oppenheimer's aria batter my heart, from adams's doctor atomic, combines elements of minimalism with

Listening as his work stretched in new directions, we found we had encountered the work of a significant composer in medias res: the narrative firmly established, but still in motion.

But as we grew older, Adams’s music continued to shift and expand. Having already arrived in concert halls and on compact discs before our musical sensibilities began to take shape, this music colored our first impressions of a musical world.

Below is Wilder-Smith's note:įor a generation of listeners born in the last two decades of the 20th century, the music of John Adams sounded as if it had always been there, a fixed point in a vast musical landscape. It includes two extensive booklets with new essays and notes by Timo Andres (which you can read here), Julia Bullock, Nico Muhly (which you can read here), Robert Hurwitz, and Jake Wilder-Smith.

Nonesuch Records releases the forty-disc John Adams Collected Works, a box set of recordings spanning more than four decades of the composer’s career with the label, this Friday, July 1.

Oppenheimer's aria batter my heart, from adams's doctor atomic, combines elements of minimalism with