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  • Nixon in China [Blu-ray/DVD]

    John Adams

    Nixon in China [Blu-ray/DVD]

    The Metropolitan Opera’s performance of John Adams’ Nixon in China, with the composer conducting, is here on Blu-ray and DVD together in one package. The Met’s production, staged by Peter Sellars and first created by the English National Opera, stars James Maddalena as Richard Nixon, a role he originated. The performance seen here was broadcast live in movie theaters around the world as part of The Met: Live in HD on February 12, 2011, ten days after the opera received its Met premiere. "Here, on film, is the most influential American opera of the past quarter-century," says the Financial Times. "Future generations will see Nixon in China as the composer intended."

  • Son of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet

    John Adams

    Son of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet

    Adams's Son of Chamber Symphony, deemed "dangerously exhilarating" by the Financial Times, is performed here by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), led by Adams. It is paired on the album with his String Quartet, which the Philadelphia Inquirer calls "a knockout," performed by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the ensemble for which the piece was written.

  • Nixon in China

    John Adams

    Nixon in China

    The Grammy-winning original cast recording of Nixon in China, first released in 1988, "has an eloquence not since matched," says the Los Angeles Times. This reissue, released to coincide with the opera's February 2011 Met premiere, includes the original, composer-supervised recording on three CDs, plus a 68-page booklet with new notes by Adams and director Peter Sellars, along with the original liner notes by librettist Alice Goodman and by Michael Steinberg, which the Times called "a revelation."

  • I Am Love [Soundtrack]

    John Adams

    I Am Love [Soundtrack]

    Several of John Adams's works surge with new life as the score to the Italian film I Am Love, which was directed and produced with Adams's music in mind. The New York Times calls the film, starring Tilda Swinton, "a cinematic tour de force"; the Times of London gives the film five stars, noting its "sublime score." The BBC calls the album "one of those rare soundtracks that merits—and rewards—repeated listening."

  • Doctor Atomic Symphony

    John Adams

    Doctor Atomic Symphony

    Adams based this all-instrumental work on his opera Doctor Atomic. The New York Times wrote: "[T]he score invites you to hear the music—driving passages with pounding timpani, quizzically restrained lyrical flights, bursts of skittish fanfares—on its own terms, apart from its dramatic context." This first recording, by David Robertson and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, includes 2001's Guide to Strange Places, which the Guardian calls "one of Adams's most impressive achievements of the last decade." The Times of London has named this album the Classical Album of the Decade.

  • Hallelujah Junction: A Nonesuch Retrospective

    John Adams

    Hallelujah Junction: A Nonesuch Retrospective

    This new, two-disc compilation is both companion to Adams's memoir of the same name and an exploration of his Nonesuch catalog. The composer, declares The New Yorker, "has addressed life as it is lived now, and he has found a language that makes sense to a wide audience."

  • A Flowering Tree

    John Adams

    A Flowering Tree

    John Adams wrote his 2006 opera for, he says, "a time of global awareness." The composer drew inspiration from Mozart's Magic Flute and ancient Indian folk-tales; the libretto, co-written by Adams and director Peter Sellars, is in English and Spanish. The New Yorker calls the work "opulent, dreamlike, fiercely lyrical"; the Los Angeles Times calls this "a terrific recording."

  • The Dharma at Big Sur / My Father Knew Charles Ives

    John Adams

    The Dharma at Big Sur / My Father Knew Charles Ives

    Adams calls these orchestral works "musical autobiography," evoking his East Coast past and West Coast present. The Wall Street Journal calls Dharma "a heartbreakingly beautiful work." My Father, says the New York Times, "lovingly recalls the composer's childhood home." 

  • On the Transmigration of Souls

    John Adams

    On the Transmigration of Souls

    This Pulitzer Prize- and Grammy Award-winning piece was written in honor of the heroes and in memory of the victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001. The Atlantic Monthly called the piece “a breakthrough” with “something unique to say to a wide public”; London’s Independent dubbed it “imperative listening.” 

  • Road Movies

    John Adams

    Road Movies

    The New York Times praised the “freewheeling violin and piano work” of Adams’s “traveling music.” The Oakland Tribune says the other piano-based pieces collected here “thrillingly exhibit the kinetic rhythmic excitement that always placed Adams above the so-called minimalists.” 

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