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Is John Adams’ El Niño the Christmas oratorio of our time? The composer admits that in his youth he wanted to write a Messiah, and
It’s understandable that Nonesuch would hold the release of John Adams’ massive Naïve and Sentimental Music (recorded in 1999) in favor of the more recent
Robert Shaw’s reading of Harmonium is quite lush, luxuriating in the score’s shimmering harmonic contours. Full-bodied, sonorous singing from the Atlanta Symphony Chorus illuminates Adams’
Century Rolls is a piano concerto composed in 1996 for Emmanuel Ax and the Cleveland orchestra. Adams’ inspiration came while listening to recordings of player-pianos,
Minimalist is the title selected for this entry-level issue devoted to the works of several prominent contemporary composers, each of whom belongs to the so-called
John Adams is perhaps the only minimalist left who is still coming up with good ideas. At the very least he has demonstrated that there
This CD presents two violin concertos written within the past 20 years. The Adams work is the most recent, dating from 1993, after the composer
