John Adams

Commisioned by the San Francisco Symphony in 1981 to celebrate the inaugural season of the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall, Harmonium sets the texts of John Donne (Negative Love) and Emily Dickinson (B...

Singstimme (Bariton) und Orchester - Vokalpartitur

In the composer's words: 'The concerto takes a kind of polymorphous-perverse pleasure in the whole past century of piano music, both popular and classical.' The original inspiration was in the old pia...

A musical autobiography, this work is an homage to the influence of Ives' music on the composer.

John Luther Adams' Always Very Soft for Percussion Trio. Player score. 'I began Always Very Soft in the spring of 1973 and completed it more than three decades later. Originally the piece was scored...

John Luther Adams'...And Bells Remembered... for five percussionists playing: Bowed Crotales Orchestra Bells Vibes Chimes Bowed Vibes Commissioned by the University Of Wisconsin - River Falls. Duratio...

John Luther Adams' Five Percussion Quartets From Coyote Builds North America. These pieces are drawn from the music-theater work Coyote Builds North America, a collaboration with writer Barry Lopez b...

John Luther Adams ' Three Drum Quartets from ' Earth And The Great Weather'. ' These three pieces are drawn from 'Earth And The Great Weather', an evening-length 'sonic geography' of the Arctic. Altho...

Little Cosmic Dust Poem by John Luther Adams for Voice and Piano. This work features a text by John Haines and is dedicated to Fred and Alexandra Peters on the 30th anniversary of their wedding. Out...

John Luther Adams' Magic Song For One Who Wishes To Live and The Dead Who Climb Up To The Sky. This work for Voice and Piano features texts adapted from the Ammassalik and Thule Eskimo. 'The wild la...

John Luther Adams' Poem Of The Forgotten for Voice and Piano. Duration: 5 minutes. This work sets a text by John Haines and is dedicated to Haines on the occasion of his 80th birthday. I came to thi...

Arranged for B-flat Soprano Saxophone and Piano.

John Luther Adams' Among Red Mountains for solo Piano. 'I've always been intimidated by the Piano. As a performer, I never played it very well. And as a composer I've never felt as if I could make th...

John Luther Adams' Nunataks (Solitary Peaks) for solo Piano. Commissioned by Music Northwest. Duration: 7 minutes. 'Nunataks are mountains that rise up out of ice?elds and glaciers. The jagged contou...

John Luther Adams ' Tukiliit for solo Piano. Composed in 2012. Duration: 6 minutes 30 seconds.

John Luther Adams' The Immeasurable Space Of Tones for Violin, Vibraphone, Piano, sustaining Keyboard and Contrabass. Duration: 30 minutes. 'Number 5, 1950 was Mark Rothko's last painting before the...

John Luther Adams' The Light That Fills The World for Chamber Ensemble (6 players). Score and parts. Duration: 13 minutes. 'The Light That Fills The World' was written in late winter and early spring...

Written and first performed in 1982, Grand Pianola Music is scored for brass, winds, percussion, 2 pianos and 3 amplified women's voices. The piece was inspired by the sounds created in the hallway jo...

John Luther Adams' Five Athabascan Dances for Harp and Percussion. Duration: 16 minutes. 'These pieces are inspired by the music and spirit of the Athabascan people of Alaska's boreal forest. The fi...

John Luther Adams' Make Prayers To The Raven for Flute, Percussion, Harp, Violin and Cello. Approx. duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds. 'This little suite is drawn from the score of a music-theater work...