I Am Love [Soundtrack]
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Track Listing
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112:27
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24:10
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36:50
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46:55
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53:56
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65:03
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73:03
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812:16
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News & Reviews
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"It would be difficult to make an account of all the ways John Adams’s music has influenced me and my work," Nico Muhly writes in his note in the upcoming 40-disc box set John Adams Collected Works, "but in the spirit of writing something personal, I’d like to offer a few perhaps impersonal observations about his work in a more circular, even crabwise, fashion. There are specific places in John’s music where there is a rhyme hidden across decades, relating to an elusive sense of 'meaning' in his music which radiates across his body of work." You can read his complete note from the box set here.
Nonesuch Records releases the forty-disc John Adams Collected Works, a box set of recordings spanning more than four decades of the composer’s career with the label, on July 1, 2022. It includes two extensive booklets with new essays and notes by Timo Andres, Julia Bullock, Robert Hurwitz, Nico Muhly, and Jake Wilder-Smith. Nonesuch made its first record with John Adams in 1985; he was signed exclusively to the label that year, and since then the company has released forty-two first recordings and thirty-one all-Adams albums. “John Adams coming to the label was one of the central events in our company’s history,” says Robert Hurwitz, Nonesuch’s longtime President and current Chairman Emeritus. “The recordings were done in real time, mostly within a few months of a piece’s first performance. Every recording was either conducted by John, or made under close supervision of the composer, who was in the control booth for every album—when he wasn’t on the podium.” Collected Works includes thirty-five discs of Nonesuch recordings and five from other labels.
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About This Album
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, directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Tilda Swinton, "a cinematic tour de force"; the Times of London gives it five stars, noting its "sublime score." The BBC calls the album "one of those rare soundtracks that merits—and rewards—repeated listening."
Credits
MUSICIANS
San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart, conductor (1, 8, 9)
Emanuel Ax, piano (2)
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor (2)
Hallé Orchestra, Kent Nagano, conductor (3)
Orchestra of St. Luke's, John Adams, conductor (4, 5, 7)
Orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon, Kent Nagano, conductor (6)
English Opera Chorus, Richard Cooke, director (6)
Sanford Sylvan, baritone (7)PRODUCTION CREDITS
The Chairman Dances (1985)
Produced by Wilhelm Hellweg
Recorded November 1986 at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA
Recording Engineer: John Newton
Assistant Engineer: Lolly Lewis
Edited by E. Amelia Rogers
Originally Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Century Rolls (1996)
Produced by Wilhelm Hellweg
Recorded October 4, 1999, at the Masonic Auditorium, Cleveland
Balance Engineer: Everett Porter
Recording Engineer: Tom Knab
Edited by Thijs Hoekstra, Polyhymnia International, Baarn, Netherlands
Mixed by Everett Porter, Polyhymnia International
Originally Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Lollapalooza (1995)
Produced by Wilhelm Hellweg
Recorded July 1997 at Royal Centre, Nottingham, England
Engineered by Kees de Visser
Edited and Mixed by Kees de Visser, Galaxy Studios, Mol, Belgium
Originally Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Shaker Loops (1978)
Produced by Philip Waldway
Recorded November 1988 at Manhattan Center Studios, New York, NY
Engineered by Paul Zinman
Assistant Engineer: Nelson Wong
Originally Mastered by Paul Zinman at SoundByte Productions Inc., New York, NY
The Death of Klinghoffer (1990–91)
Produced by John McClure
Recorded April and July 1991 at Auditorium Maurice Ravel, Lyon, France
Balance Engineer: John Newton
Recording Engineer: Henk Jansen
Recording and Editing Engineer: Everett Porter
Stage Sound Design: Jonathan Deans
Stage Production Sound Engineer: Graham Carmichael
Audio Assistant: Susan Presson
Production Coordinator: Kathryn King
Fearful Symmetries (1988)
Recorded November 1988 at Manhattan Center Studios, New York, NY
Engineer: Paul Zinman
Assistant Engineer: Nelson Wong
Mixing Engineer: Everett Porter
Harmonielehre (1984–85)
Recorded March 23, 1985, at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA
Engineer: John Newton
Mastered by Paul Zinman at SoundByte Productions, Inc., New York, NY
Design by Kasia Ozmin
Cover Photograph by Pierpaolo Ferrari, provided courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
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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."
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, directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Tilda Swinton, "a cinematic tour de force"; the Times of London gives it five stars, noting its "sublime score." The BBC calls the album "one of those rare soundtracks that merits—and rewards—repeated listening."
PRODUCTION CREDITS
The Chairman Dances (1985)
Produced by Wilhelm Hellweg
Recorded November 1986 at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA
Recording Engineer: John Newton
Assistant Engineer: Lolly Lewis
Edited by E. Amelia Rogers
Originally Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Century Rolls (1996)
Produced by Wilhelm Hellweg
Recorded October 4, 1999, at the Masonic Auditorium, Cleveland
Balance Engineer: Everett Porter
Recording Engineer: Tom Knab
Edited by Thijs Hoekstra, Polyhymnia International, Baarn, Netherlands
Mixed by Everett Porter, Polyhymnia International
Originally Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Lollapalooza (1995)
Produced by Wilhelm Hellweg
Recorded July 1997 at Royal Centre, Nottingham, England
Engineered by Kees de Visser
Edited and Mixed by Kees de Visser, Galaxy Studios, Mol, Belgium
Originally Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
Shaker Loops (1978)
Produced by Philip Waldway
Recorded November 1988 at Manhattan Center Studios, New York, NY
Engineered by Paul Zinman
Assistant Engineer: Nelson Wong
Originally Mastered by Paul Zinman at SoundByte Productions Inc., New York, NY
The Death of Klinghoffer (1990–91)
Produced by John McClure
Recorded April and July 1991 at Auditorium Maurice Ravel, Lyon, France
Balance Engineer: John Newton
Recording Engineer: Henk Jansen
Recording and Editing Engineer: Everett Porter
Stage Sound Design: Jonathan Deans
Stage Production Sound Engineer: Graham Carmichael
Audio Assistant: Susan Presson
Production Coordinator: Kathryn King
Fearful Symmetries (1988)
Recorded November 1988 at Manhattan Center Studios, New York, NY
Engineer: Paul Zinman
Assistant Engineer: Nelson Wong
Mixing Engineer: Everett Porter
Harmonielehre (1984–85)
Recorded March 23, 1985, at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, CA
Engineer: John Newton
Mastered by Paul Zinman at SoundByte Productions, Inc., New York, NY
Design by Kasia Ozmin
Cover Photograph by Pierpaolo Ferrari, provided courtesy of Magnolia Pictures

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MUSICIANS
San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart, conductor (1, 8, 9)
Emanuel Ax, piano (2)
Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor (2)
Hallé Orchestra, Kent Nagano, conductor (3)
Orchestra of St. Luke's, John Adams, conductor (4, 5, 7)
Orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon, Kent Nagano, conductor (6)
English Opera Chorus, Richard Cooke, director (6)
Sanford Sylvan, baritone (7)