Adams: Arctic Dreams / Synergy Vocals
Details
- Composer
- ADAMS, JOHN LUTHER
- Artist
- Synergy Vocals
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Cold Blue Music
- Released
- May 28, 2021
- Catalog #
- CB0060
- UPC
- 800413006022
About
Arctic Dreams is critically celebrated composer John Luther Adams's uniquely beautiful and magical seven-movement work for a quartet of voices and a quartet of strings, with layers of digital delay that create 32-part canonic textures. It is dedicated to the composers friend the late writer Barry Lopez, and titled after one of Lopez's greatest books. The work, like most of Adamss works, reflects the composers passion for natures elemental forces. Adams writes about the piece: As in several of my later string quartets, all the string sounds are produced by natural harmonics and open strings. The sung text is composed of the names of Arctic places, plants, birds, weather, and the seasons, in the languages of the Iñupiat and Gwichin peoples of Alaska. John Luther Adams's music has won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Grammy Award and has been performed by such prominent ensembles as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Seattle Symphony, JACK Quartet, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. Cold Blue Music has released eight recordings devoted to his work, including Lines Made by Walking, Everything That Rises, and The Wind in High Places. The performers: Synergy Vocals is a critically acclaimed vocal ensemble that has recorded music by Steve Reich, Louis Andriessen, David Lang, Luciano Berio, John Adams, Arvo Pärt, and many others and performed with the Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco Symphonies and the Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics. Their performances and recordings have been deemed amazing (New York Times); beautiful, haunting (Gramophone); and dazzling (The Observer). With Synergy is a quartet of notable string players: violinist Robin Lorentz, violist Ron Lawrence, cellist Michael Finckel, and bassist Robert Black.
Tracklist 7 tracks
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1 No. 1. The Place Where You Go to Listen 06:25
- Track
- 1
- Title
- No. 1. The Place Where You Go to Listen
- Duration
- 06:25
- Composer
- John Luther Adams
- Performer
- John Luther Adams, Robin Lorentz, Ron Lawrence, Michael Finckel, Robert Black
- Ensemble
- Synergy Vocals
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2 No. 2. Pointed Mountains Scattered All Around 07:12
- Track
- 2
- Title
- No. 2. Pointed Mountains Scattered All Around
- Duration
- 07:12
- Composer
- John Luther Adams
- Performer
- John Luther Adams, Robin Lorentz, Ron Lawrence, Michael Finckel, Robert Black
- Ensemble
- Synergy Vocals
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3 No. 3. The Circle of Suns and Moons 07:47
- Track
- 3
- Title
- No. 3. The Circle of Suns and Moons
- Duration
- 07:47
- Composer
- John Luther Adams
- Performer
- John Luther Adams, Robin Lorentz, Ron Lawrence, Michael Finckel, Robert Black
- Ensemble
- Synergy Vocals
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4 No. 4. The Circle of Winds 07:12
- Track
- 4
- Title
- No. 4. The Circle of Winds
- Duration
- 07:12
- Composer
- John Luther Adams
- Performer
- John Luther Adams, Robin Lorentz, Ron Lawrence, Michael Finckel, Robert Black
- Ensemble
- Synergy Vocals
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5 No. 5. River with No Willows 06:26
- Track
- 5
- Title
- No. 5. River with No Willows
- Duration
- 06:26
- Composer
- John Luther Adams
- Performer
- John Luther Adams, Robin Lorentz, Ron Lawrence, Michael Finckel, Robert Black
- Ensemble
- Synergy Vocals
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6 No. 6. One That Stays All Winter 06:55
- Track
- 6
- Title
- No. 6. One That Stays All Winter
- Duration
- 06:55
- Composer
- John Luther Adams
- Performer
- John Luther Adams, Robin Lorentz, Ron Lawrence, Michael Finckel, Robert Black
- Ensemble
- Synergy Vocals
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7 No. 7. Where the Waves Splash, Hitting Again and Again 01:52
- Track
- 7
- Title
- No. 7. Where the Waves Splash, Hitting Again and Again
- Duration
- 01:52
- Composer
- John Luther Adams
- Performer
- John Luther Adams, Robin Lorentz, Ron Lawrence, Michael Finckel, Robert Black
- Ensemble
- Synergy Vocals