Description
John Adams – Doctor Atomic (Opera in two acts) / Gerald Finley, Julia Bullock, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Adams (conductor) / Nonesuch 2x Audio CD 2018 / 7559-79310-7
UPC 075597931075
Label: Nonesuch – 7559-79310-7
Format: 2 x CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: Jun 29, 2018
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera
Tracklist:
| 1-1 | Overture | 5:11 | |
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Act I - Scene 1 |
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| 1-2 | "The end of June 1945" | 4:19 | |
| 1-3 | "First of all, let me say" | 2:16 | |
| 1-4 | "We surround the plutonium core" | 1:43 | |
| 1-5 | "We are bedeviled by faulty detonators" | 1:31 | |
| 1-6 | "Many of us are inclined to say" | 2:27 | |
| 1-7 | "The nation's fate" | 2:17 | |
| 1-8 | "This is a petition" | 2:43 | |
| 1-9 | "What if it's a dud?" | 2:03 | |
| 1-10 | "The test must go on as scheduled" | 3:21 | |
| 1-11 | "No. Before the bomb is used" | 4:07 | |
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Act I - Scene 2 |
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| 1-12 | "Am I in your light?" | 4:31 | |
| 1-13 | "Long let me inhale, deeply" | 6:27 | |
| 1-14 | "The motive of it all was loneliness" | 4:25 | |
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Act I - Scene 3 |
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| 1-15 | Electrical storm | 2:18 | |
| 1-16 | "What the hell is wrong with the weather?" | 2:34 | |
| 1-17 | "Five hundred US Superfortresses are raining incendiary bombs" | 4:07 | |
| 1-18 | "I'll sign the report, sir" | 1:19 | |
| 1-19 | "With respect, sir, anyone with good eyes" | 3:01 | |
| 1-20 | "I have been preoccupied with many matters" | 2:32 | |
| 1-21 | "Get them out of here. From now on I'm making my own weather predictions" | 4:05 | |
| 1-22 | "General, you are bearing up with remarkable fortitude" | 3:18 | |
| 1-23 | "Batter my heart" | 7:34 | |
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Act II - Scene 1 |
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| 2-1 | "Easter Eve 1945" | 12:00 | |
| 2-2 | "Interlude: Rain over the Sangre de Cristo" | 2:57 | |
| 2-3 | "In The north, The cloud-flower blossoms" | 1:54 | |
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Act II - Scene 2 |
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| 2-4 | "It's midnight, Jack" | 5:12 | |
| 2-5 | "I've dreamed The same dream" | 2:49 | |
| 2-6 | "To the furthest west, the sea and the striped country" | 3:36 | |
| 2-7 | "A delay in issuing the Potsdam ultimatum" | 1:01 | |
| 2-8 | "Fermi is taking wagers" | 2:16 | |
| 2-9 | "I've spent a great deal of time indulging in controlled fantasies" | 3:37 | |
| 2-10 | "Edward, the test will be delayed an hour" | 3:02 | |
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Act II - Scene 3 |
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| 2-11 | Panic | 2:53 | |
| 2-12 | "The program has been plagued from the start" | 1:30 | |
| 2-13 | "To keep the weakness secret" | 2:12 | |
| 2-14 | "I just finished reading The Magic Mountain" | 2:15 | |
| 2-15 | "The winter dawned, but, the dead did not come back" | 1:54 | |
| 2-16 | "And love which contains all human spirit" | 3:01 | |
| 2-17 | "The only saviors are the ham sandwiches" | 2:28 | |
| 2-18 | "At the sight of this" | 4:42 | |
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Act II - Scene 4 |
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| 2-19 | "Lieutenant Bush. Keep a weather eye on Oppenheimer" | 1:33 | |
| 2-20 | "To what benevolent demon do I owe the joy of being thus surrounded" | 2:42 |
| 2-21 | "That's their signal" | 2:18 | |
| 2-22 | "The sky is clear to the east" | 2:59 | |
| 2-23 | "In the midnight, in the flame-brilliant midnight" |
3:06 | |
| 2-24 | "Zero Minus Two Minutes" | 1:04 | |
