CD, Adams, J (composer)
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New. My American Story – North
RecommendedDaniil Trifonov (piano), The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Bates's concerto is an ideal microcosm of the ideas at play in the album as a whole, variously hinting at the genres of jazz, film music and minimalism that Trifonov has performed earlier, whilst... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th October 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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Special offer. John Adams: Girls of the Golden West
RecommendedJulia Bullock (Dame Shirley), Ryan McKinny (Clarence), Davone Tines (Ned Peters), Hye Jung Lee (Ah Sing), Daniela Mack (Josef Segovia), Paul Appleby (Joe Cannon), Elliot Madore (Ramón)
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale, John Adams
The influence of Ives can be heard in the shifting layers; once a funeral march, now a Fourth of July celebration. As Dame Shirley, Julia Bullock is on scintillating form, particularly as she... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Opera Choice
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International Opera Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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It makes for an earcatching excursion celebrating the heady pluralism of American music...Together they forge a formidable partnership, technically fearless and equally at home in the different... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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The inspiration of Stravinsky’s Chant du Rossignol is never far away in this [Slonimsky’s Earbox], and sometimes overt in the harmonic and melodic shapes. There’s more for the orchestra to get... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Special offer. John Adams: City Noir, Fearful Symmetries & Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance
RecommendedORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop
In every respect, this disc is a must for all fans of John Adams and Marin Alsop. The performances and recording are terrific, and the programme provides a good range of the composer’s style…... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Orchestral Performance
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2024
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The tracks for voice and piano are a highlight. Bullock’s performance of ‘City Called Heaven’, a traditional Black spiritual in an arrangement by Hall Johnson, is quite something...The jazz-based... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, 7th January 2023, Record of the Week
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year, Solo Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Winner - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Vocal Music
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Vocal
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John Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music & Absolute Jest
Doric String Quartet, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Peter Oundjian
The RSNO’s playing captures all the delicacy, grandeur and zing of Adams’s complex score, while the Doric String Quartet brings sumptuous sweetness and laser-like clarity to its solo part…There... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Orchestral
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Adams: Harmonielehre & Short Ride in a Fast Machine
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas
More than in previous recordings, Michael Tilson Thomas's superbly paced approach conveys the music's sense of vast surrounding spaces, and the momentum of the biggest passages is the more thrilling... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 55th Awards (2012), Best Orchestral Performance
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another stimulating and imaginatively curated programme of short pieces and improvisations, going back and forth between various acoustic and electronic keyboards. — More…
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Special offer. Adams: Violin Concerto, Corigliano: Red Violin 'Chaconne'
RecommendedChloë Hanslip (violin) & Charles Owen (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
It's excellent sense to couple John Adams's Violin Concerto with John Corigliano's Chaconne based on his film music for The Red Violin. Both require bravura of the highest order… This is the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th August 2008
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