John Adams - City Noir & Saxophone Concerto

John ADAMS (b. 1947)

City Noir (2009, rev.2013)

Saxophone Concerto (2013)

Timothy McAllister (alto saxophone)

St. Louis Symphony

David Robertson

City Noir recorded February 15-16, 2013

Saxophone Concerto recorded October 5-6, 2013

Recorded at Powell Hall, St. Louis, MO

John Adams - City Noir; Fearful Symetries; Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance

John ADAMS (b. 1947)

City Noir (2009)

Fearful Symmetries (1988)

Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance (2016, rev. 2020)

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Marin Alsop

rec. 2022, Grosser Sendesaal, ORF Funkhaus and Grosser Saal, Musikverein, Vienna, Austria

John Adams - Absolute Jest; Grand Pianola Music

John ADAMS (b. 1947)

Absolute Jest (2012) *

Grand Pianola Music (1982) 

Saint Lawrence String Quartet*

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra*

Michael Tilson Thomas*

Synergy Vocals: 

Micaela Haslam (soprano), Joanna Forbes L’Estrange (soprano), Heather Cairncross (alto),

Orli Shaham (piano), Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

John Adams

rec. live May 2013 (Absolute Jest); January 2015 (Grand Pianola Music); Davies Symphony Hall, 

San Francisco, USA

Alan Feinberg - The American Innovator (Adams, Ives, Cowell, Nacarrow, Cage)

The American Innovator

Alan Feinberg (piano)

Works by:

John ADAMS (b.1947)

China Gates

Milton Byron BABBITT(1916–2011)

It Takes Twelve to Tango

Playing For Time

John CAGE (1912–92)

Bacchanale

Henry COWELL (1897–1965)

Aeolian Harp

Exultation

Vestiges

Ruth CRAWFORD SEEGER (1901–53)

Piano Study in Mixed Accents

Mario DAVIDOVSKY (1934–2019)

Synchronisms No. 6 for Piano and Electronic Sounds

Charles Tomlinson GRIFFES (1884–1920)

The Fountain of the Acqua Paola

The White Peacock

John HARBISON (b.1938)

Tango, Seen From Ground Level, For Milo

Charles IVES (1874–1954)

Study No. 20

Thelonious Sphere MONK(1917–82)

Ruby, My Dear

Conlon NANCARROW(1912–97)

Prelude

Leo ORNSTEIN (1892–2002)

À la Chinoise, Op. 39

Ralph SHAPEY (1921–2002)

Seven

Recorded: 1992-03-28

Recording Venue: BMG Studio C, New York

John Adams - My Father Knew Charles Ives; Harmonielehre

John ADAMS (b. 1947)

My Father Knew Charles Ives (2003)

Harmonielehre (1985)

Nashville Symphony

Giancarlo Guerrero

rec. October 2018 and October 2019, Laura Turner Concert Hall, Nashville, USA

John Adams - A Flowering Tree

John ADAMS (b.1947)

A Flowering Tree

An Opera in Two Acts

Libretto by John Adams and Peter Sellars

adapted from the Indian folktale and poetry

in translations by A.K.Ramanujan

Jessica Rivera (Soprano)

Russell Thomas (Tenor)

Eric Owens (Bass-Baritone)

London Symphony Orchestra

Schola Cantorum de Venezuela

Conducted by John Adams

Recorded live at the Barbican Center in London

John Adams - Harmonielehre; The Chairman Dances and other Works

John ADAMS (b.1947)

Harmonielehre

The Chairman Dances

Tromba Lontana

Short Ride in a Fast Machine

City of Birmingham Symphony OrchestraSimon Rattle

Recording Venue: 4, 6, 8 & 9 July 1993, Symphony Hall, Birmingham

John Adams - I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky

 

John ADAMS (b.1947)
 I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky

Libretto by June Jordan (1936-2002)

Soloists
The Band of Holst-Sinfonietta

Klaus Simon

John Adams - Violin Concerto and works by Corigliano, Enescu and Waxman

John Corigliano (b. 1938): Chaconne from The Red Violin

George Enescu (1881-1955): Romanian Rhapsody No.1, arr. Waxman

Franz Waxman (1906-1967): Tristan and Isolde Fantasia

John Adams (b. 1947): Violin Concerto

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Leonard Slatkin

Chloe Hanslip; Charles Owen