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Audiences have their own favorites among the operas of John Adams, but Doctor Atomic (2005) has the advantage of being inarguably suited in its subject matter to the dimensions of grand opera: it takes for its topic the detonation of the first atomic bomb, with its first act occurring a month before the event and the second just before the successful test in New Mexico. The libretto by Peter Sellars, largely based on declassified documents, has been criticized as too choppy, but to these ears its shifts are what makes the work: it called forth an extraordinarily varied score from Adams. The music includes settings of poetry by Baudelaire, Donne, and Muriel Rukeyser, as well as the Hindu Bhagavad Gita and a traditional Tewa Native American song. Adams responded with a score that encompasses all these and never interrupts the sense of gathering doom the listener feels. Female characters -- scientist Robert Oppenheimer's wife, Kitty, and Pasqualita, a Tewa maid -- are introduced, and they only increase the variety. The work has been recorded, but this version conducted by Adams may be regarded as definitive. It is drawn mostly on a live concert performance in London that clearly made a strong connection with the audience. Gerald Finley is a gripping Oppenheimer, and all the singers put the text across immediately. You might think that British singers would be an impediment in text that often talks about American national aspirations, but it's not so: what has been called the transatlantic theatrical accent is close to the one singers of both nationalities tend to use, and after a brief suspension of disbelief you won't even think about it. Adams gets from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers an intense, overwrought, kaleidoscopic performance that is just what the music ordered, and Nonesuch patches together the several performances here expertly. Bravo.
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John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
Andrew Staples, Vocals - John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
Andrew Staples, Vocals - John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
Andrew Staples, Vocals - John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
Andrew Staples, Vocals - John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Julia Bullock, Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Julia Bullock, Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Marcus Farnsworth, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Marcus Farnsworth, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Marcus Farnsworth, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals - Samuel Sakker, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals - Samuel Sakker, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Julia Bullock, Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Jennifer Johnston, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
Andrew Staples, Vocals - John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Marcus Farnsworth, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
Andrew Staples, Vocals - John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Jennifer Johnston, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Jennifer Johnston, Vocals - Julia Bullock, Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Jennifer Johnston, Vocals - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Marcus Farnsworth, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Jennifer Johnston, Vocals - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Jennifer Johnston, Vocals - Julia Bullock, Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
Andrew Staples, Vocals - John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Jennifer Johnston, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Julia Bullock, Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Brindley Sherratt, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Aubrey Allicock, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Marcus Farnsworth, Vocals - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Jennifer Johnston, Vocals
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor - Julia Bullock, Vocals, FeaturedArtist
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - Gerald Finley, Vocals, FeaturedArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
John Adams, Composer, Conductor, MainArtist - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Friedemann Engelbrecht, Producer - René Möller, Mixer, Editor, Engineer, Masterer - BBC Singers, Chorus, MainArtist - Wolfgang Schiefermair, Editor
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
Album review
Audiences have their own favorites among the operas of John Adams, but Doctor Atomic (2005) has the advantage of being inarguably suited in its subject matter to the dimensions of grand opera: it takes for its topic the detonation of the first atomic bomb, with its first act occurring a month before the event and the second just before the successful test in New Mexico. The libretto by Peter Sellars, largely based on declassified documents, has been criticized as too choppy, but to these ears its shifts are what makes the work: it called forth an extraordinarily varied score from Adams. The music includes settings of poetry by Baudelaire, Donne, and Muriel Rukeyser, as well as the Hindu Bhagavad Gita and a traditional Tewa Native American song. Adams responded with a score that encompasses all these and never interrupts the sense of gathering doom the listener feels. Female characters -- scientist Robert Oppenheimer's wife, Kitty, and Pasqualita, a Tewa maid -- are introduced, and they only increase the variety. The work has been recorded, but this version conducted by Adams may be regarded as definitive. It is drawn mostly on a live concert performance in London that clearly made a strong connection with the audience. Gerald Finley is a gripping Oppenheimer, and all the singers put the text across immediately. You might think that British singers would be an impediment in text that often talks about American national aspirations, but it's not so: what has been called the transatlantic theatrical accent is close to the one singers of both nationalities tend to use, and after a brief suspension of disbelief you won't even think about it. Adams gets from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers an intense, overwrought, kaleidoscopic performance that is just what the music ordered, and Nonesuch patches together the several performances here expertly. Bravo.
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About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 48 track(s)
- Total length: 02:36:45
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Singers John Adams
- Composer: John Adams
- Label: Nonesuch
- Genre: Classical
© 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2. ℗ 2018 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the United States. Produced in association with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Singers and BBC Radio 2.
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