Los Angeles Philharmonic & John Adams - John Adams: Girls of the Golden West (2024) [Hi-Res]
Artist: Los Angeles Philharmonic, John Adams
Title: John Adams: Girls of the Golden West
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Nonesuch
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:06:38
Total Size: 628 MB / 2.57 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: John Adams: Girls of the Golden West
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Nonesuch
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / 24bit-96kHz FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 02:06:38
Total Size: 628 MB / 2.57 GB
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 1: It was a driving, vigorous, restless population (8:56)
2. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 1: Wagon Ride - Ned Peters was a hustler (5:06)
3. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 2: My name is Joe (11:01)
4. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 2: Now he consoles himself (2:36)
5. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 3: A gambler’s life I do admire (10:49)
6. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 3: Josefa, you remember (4:15)
7. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 4: It's bone, it’s backbone (12:20)
8. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 4: Comin' up from Red Dog (3:29)
9. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 1: The Raven (5:08)
10. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 2: The attack on the Mexicans (11:04)
11. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 3: It seems like midnight (7:59)
12. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 3: What is this celebration to me? (6:58)
13. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 4: This very nearly was the cause (2:45)
14. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 4: Ven esta noche (3:03)
15. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 4: Blessed and praised (1:00)
16. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 4: I'm going far away from my creditors (8:55)
17. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 5: The Downieville mob (5:41)
18. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 5: Tú me quieres alba (6:11)
19. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 5: It's four long years (Lousy Miner) (4:38)
20. Adams: Girls of the Golden West, Act II Epilogue: Sometimes I lounge forlornly to the window (4:52)
Nonesuch releases the first recording of John Adams’ 2017 opera, Girls of the Golden West, on April 26, 2024. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars created the opera’s libretto, drawing from original sources, and also directs this performance. The composer leads the LA Phil in this live recording from Disney Hall. Girls of the Golden West also features the Los Angeles Master Chorale, conducted by Grant Gershon, and a cast led by Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, Paul Appleby, Hye Jung Lee, Elliot Madore, Daniela Mack, and Ryan McKinny.
Girls of the Golden West brings true stories of the California Gold Rush to life. The opera rejects the whitewashed romantic view of California in the early days of the Gold Rush and highlights the heroism, passion, racial conflicts, love, cruelty, and truth during one of the most significant events in American history. Sellars used memoirs and historical texts to inform the opera that has been called by the Los Angeles Times “the most powerful opera of the moment.” The work had its world premiere in 2017 at the San Francisco Opera and has since also been presented by the Dutch National Opera.
Girls of the Golden West brings true stories of the California Gold Rush to life. The opera rejects the whitewashed romantic view of California in the early days of the Gold Rush and highlights the heroism, passion, racial conflicts, love, cruelty, and truth during one of the most significant events in American history. Sellars used memoirs and historical texts to inform the opera that has been called by the Los Angeles Times “the most powerful opera of the moment.” The work had its world premiere in 2017 at the San Francisco Opera and has since also been presented by the Dutch National Opera.