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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

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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
   

 

 

Act I - Scene 1

 
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
   

 

 

Act I - Scene 2

 
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
   

 

 

Act I - Scene 3

 
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
   

 

 

Act II - Scene 1

 
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
   

 

 

Act II - Scene 2

 
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
   

 

 

Act II - Scene 3

 
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
   

 

 

Act II - Scene 4

 
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 VocalsCathy 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 ClarinetSteve Morris (12)
  • Bass TromboneRobert O'Neill
  • Bass VocalsAndrew 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
  • BassoonJulie Price, Susan Frankel
  • Celesta [Celeste]Elizabeth Burley
  • CelloAnna Beryl, Augusta Harris, Clare Hinton, Colin Alexander (2), Marie Strom*, Mark Sheridan (3), Michael Atkinson, Sarah Hedley Miller, Susan Monks, Tamsy Kaner
  • ChoirBBC Singers
  • Chorus MasterMatthew Morley
  • ClarinetJames Burke (9), Peter Davis (25)
  • Composed By, ConductorJohn Adams
  • ContrabassoonSteven Magee
  • Cor AnglaisAlison Teale
  • DesignJohn Heiden
  • Directed By [Barbican Performances]Kenneth Richardson (2)
  • Double BassBenjamin Russell, Beverley Jones, Catherine Elliott, Lucy Hare, Marian Gulbicki, Michael Clarke (19), Nicholas Bayley, Richard Alsop
  • Edited ByRené 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-ProducerRobert Hurwitz
  • FluteDaniel Pailthorpe, Tomoka Mukai
  • HarpLouise Martin (2)
  • HornAlexei Watkins, Andrew Antcliff, Michael Murray (3), Nicholas Hougham, Nicholas Korth
  • Libretto ByPeter Sellars
  • Liner NotesMark Swed
  • Mezzo-soprano Vocals [Pasqualta]Jennifer Johnston
  • OboeImogen Smith, Timothy Rundle
  • OrchestraBBC Symphony Orchestra
  • PercussionDavid Hockings, Elsa Bradley, Fiona Ritchie, Joseph Cooper (6), Richard Cartlidge
  • Photography By [Performance]Mark Allan (3)
  • Piccolo FluteKathleen Stevenson
  • ProducerFriedemann Engelbrecht
  • Producer [BBC]Ann McKay
  • Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered ByRené Möller
  • RepetiteurNicholas Ansdell-Evans
  • Soprano VocalsAlice 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 DesignerMark Grey, Mark Grey
  • Tenor VocalsAlastair 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
  • TimpaniChristopher Hind
  • TromboneDan Jenkins, Helen Vollam
  • TrumpetGareth Bimson, Joseph Atkins, Martin Hurrell
  • TubaSam Elliott (3)
  • ViolaAudrey 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], LeaderMaya 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

 

 

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