Doctor Atomic Digital MP3 Album

Doctor Atomic Digital MP3 AlbumOn this first recording of John Adams's 2005 opera, Doctor Atomic, the composer leads the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with a cast led by Gerald Finley, who originated the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars created the libretto, drawing from original sources to explore the final hours leading up to the first atomic bomb explosion at the Alamagordo test site in New Mexico in July 1945. "A magnificent

marks the band’s debut album as the duo of Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor

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" plus six original compositions: two earlier tunes

This five-disc deluxe vinyl box set includes a 100-page bound book with an extensive interview by Daniel Handler and facsimile handwritten lyrics by Merritt

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including the title track by Adam Guettel

Grammy-winning Brazilian singers

The album was recorded in New York with pianist/producer Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman) and features several songs previewed over the previous two years in the digital Diary series

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his longtime friends and champions Kronos Quartet