Rsnooundjian - Adams: Harmonielehre [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.SUPER AUDIO CD IN SURROUND SOUNDIn this new release Peter Oundjian and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra tackle two seminal works by the American composer John Adams. Harmonielehre, a symphony in all but name, is an expansive, richly expressive, and often breathtaking work. It takes its title from a 1911 text by Arnold Schoenberg on harmonic theory and evokes the lush soundworld of that composer's early tonal period. Also heard throughout the score are echoes of Mahler, Wagner, Strauss, Sibelius, Debussy, Ravel, and Stravinsky. The piece also takes inspiration from some of Adams's own strange and surreal dreams. The Doctor Atomic Symphony, based on Adams's controversial opera Doctor Atomic, focuses on the character of the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as preparations are made for the first test of the atomic bomb. Although played without a break, the symphony falls into three distinct sections: 'The Laboratory', 'Panic', and 'Trinity'. The symphony's concluding section takes its title from the name given to the bomb test site by Oppenheimer himself, with reference to a deeply spiritual John Donne sonnet. This poem is set to music at the end of Act I of the opera and here in the symphony the aria's intense vocal line is performed by solo trumpet. Also featured on the disc is John Adams's energetic fanfare Short Ride in a Fast Machine.

Harmonielehre - Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Doctor Atomic Symphony - Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Short Ride in a Fast Machine - Royal Scottish National Orchestra

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 95115512920

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