John Adams
Harmonielehre (LP)
FormatLPLabelNonesuchGenreExperimental
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The Nonesuch recording was made on 23 March 1985 at Davies Hall, two days after the world premiere of 21 March. Adams was the San Francisco Symphony's composer-in-residence, Edo de Waart conducted, engineer John Newton wrapped the session in a single day.
Adams took his title from Arnold Schoenberg's 1911 treatise on tonal harmony, published the year before Schoenberg crossed into atonality: a position statement that reattached minimalism to the late-Romantic tradition. The first movement opens with hammered E minor chords in inverted-arch form. The slow movement, The Anfortas Wound, draws on Jung on the Fisher King and quotes the opening of Mahler's unfinished Tenth. The finale Meister Eckhardt and Quackie ends on an E-flat major pedal under a tidal-wave brass climax. Carin Goldberg sleeve design, William Clift photograph.
Release notes
"Meet the Composer Orchestra Residency Series" as front cover header Recorded March 23, 1985, at Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco "Quackie, who is still too young to walk, rides upon Meister Eckhardt's shoulders as they glide among the heavenly bodies. Quackie whispers the secret of grace into Meister Eckhardt's ear." annotation under B2 on back cover.
| Harmonielehre | |||
| A | Part I | 17:03 | |
| B1 | Part II: The Anfortas Wound | 12:16 | |
| B2 | Part III: Meister Eckhardt And Quackie | 10:31 | |
- Carin Goldberg
- Art Direction, Design
- John Adams
- Composed By, Liner Notes [Interviewee (An Interview With) (English)]
- Edo De Waart
- Conductor
- John Newton
- Engineer
- Robert Hurwitz
- Executive-Producer
- BK
- Lacquer Cut By (B1, B2)
- RL
- Lacquer Cut By (A1)
- Jonathan Cott
- Liner Notes [Interviewer (An Interview By) (English)]
- San Francisco Symphony
- Orchestra
- William Clift
- Photography By [Cover Photography By]
