheila Nadler;
CD6: San Francisco Symphony - Edo De Waart (conductor), The Halle Orchestra - Kent Nagano (conductor);
CD7: San Francisco Symphony - Edo De Waart (conductor), London Symphony Orchestra - Kent Nagano (conductor), Gidon Kremer (violin);
CD8: London Symphonietta - John Adams (conductor), Michael Collins (clarinet);
CD9: Audra McDonald, Michael McElroy, Welly Yang, Angela Teek, Darius De Haas, Marin Mazzie, Richard Muenz and Grant Gershon (vocal director), Seppo Kantonen, Marja Muntru, Markku Tabell - keyboards, Janne Murto saxophone, Kari Tenkanen clarinet, bass clarinet, Jari Nieminen guitar, Jari-Pekka Karvonen drums, John Adams conductor;
CD10: The Halle Orchestra - Kent Nagano (conductor).

The John Adams Earbox is a ten-CD retrospective of almost all of Adams’s music written between the late 1970’s and late 1990’s. In 1985 Adams began a long-term exclusive relationship with Nonesuch Records which has resulted in one of the most thoroughly documented catalogues of any living composer. Many of the recordings are conducted by the composer himself, and all have been created under his supervision. The box set includes an extensively annotated booklet with photos and essays by Renaud Marchart, chief music critic for Le Monde, Nonesuch president Bob Hurwitz and by Adams himself. Until the time that a major monograph on Adams’s work appears this document should be the most thorough source of information on his life and work.

Writing about The John Adams Earbox in the San Francisco Chronicle, Joshua Kosman said “The single-artist retrospective, that standby in the world of the visual arts, gets undertaken all too infrequently in music. We hear a composer’s most popular works repeatedly, and the new works when they first appear. But to hear a thorough overview of one career–with the opportunity to detect both stylistic shifts and recurrent concerns–is a rare pleasure. The chance to take such a long view is only one of the many delights offered by “The John Adams Earbox”, a compendium of music by (Adams) who is by some reckonings the most popular and important classical composer of our day….What’s important is the inclusion all in one place of some of the most brilliant, inventive and simply beautiful music of the past three decades…The reconciliation of many musical impulses–all genuine, all deeply beloved but newly reinterpreted–is what gives this music its heady, unforgettable charge.”