JOHN ADAMS Conducts Orchestra Of St. Luke's With Dawn Upshaw · Paul Crossley — American Elegies (1991) APE (image+.cue), lossless

Charles Ives
The Unanswered Question (Late Version)    4:49
Five Songs
Thoreau 1:49
Adapted By (Text) – Charles Ives
Down East 2:23
Lyrics By – Charles Ives
Cradle Song 1:21
Lyrics By – Augusta L. Ives
At The River 1:14
Lyrics By, Music By – Robert Lowry
Serenity 1:52
Lyrics By – John Greenleaf Whittier
Arranged By – John Adams
Soprano Vocals – Dawn Upshaw

Ingram Marshall
Fog Tropes

Morton Feldman
Madame Press Died Last Week At Ninety

John Adams
Eros Piano
Piano – Paul Crossley

David Diamond
Elegy In Memory Of Maurice Ravel

Conductor – John Adams
Orchestra – Orchestra Of St. Luke's

JOHN ADAMS : Complete Piano Music (2007) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

John Adams is a crowd-pleasing composer and as such depends on the large audiences of orchestral music for the musical dialogues in which he engages. Solo piano music didn't have the same kind of public when it came out, at least in the classical realm, and Adams has not written a great deal of music for the piano. The four works presented here by Dutch pianist Ralph van Raat are advertised as Adams' complete piano music, and only one, Phrygian Gates, is among his most popular works. The album makes a real contribution, for it demonstrates how Adams nevertheless worked on major compositional questions in his piano music; it is not a "byway" of his musical path. The works on the album date from between 1977 (Phrygian Gates and China Gates) and 2001 (American Berserk). They all in one way or another attest to Adams' success in incorporating a range of Romantic gestures into a minimalist language, a potent combination indeed that is fully accessible to anybody yet never lapses into sentimentality. He translates the combination into pianistic terms, with sweeping passages of repeated figures that ebb and flow as they offer the pianist something to work at. The four works are entirely different in personality, and American Berserk is an especially vivid manifestation of Adams' use of vernacular musical languages -- it abstracts the rhythms and textures of boogie woogie in a satisfying, colorful ride. Van Raat's approach emphasizes the neo-Romantic elements in Adams' music and provides a distinctively Continental interpretation that seems to suggest a continuing rise in and geographical diffusion of Adams' reputation. by James Manheim  

JOHN ADAMS - The John Adams Earbox : A 10-CD Retrospective (1999) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Track Listing - Disc 1

Harmonium, for chorus & orchestra
1 I. Negative Love 10:32
John Adams
2 II. Because I Could Not Stop for Death 9:41
John Adams
3 III. Wild Nights 11:43
John Adams
Shaker Loops, for 7 strings or string orchestra
4 I. Shaking & Trembling 8:25
John Adams
5 II. Hymning Slews 5:08
John Adams
6 III. Loops & Verses 6:54
John Adams
7 IV. A Final Shaking 3:56
John Adams

Track Listing - Disc 2

1 The Chairman Dances, foxtrot for orchestra 12:36
John Adams
Grand Pianola Music, for 3 sopranos, 2 pianos, winds, brass & percussion
2 First Movement 15:12
John Adams
3 Second Movement 7:50
John Adams
4 Third Movement: On the Dominant Divide 7:59
John Adams
5 Fearful Symmetries, for orchestra 28:02
John Adams

Track Listing - Disc 3

Nixon in China, opera
1 Act 1. Scene 1. Opening 2:53
John Adams
2 Act 1. Scene 1. "Soldiers of heaven hold the sky" 2:48
John Adams
3 Act 1. Scene 1. "The people are the heroes now" 2:49
John Adams
4 Act 1. Scene 1. Landing of The Spirit of '76 2:22
John Adams
5 Act 1. Scene 1. "Your flight was smooth, I hope?" 1:19
John Adams
6 Act 1. Scene 1. "News has kind of mystery:" 7:09
John Adams
7 Act 1. Scene 3. "Ladies & gentlemen, Comrades & friends," 6:37
John Adams
8 Act 1. Scene 3. "Mr. Premier, distinguished guests," 2:36
John Adams
9 Act 1. Scene 3. Cheers 3:50
John Adams
10 Act 2. Scene 1. "This is prophetic!" 8:31
John Adams
11 Act 2. Scene 2. Opening 2:53
John Adams
12 Act 2. Scene 2. "Oh what a day / I thought I'd die!" 4:48
John Adams
13 Act 2. Scene 2. "Whip her to death!" 2:33
John Adams
14 Act 2. Scene 2. "I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung" 6:33
John Adams
15 Act 3. "Let us examine what you did." 2:43
John Adams
16 Act 3. "When I woke up" 1:20
John Adams
17 Act 3. "I have no offspring." 1:54
John Adams
18 Act 3. "I can keep still," 2:11
John Adams
19 Act 3. "After that - / The sweat / Had soaked my uniform" 2:28
John Adams
20 Act 3. "Peking watches the stars," 2:42
John Adams
21 Act 3. "You won at poker." 3:14
John Adams
22 Act 3. "I am old & cannot sleep" 4:24
John Adams

