 | On the Transmigration of Souls by John Adams
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $3.25 His masterpiece
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 | Nixon in China by John Adams
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $16.54 A classic- proves why Adams is the best opera composer since Britten
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 | Fearful Symmetries/The Wound-Dresser
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $2.75 Two very different sides of this hughely creative artist
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 | Century Rolls
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $4.98 A Knockout Disc
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 | Adams: Harmonium
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.40 My personal favorite work of Adams
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 | Naive & Sentimental Music by John Adams
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $5.93 Mixed feelings on this one- "Mother to the Man" is gorgeous, though
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 | Road Movies
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $5.60 A look at his chamber music- fodder for Shaker Loops, the Book of Alleged Dances, and Century Rolls
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 | Chamber Symphony: Grand Pianola
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $12.52 Very unique take on postmodernism
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 | John Adams - The Death of Klinghoffer / Nagano, The Orchestra of the Opera de Lyon by John Adams
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $12.39 Not as good as "Nixon" (I'm in the minority on this one)
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 | Gnarly Buttons/Alleged Dances
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $4.89 Gnarly Buttons is a hilarious and heartbreaking autobiographical work
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 | Hoodoo Zephyr
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.99 Don't assume that a John Adams synthesizer album will be cheesy- it's far from it
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 | I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky by John Adams
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.80 Adams tests his Broadway mettle (with success, I might add)
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 | John Adams: The Chairman Dances
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $4.88 Some early albeit beautiful music here by Adams
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 | American Elegies
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.00 Eros Piano is an unfairly neglected tribute to Bill Evans and Toru Takemitsu
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 | John Adams - El Nino / Hunt-Lieberson, Upshaw, W. White, Nagano
Buy new: $31.98 / Used from: $9.95 Overrated
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 | Adams: Violin Concerto/Shaker Loops
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.98 An example where good craft does not guarantee compelling music
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 | John Adams: Shaker Loops: Light Over Water
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $5.10 Light Over Water- A rather dull curio
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 | The John Adams Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective
Buy new: $99.98 / Used from: $76.30 Save money and buy the whole set
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 | John Luther Adams - In the White Silence
Buy new: $17.99 While I've got your attention, this is a different John Adams, but also a very talented composer, of "sonic landscapes"
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 | Fog Tropes/Gradual Requiem
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $10.44 A close friend of John (non-Luther) Adams, he writes fiercely unique music
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