| 2-25 | Countdown | 6:05 |
- Alto Vocals – Cathy Bell (2), Cherith Millburn-Fryer, Ciara Hendrick, Eleanor Minney, Katie Schofield, Margaret Cameron, Morag Boyle, Nancy Cole (2), Rosie Middleton, Sian Menna
- Baritone Vocals [Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Oppie)] – Gerald Finley
- Baritone Vocals [Frank Hubbard] – Marcus Farnsworth
- Bass Clarinet – Steve Morris (12)
- Bass Trombone – Robert O'Neill
- Bass Vocals – Andrew Rupp, Charles Gibbs, David Le Prevost, Francis Brett, Gavin Horsley, James Birchall (2), Jamie W Hall, Jimmy Holliday (2), Philip Tebb, Thomas Oldham (2)
- Bass Vocals [General Leslie Groves] – Aubrey Allicock
- Bassoon – Julie Price, Susan Frankel
- Celesta [Celeste] – Elizabeth Burley
- Cello – Anna Beryl, Augusta Harris, Clare Hinton, Colin Alexander (2), Marie Strom*, Mark Sheridan (3), Michael Atkinson, Sarah Hedley Miller, Susan Monks, Tamsy Kaner
- Choir – BBC Singers
- Chorus Master– Matthew Morley
- Clarinet – James Burke (9), Peter Davis (25)
- Composed By, Conductor – John Adams
- Contrabassoon – Steven Magee
- Cor Anglais – Alison Teale
- Design – John Heiden
- Directed By [Barbican Performances] – Kenneth Richardson (2)
- Double Bass – Benjamin Russell, Beverley Jones, Catherine Elliott, Lucy Hare, Marian Gulbicki, Michael Clarke (19), Nicholas Bayley, Richard Alsop
- Edited By – René Möller, Wolfgang Schiefermair
- Engineer [BBC Assistant Engineer] – Adele Conlin, Drew Leckie, Joe Yon
- Engineer [BBC Radio Outside Broadcasts Engineer] – Chris Banner (2), Stephen Bridges
- Engineer [BBC Recording Engineer] – Neil Pemberton
- Executive-Producer – Robert Hurwitz
- Flute – Daniel Pailthorpe, Tomoka Mukai
- Harp – Louise Martin (2)
- Horn – Alexei Watkins, Andrew Antcliff, Michael Murray (3), Nicholas Hougham, Nicholas Korth
- Libretto By – Peter Sellars
- Liner Notes – Mark Swed
- Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Pasqualta] – Jennifer Johnston
- Oboe – Imogen Smith, Timothy Rundle
- Orchestra – BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Percussion – David Hockings, Elsa Bradley, Fiona Ritchie, Joseph Cooper (6), Richard Cartlidge
- Photography By [Performance] – Mark Allan (3)
- Piccolo Flute – Kathleen Stevenson
- Producer – Friedemann Engelbrecht
- Producer [BBC] – Ann McKay
- Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By – René Möller
- Repetiteur – Nicholas Ansdell-Evans
- Soprano Vocals – Alice Gribbin, Elizabeth Poole, Eloise Irving, Emma Tring, Lucinda Cox, Micaela Haslam, Nina Bennet, Rachel Chapman, Rebecca Lea (2)
- Soprano Vocals [Kitty Oppenheimer] – Julia Bullock
- Sound Designer – Mark Grey, Mark Grey
- Tenor Vocals – Alastair Putt, Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks, Andrew Murgatroyd, Daniel Auchincloss, Jon English (2), Julian Stocker, Robert Carlin (2), Stephen Jeffes, Tom Kelly, Tom Raskin
- Tenor Vocals [Captain James Nolan] – Samuel Sakker
- Tenor Vocals [Robert Wilsom] – Andrew Staples
- Timpani – Christopher Hind
- Trombone – Dan Jenkins, Helen Vollam
- Trumpet – Gareth Bimson, Joseph Atkins, Martin Hurrell
- Tuba – Sam Elliott (3)
- Viola – Audrey Henning, Bryony Mycroft, Carolyn Scott (2), Daisy Spiers, Mary Whittle, Matthias Wiesner (3), Michael Leaver, Natalie Taylor (3), Norbert Blume, Peter Mallinson (2), Philip Hall, Zoe Matthews
- Violin [1st] – Anna Smith (4), Benjamin Roskams, Charles Renwick, Colin Huber, Frances Dewar, Gabrielle Painter, Jenny King, Jeremy Martin (2), John Garner (3), Laura Dixon, Molly Cockburn, Morane Cohen-Lamberger, Ni Do, Regan Crowley, Shirley Turner (2)
- Violin [1st], Leader – Maya Iwabuchi
- Violin [2nd] – Daniel Meyer (5), Danny Fajardo, Eleanor Bartlett, Hania Gmitruk, Lucica Trita, Lucy Curnow, Maya Bickel, Non Peters, Philippa Ballard, Rachel Samuel (2), Raja Halder, Ruth Funnell, Tammy Se, Vanessa Hughes
