Release Date: 27 September 2009
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 3
Barcode: 730099902274
Genres:
Classical  
Composer/Series: Adams
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Description
A longtime collaborator of John Adams and champion of his music, Marin Alsop directs this live recording of Opera Colorado's 25th Anniversary Celebration production of Nixon in China, presented at Denver's new Ellie Caulkins Opera House during the 2008 National Performing Arts Convention, and featuring an internationally recognized cast.Alice Goodman's epic libretto and John Adams's distinctive music weave together a colourful fabric of actual events from President Nixon's historic visit to the People's Republic of China with intimate examinations of the opera's real life characters.The spectacle, drama, humor and pathos of this masterpiece remain as compelling today as when the opera was premiered in 1987.\[The] performance, brilliantly conducted by Marin Alsop and delivered by a strong cast led by baritone Robert Orth in the title role... Alsop, a proven master of Adams' style both early and late, led a dynamic performance... Conducting the Colorado Symphony, she shepherded her forces nimbly. San Francisco Chronicle concert review""
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Tracklisting
Disc 1
Side 1
- 1. Act I Scene 1: Beginning
- 2. Act I Scene 1: Soldiers of Heaven Hold the Sky
- 3. Act I Scene 1: The People Are the Heroes Now
- 4. Act I Scene 1: Landing of the Spirit of '76
- 5. Act I Scene 1: Your Flight Was Smooth, I Hope?
- 6. Act I Scene 1: News Has a Kind of Mystery
- 7. Act I Scene 2: Beginning - I Can't Talk Very Well. My Throat...
- 8. Act I Scene 2: You Know We'll Meet With Your Confrere, the Democratic Candidate
- 9. Act I Scene 2: You've Said That There's a Certain Well-known Tree
- 10. Act I Scene 2: Founders Come First, Then Profiteers
- 11. Act I Scene 2: We No Longer Need Confucius
- 12. Act I Scene 2: Like the Ming Tombs
- 13. Act I Scene 3: Beginning - The Night Is Young
- 14. Act I Scene 3: Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends
- 15. Act I Scene 3: Mr. Premier, Distinguished Guests
- 16. Act I Scene 3: Cheers!
Disc 2
- 1. Act II Scene 1: Beginning - I Don't Daydream and Don't Look Back
- 2. Act II Scene 1: Look Down at the Earth
- 3. Act II Scene 1: This Is Prophetic!
- 4. Act II Scene 1: At Last the Weather's Warming Up
- 5. Act II Scene 2: Beginning - Young As We Are
- 6. Act II Scene 2: O What a Day I Thought I'd Die!
- 7. Act II Scene 2: Whip Her to Death!
- 8. Act II Scene 2: Tropical Storm: There There, There There
- 9. Act II Scene 2: Flesh Rebels
- 10. Act II Scene 2: I Have My Brief
- 11. Act II Scene 2: It Seems So Strange
- 12. Act II Scene 2: I Am the Wife of Mao Tse-tung
Disc 3
- 1. Act III: Beginning
- 2. Act III: Some Men You Cannot Satisfy
- 3. Act III: I Am No One
- 4. Act III: The Maos Dance
- 5. Act III: Sitting Around the Radio
- 6. Act III: Let Us Examine What You Did
- 7. Act III: When I Woke Up I Dimly Realized the Jap Bombers Had Given Us a Miss
- 8. Act III: I Have No Offspring
- 9. Act III: I Can Keep Still
- 10. Act III: After That the Sweat Had Soaked My Uniform
- 11. Act III: Peking Watches the Stars
- 12. Act III: You Won at Poker
- 13. Act III: I Am Old and I Cannot Sleep
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