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  • Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
  • Conductor: Lorin Maazel
  • Composer: John [Composer] Adams
  • Audio CD (6 Sep 2004)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • ASIN: B0002JNLNM
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 20,189 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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    Composed by John Adams
    Performed by New York Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Choral Artists
    with Philip Smith, Brooklyn Youth Chorus
    Conducted by Lorin Maazel

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5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful memorial to those who died on 9/11, 10 Feb 2005
This is a beautiful and powerful piece to commemorate those who died in the terrorist attack on the world trade centre. It combines an orchestra and two choirs (adult and child) with recorded street sounds (cars, footfalls) and voices reading the names of people who died and extracts from missing persons notices and memorials posted round the site of ground zero.

My perception is that it is a quiet piece, but when it does crescendo, it is like a wave carrying me into the emotion. The quiet and simplicity are deceptive - it is a very powerful evocation of the people who died. It reminds me that everyone who died was loved, and leaves me feeling the importance of cherishing every human life.

One technical point - the piece is only 25 minutes long, and there is nothing else on the cd. I think that this works really well - the music is surrounded by silence rather than being crowded in by another track. However, if you were expecting 60 minutes of music you may be disappointed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A fitting memorial for its time and event..., 27 May 2005
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Adams may have seemed a surprising choice to compose a requiem/memorial to the victims of the New York terrorist attacks. But this piece is remarkable; blending spoken word with choir and orchestra it demands repeated listening. It would have been easy for Adams to compose a piece similar to Barber's Adagio for Strings, often over-used with memorials and commemorations, but he has avoided cliche to produce a unique piece of 'music'.

It could be argued that Transmigration of Souls is not 'musical' in the ordinary sense and will not be performed regularly; that it is an intimate link to those events will preclude regular performance, yet it is still worth hearing even if only once.

The 'live' performance consists of taped 'street sounds' (cars, footfalls) with recorded messages and names of 'missing' individuals played against an orchestral backdrop. This differs so strongly from a detached Requiem, since the named 'missing' individuals and the spoken words of family members are all too real.

Adams has reacted to events that have changed his country permanently with a sincere and humane work. Strongly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Terror Of A Simple Phrase, 19 Oct 2005
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It should be said at the start that this is not "memorial" music as you might expect. Even for the ever evolving and imaginative Adams it is unique. To me it is a stream of conciousness work that involves spoken and sung word, city sounds and orchestra. From this stream the listener will pick up on or latch on to various motifs. It is the words which catch you, hold you and unsettle you. It might be hearing subtlely mentioned the name of one of the 9/11 victims but most unsettling for many of us here in New York it is a few simple phrases. "Have you seen..", "Do you know....", "Missing..", "Do you have any information about...". To many New Yorkers they became terrfying phrases.

In the days after 9/11 hand made posters and notices appeared by the tens of thousands mostly in lower Manhattan but also all over
the city and suburbs. They were put up by family members and friends seeking loved ones lost. Walking down a street one could pass several hundred faces on posters whose opening phrase was one of the above. That I think is where the magnitude of the loss sunk in. Those phrases became etched and Adams use of them still have an emotional pull that is hard to explain. One listens to it all as if in a void where time seems to have stood still. It is a work of around 25 minutes but time does not seem to matter. If you feel that is short measure for a cd I will say listen. It is not the quantity but the content that matters. Besides , what would you ever put after or before this? It is unique and should stand by itself. Thank you Mr. Adams for a truly unique and moving expierence.

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