Harmonium; The Klinghoffer Choruses
by John Adams
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 1 January 2000
- Label: Nonesuch
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:13:31
- Community rating: 3.67/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A pairing of John Adams' 'Harmonium', his 1981 choral-orchestral setting of John Donne and Emily Dickinson, with the choruses from his opera 'The Death of Klinghoffer'. The works show post-minimalism absorbing the scale and rhetoric of the nineteenth-century choral tradition.
Genres
Descriptors: choral, orchestral, repetitive, strings, long-form
Tracklist
- Adams: Harmonium: I. Negative Love (10:32)
- Adams: Harmonium: II. Because I Could Not Stop for Death (9:41)
- Adams: Harmonium: III. Wild Nights (11:38)
- Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Prologue: Chorus of Exiled Palestinians (8:35)
- Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Prologue: Chorus of Exiled Jews (8:37)
- Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Act I: Ocean Chorus. "Is Not the Ocean Itself Their Tear?" (Chorus) (5:48)
- Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Act I: Night Chorus (3:37)
- Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Act II: Hagar Chorus (5:28)
- Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Act II: Desert Chorus (5:05)
- Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer, Act II: Day Chorus (4:30)
Credits
- John Adams - primary artist, composed by, conductor
- Richard Cooke - directed by [chorus]
- Vance George - directed by [chorus]
- Alice Goodman - libretto by
- John Newton - engineer, engineer [balance]
- Everett Porter - engineer [editing], engineer [recording]
- Karina Beznicki - coordinator [production coordinator]
- Kathryn King - coordinator [production coordinator]
- Sidney Chen - coordinator [production coordinator]
- John Heiden - design
- David v. R. Bowles - engineer [assistant]
- Henk Jansen - engineer [recording]
- Graham Carmichael - engineer [stage production sound]
- Robert Hurwitz - executive-producer
- Bob Ludwig - mastered by
- William Clift - photography by
- John McClure - producer
- Wilhelm Hellweg - producer
- Jonathan Deans - sound designer [stage sound design]
- Susan Presson - technician [audio assistant]
- John Donne - lyrics by
- Emily Dickinson - lyrics by