Harmonielehre

by John Adams / San Francisco Symphony / Edo de Waart

Type: Album
Released: 1985
Label: ECM New Series
Country: United States
Length: 39:50
Community rating: 4.03/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Commissioned by the San Francisco Symphony, this massive orchestral work decisively broke John Adams out of the strict confines of pure minimalism. 'Harmonielehre' dramatically fuses the repetitive, pulsing structures of Steve Reich and Philip Glass with the sweeping, emotional harmonic language of late-Romantic composers like Mahler and Wagner. The ambitious, three-movement symphony remains one of the most widely performed and celebrated American classical compositions of the late 20th century.

Genres

Descriptors: repetitive, complex, melodic, minimalistic, orchestral, symphonic, long-form, virtuosic

Tracklist

Part I (17:03)
Part II: The Anfortas Wound (12:16)
Part III: Meister Eckhardt And Quackie (10:31)

Credits

John Adams - primary artist
San Francisco Symphony - primary artist
Edo de Waart - primary artist