![]() Nonesuch Records has historically had close relationships with modern composers. In September 2022, Adams’s new opera Antony & Cleopatra will open the San Francisco Opera’s centennial season. ![]() ![]() Louis, Cleveland, Zürich, Iceland, Gothenburg, and San Francisco Adams conducted a performance of it by the Cleveland Orchestra and Jeremy Denk earlier this year. ![]() This spring, Adams’ piano concerto Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? tours to orchestras around the world: Seattle, St. Orchestras around the world will likewise present major performances of his works including Cincinnati Symphony, NDR Elbphilharmonie, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra. This year launched with a major focus on Adams’ music in Zürich with the Tonhalle Orchestra, from January to March. In his liner note, Adams’ label mate, composer and pianist Timo Andres, says: “I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that when Road Movies was dropped into my lap as a college freshman, it triggered a chain reaction that led me where I am now … John’s music has been such a constant in my life that it’s reached a base level of my consciousness-it’s part of the way I hear all music now.” Since 2009 Adams has held the position of Creative Chair with the Los Angeles Philharmonic where he has been instrumental in the success of that orchestra’s highly creative Green Umbrella new music series.Īdams also has become a significant mentor of the younger generation of American composers. The LA Phil will perform Girls of the Golden West during the 2022–23 season and will record it for release on Nonesuch. In 1985, Adams began a collaboration with stage director Peter Sellars that has resulted in more than three decades of groundbreaking operas and oratorios: Nixon in China (1987) and The Death of Klinghoffer (1991), both to libretti by Alice Goodman El Niño (2000), Doctor Atomic (2005) A Flowering Tree (2006) The Gospel According to the Other Mary (2012) and Girls of the Golden West (2017). Many of his landmark orchestral works were written for and premiered by the San Francisco Symphony, including Harmonium (1981), Grand Pianola Music (1982), Harmonielehre (1985), and Absolute Jest (2012). Early in his career, Adams was composer-in-residence of the San Francisco Symphony (1982–85), and creator of the orchestra’s highly successful and controversial New and Unusual Music series. Long embraced by the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, instrumental soloists and singers, choreographers and opera directors, his works are among the most performed of all contemporary classical music. John Adams occupies a unique position in the world of music. “In making the box we left a little extra space, since Nonesuch plans to continue recording John’s work.” He continues: “As the record business changed, we realized the urgency of preserving this amazing accomplishment in a physical form the music’s importance to our culture cannot be overestimated and the idea of much of it only being available digitally in the future was difficult to imagine. “The idea of a label recording all of the works of its most cherished composers had been long established in the classical record business, most notably the efforts of Columbia with Stravinsky, Decca with Britten, and Deutsche Grammophon with Stockhausen." With this box, Nonesuch and Adams are now added to that list. “John Adams coming to the label was one of the central events in our company’s history,” says Robert Hurwitz, Nonesuch’s longtime President and current Chairman Emeritus. Nonesuch made its first record with John Adams in 1985. He was signed exclusively to the label that year, and since then the company has released forty-two first recordings and thirty-one all-Adams albums, of which six are full-length operas, oratorios, or staged theatrical presentations. Four of Adams’ Nonesuch records have won Grammy Awards, among other honors. The release includes two extensive booklets containing new essays and notes by Timo Andres (which you can read here), Nico Muhly (read here), Jake Wilder-Smith (read here), Julia Bullock, and Robert Hurwitz. The forty-disc John Adams Collected Works, a box set featuring recordings spanning more than four decades of the composer’s career with the label, is out now on Nonesuch Records, available here.
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