John Adams
Harmonielehre

79115

Track Listing

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1	Part I	17:03
2	Part II: The Anfortas Wound	12:16
3	Part III: Meister Eckhardt and Quackie	10:31

News & Reviews

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Times (UK): Four Stars for John Adams/LSO's "Extraordinarily Compelling" UK Premiere of "Doctor Atomic Symphony"

John Adams and the London Symphony Orchestra gave the UK premiere of his Doctor Atomic Symphony at Barbican Hall Sunday; they perform the European premiere of his City Noir Thursday. The Times (UK) gives Sunday's "extraordinarily compelling" performance four stars, exclaiming that, with Doctor Atomic Symphony, Adams "has created a truly explosive 25-minute piece in which the listener is rocked by a sense of the compacted moral and physical turbulence of the original opera." The Evening Standard gives it four stars as well, calling it "Adams at his heart-on-sleeve best."
Friday, March 5, 2010

John Adams to Lead LSO in UK Premieres of "Doctor Atomic Symphony" and "City Noir" at the Barbican

John Adams returns to the Barbican in London this weekend for John Adams Focus. He introduces a screening of the film Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic, followed by the UK premiere of Doctor Atomic Symphony, with the composer leading the London Symphony Orchestra. Next week, Adams will lead the LSO in the European premiere of City Noir, which, he writes in the Times, is "an imaginary film score, a musical study in cinematic colours and jazz-inflected energy."

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About this Album

Adams’s Nonesuch debut takes its title from Arnold Schoenberg’s Harmony Teachings. The New York Times has called Harmonielehre “a dazzling, whirling crystal ball of a piece in which Mr. Adams at once celebrates and parodies lush Romantic harmony.“