Collected Works

~ Release by John Adams (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

1▶Digital Media: Harmonielehre
2▶Digital Media: The Chairman Dances
3▶Digital Media: Nixon in China: Act I
4▶Digital Media: Nixon in China: Act II
5▶Digital Media: Nixon in China: Act III
6▶Digital Media: The Wound Dresser / Fearful Symmetries
7▶Digital Media: American Elegies
8▶Digital Media: The Death of Klinghoffer: Act I
9▶Digital Media: The Death of Klinghoffer: Act II
10▶Digital Media: Hoodoo Zephyr
11▶Digital Media: Chamber Symphony / Grand Pianola Music
12▶Digital Media: Violin Concerto / Shaker Loops
13▶Digital Media: El Dorado
14▶Digital Media: John's Book of Alleged Dances / Gnarly Buttons
15▶Digital Media: I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
16▶Digital Media: Harmonium / The Death of Klinghoffer Choruses
17▶Digital Media: Century Rolls
18▶Digital Media: El Niño
19▶Digital Media: El Niño
20▶Digital Media: Naive and Sentimental Music
21▶Digital Media: Road Movies
22▶Digital Media: On the Transmigration of Souls
23▶Digital Media: The Dharma at Big Sur
24▶Digital Media: My Father Knew Charles Ives
25▶Digital Media: A Flowering Tree
26▶Digital Media: A Flowering Tree
27▶Digital Media: Doctor Atomic Symphony
28▶Digital Media: Son of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet
29▶Digital Media: The Gospel According to the Other Mary
30▶Digital Media: The Gospel According to the Other Mary
31▶Digital Media: City Noir / Saxophone Concerto
32▶Digital Media: Scheherazade.2
33▶Digital Media: Violin Concerto
34▶Digital Media: Doctor Atomic
35▶Digital Media: Doctor Atomic
36▶Digital Media: Roll Over Beethoven / I Still Play / Scratchband
37▶Digital Media: Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?
38▼Digital Media: Absolute Jest
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1Absolute Jest: I. Beginning
cello:
Christopher Costanza
strings:
St. Lawrence String Quartet (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
viola:
Lesley Robertson (violist)
violin:
Geoff Nuttall (violinist) and Scott St. John (violinist/violist)
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor and pianist) (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
partial recording of:
Absolute Jest (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 2012)
part of:
Unofficial catalog of the works of John Adam (number: 2)
10:35
2Absolute Jest: II. Presto
cello:
Christopher Costanza
strings:
St. Lawrence String Quartet (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
viola:
Lesley Robertson (violist)
violin:
Geoff Nuttall (violinist) and Scott St. John (violinist/violist)
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor and pianist) (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
partial recording of:
Absolute Jest (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 2012)
part of:
Unofficial catalog of the works of John Adam (number: 2)
3:31
3Absolute Jest: III. Lo stesso tempo
cello:
Christopher Costanza
strings:
St. Lawrence String Quartet (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
viola:
Lesley Robertson (violist)
violin:
Geoff Nuttall (violinist) and Scott St. John (violinist/violist)
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor and pianist) (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
partial recording of:
Absolute Jest (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 2012)
part of:
Unofficial catalog of the works of John Adam (number: 2)
1:08
4Absolute Jest: IV. Meno mosso
cello:
Christopher Costanza
strings:
St. Lawrence String Quartet (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
viola:
Lesley Robertson (violist)
violin:
Geoff Nuttall (violinist) and Scott St. John (violinist/violist)
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor and pianist) (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
partial recording of:
Absolute Jest (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 2012)
part of:
Unofficial catalog of the works of John Adam (number: 2)
3:18
5Absolute Jest: V. Vivacissimo
cello:
Christopher Costanza
strings:
St. Lawrence String Quartet (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
viola:
Lesley Robertson (violist)
violin:
Geoff Nuttall (violinist) and Scott St. John (violinist/violist)
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor and pianist) (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
partial recording of:
Absolute Jest (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 2012)
part of:
Unofficial catalog of the works of John Adam (number: 2)
1:49
6Absolute Jest: VI. Prestissimo
cello:
Christopher Costanza
strings:
St. Lawrence String Quartet (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
viola:
Lesley Robertson (violist)
violin:
Geoff Nuttall (violinist) and Scott St. John (violinist/violist)
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
conductor:
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor and pianist) (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
partial recording of:
Absolute Jest (from 2013-05-04 until 2013-05-09)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 2012)
part of:
Unofficial catalog of the works of John Adam (number: 2)
5:20
7Grand Pianola Music: Pt. 1
piano:
Marc‐André Hamelin (Canadian pianist) (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18) and Orli Shaham (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
vocals:
Synergy Vocals (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
conductor:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
recorded at:
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California, United States (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
partial recording of:
Grand Pianola Music: I. / II. (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 1982)
part of:
Grand Pianola Music
15:24
8Grand Pianola Music: Pt. 1. Slow
piano:
Marc‐André Hamelin (Canadian pianist) (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18) and Orli Shaham (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
vocals:
Synergy Vocals (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
conductor:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
recorded at:
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California, United States (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
partial recording of:
Grand Pianola Music: I. / II. (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 1982)
part of:
Grand Pianola Music
7:46
9Grand Pianola Music: Pt. 2. On the Dominant Divide
piano:
Marc‐André Hamelin (Canadian pianist) (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18) and Orli Shaham (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
vocals:
Synergy Vocals (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
orchestra:
San Francisco Symphony (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
conductor:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
recorded at:
Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California, United States (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
recording of:
Grand Pianola Music: III. “On the Dominant Divide” (from 2015-01-16 until 2015-01-18)
composer:
John Adams (American minimalist composer) (in 1982)
part of:
Grand Pianola Music
8:40
39▶Digital Media: Harmonielehre