John Adams

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.

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: Dark Waves for two Pianos and Electronics (included as a download). Duration: 12 minutes. 'As I composed this music, I pondered the ominous events of our times: terrorism and war,...

John Luther Adams' Dark Wind for instrumental quartet (Bass Clarinet, Piano, Marimba and Vibraphone). Score and parts. Dedicated to Marty Walker.

John Luther Adams' The Farthest Place for Vibraphone, Marimba, Piano, Violin and Double Bass. Score and parts. Duration: 11 minutes.

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...

John Luther Adams' Night Peace for antiphonal chorus (SATB), solo Soprano, Harp and Percussion. 'Night Peace is based entirely on a single melodic line, which is heard only once, sung by the solo Sop...

John Luther Adams' Night Peace for antiphonal chorus (SATB), solo Soprano, Harp and Percussion. 'Night Peace is based entirely on a single melodic line, which is heard only once, sung by the solo Sop...

John Luther Adams' Four Thousand Holes for Piano, Percussion (Vibraphone and Orchestra Bells) and Electronic Aura. Composed in 2010 and dedicated to Stephen Drury. Duration: 32 minutes 30 seconds. 'F...

This work 3 Amplified Women's Voices, 2 Pianos, Percussion, Wind and Brass was premiered by the San Fransico Symphony in February 1982. Grand Pianola Music recalls the music of Charles Ives in its cre...

John Luther Adams' Red Arc/Blue Veil for Mallet Percussion, Piano and Processed Sounds. Composed in 2001. Duration: 12 minutes.

John Adams, the composer of this easily played collection, was a pupil of C. S. Lang of Tuba Tune fame. His preludes, mostly just two pages, bear all the hallmarks of an organist who writes with affec...

John's Book of Alleged Dances is a set of ten short dances for string quartet and rhythm loops stored on audio CD. Six of the dances have rhythm loops. Dances may be performed in any order, and may be...

HPS 1162

Written in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles, The Dharma at Big Sur draws influence from Jack Kerouac's novel Big Sur and the electric violin playing of Tracy Silverman, the violinist...

HPS 1150 Contents: Tromba Lontana - Short Ride in a Fast Machine.