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This is a splendid addition to the Adams discography, one that follows him from New England to California. Dharma at Big Sur is a concerto for electric violin. It begins by evoking the West's sun and easy living, but this is more than a musical piece of nature-painting. It rambles ambiently for a w...

This is the first recording of Adams's On the Transmigration of Souls (which won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in music), by the orchestra and conductor that commissioned and premiered it. Adams grips from the start, with a slow buildup of taped mundane city sounds, the obsessively repeated word "missing"...

American Elegies...

John Adams: Complete Piano Music...

Nixon in China...

Adams: Harmonium - Rachmaninov: The Bells / Fleming, Shaw...

John Adams - Harmonielehre · The Chairman Dances · Tromba lontana · Short Ride in a Fast Machine / Sir Simon Rattle...

Portraits...

World premiere of Higdon piece, written for Jennifer Koh. First CD appearance of major work by Lou Harrison. Jennifer Koh is a rising star among American violinists who has worked extensively with the two living composers represented on the disc. "A boldly expressive musician." -- Gramophone...

Harmonium is John Adams's breakthrough work. After experimenting with a number of different styles, he settled on consonance and simplicity, and became famous upon the work's premiere in 1981. It exemplifies his music--a listener-friendly West Coast minimalism using tasteful, keyboards-enhanced inst...