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Adams: Harmonium
 
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Adams: Harmonium
~ John Adams (Composer), Edo de Waart (Conductor), San Francisco Symphony Chorus (Orchestra), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra)
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Product details
  • Composer: John Adams
  • Conductor: Edo de Waart
  • Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
  • Audio CD (1 Jul 1988)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: ECM New Series
  • ASIN: B00002473K
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 151,630 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Harmonium
2. Harmonium

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Back in 1981, Harmonium John Adams out as a major new voice in American music, and it's still high-octane listening today. Minimalism with an unashamedly romantic soul, these reflections on mortality have a truly existential dimension! The glowing choral writing of "Negative Love" captures the full-force of John Donne's emotive musings. Adams respects the formality of Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", while the orchestra, with its subtle backdrop of gongs, vividly evokes the death-haunted scene. The setting of Dickinson's "Wild Nights" opens with a crescendo of breathtaking velocity, and the adrenaline keeps flowing until the coda's mood of fulfilled calm; the sense of space here would not sound out of place in Sibelius. De Waart's performance, made soon after the premi&agrav;re, captures the music's immediacy on the wing (a recent account by Robert Shaw and his Atlanta forces on Telarc sadly doesn't come close), reinforced by ECM's open sound-balance. At barely 32 minutes, this disc is short measure, but it's an essential purchase even so. --Richard Whitehouse