Track Listing - Disc 4

1 The Wound-Dresser, for baritone & orchestra 19:11
John Adams
2 Christian Zeal and Activity, for chamber ensemble 10:06
John Adams
3 Thoreau, song for voice & piano, S. 373 (K. 6B52) 1:56
Charles Ives [John Adams]
4 Down East, song for voice & piano, S. 236 (K. 6B60b) 2:28
Charles Ives [John Adams]
5 Cradle Song, song for voice & piano, S. 233 (K. 6B60a) 1:25
Charles Ives [John Adams]
6 At the River, song for voice & piano, S. 214 (K. 6B54) 1:16
Charles Ives [John Adams]
7 Serenity, song for voice & piano, S. 347 (K. 6B60d) 2:02
Charles Ives [John Adams]
8 Eros Piano, for piano & orchestra 14:52
John Adams

Track Listing - Disc 5

The Death of Klinghoffer, opera
1 Prologue. Chorus of the Exiled Palestinians 8:34
John Adams
2 Prologue. Chorus of the Exiled Jews 8:33
John Adams
3 Act 1. Scene 1. "It was just after 1:15" 8:09
John Adams
4 Act 1. Scene 1. " My Grandson Didi, who was two" 5:10
John Adams
5 Act 1. Scene 1. "Give these orders" 2:01
John Adams
6 Act 1. Scene 1. "So I said to my grandson" 1:17
John Adams
7 Act 1. Scene 1. "We are sorry for you" 1:17
John Adams
8 Act 1. Scene 1. Night Chorus 3:38
John Adams
9 Act 1. Scene 1. Chorus of Hagar & the Angel 5:24 John Adams 10 Act 2. Scene 1. "I've never been a violent man" 3:28 John Adams 11 Act 2. Scene 1. "You are always complaining of your suffering" 5:13
John Adams
12 Act 2. Scene 2. Aria of the Falling Body (Gymnopédie) 7:23 John Adams 13 Act 2. Scene 2. Day Chorus 4:30 John Adams

Track Listing - Disc 6

1 Tromba Lontana, fanfare for orchestra 4:17 John Adams 2 Short Ride in a Fast Machine, fanfare for orchestra 4:19 John Adams 3 Common Tones in Simple Time for orchestra 20:43 John Adams El Dorado, for orchestra 4 Part I. A Dream of Gold 12:39 John Adams 5 Part II. Soledades 16:09
John Adams

Track Listing - Disc 7

Harmonielehre, for orchestra
1 Part I. 17:12
2 Part II. The Anfortas Wound 12:24
3 Part III. Meister Eckhardt & Quackie 10:41
Violin Concerto
4 Part I. 14:56
5 Part II. Chaconne: "Body through which the dream flows" 11:30
6 Part III. Toccare 7:40 John Adams
Track Listing - Disc 8

Chamber Symphony
1 Mongrel Airs 7:50 John Adams 2 Aria with Walking Bass 8:13 John Adams 3 Roadrunner 5:52 John Adams Hoodoo Zephyr, for electronics
4 Tundra 10:34
John Adams
5 Disappointment Lake 8:15 John Adams 6 Hoodoo Zephyr 10:30 John Adams Gnarly Buttons, for clarinet & ensemble
7 The Perilous Shore 10:01 John Adams 8 Hoe-down (Mad Cow) 5:50 John Adams 9 Put Your Loving Arms Around Me 8:31 John Adams
Track Listing - Disc 9

I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, songplay
1 Act 1. I Was Looking at the Ceiling & Then I saw the Sky 8:05 2 Act 1. A Sermon on Romance 3:11 3 Act 1. Consuelo's Dream 4:55 4 Act 1. Mike's Song about Arresting a Particular Individual 3:22 5 Act 1. Tiffany's Solo 4:52 6 Act 1. Song about the On-Site Altercation 2:51 7 Act 1. Song about the Bad Boys & the News 6:20 8 Act 1. Your Honor My Client He's a Young Black Man 5:40 9 Act 1. Leila's Song: Alone (Again or at Last) 4:17 10 Act 2. Three Weeks & Still I'm Outta My Mind 5:12 11 Act 2. Crushed by the Rock I Been Standing On 4:37
12 Act 2. Dewain's Song of Liberation & Surprise 5:29
13 Act 2. Este País! / This Country! 4:27
14 Act 2. One Last Look at the Angel in Your Eyes 2:00
15 Act 2. Finale 4:36
Track Listing - Disc 10

1 Lollapalooza, for orchestra 6:47
John's Book of Alleged Dances, for string quartet
2 Judah to Ocean 2:34 John Adams 3 Toot Nipple 1:15 John Adams 4 Dogjam 2:34 John Adams 5 Pavane: She's so Fine 6:34 John Adams 6 Rag the Bone 3:04
John Adams
7 Habanera 4:49
John Adams
8 Stubble Crotchet 2:44
John Adams
9 Hammer & Chisel 1:16
John Adams
10 Alligator Escalator 3:54
John Adams
11 Ständchen: The Little Serenade 4:58
John Adams
12 Judah to Ocean (reprise) 2:38
John Adams
13 Slonimsky's Earbox, for orchestra 13:20
John Adams