Los Angeles Philharmonic / John Adams -Girls of the Golden West -NONESUCH CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Disc 01
01. "Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 1: It was a driving, vigorous, restless population"
02. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IÿScene 1: Wagon Ride - Ned Peters was a hustler"
03. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IÿScene 2: My name is Joe"
04. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IÿScene 2: Now he consoles himself"
05. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IÿScene 3: A gambler#s life I do admire"
06. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IÿScene 3: Josefa, you remember"
07. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IÿScene 4: It's bone, it#s backbone"
08. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IÿScene 4: Comin' up from Red Dog"

Disc 02
01. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IIÿScene 1: The Raven"
02. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IIÿScene 2: The attack on the Mexicans"
03. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IIÿScene 3: It seems like midnight"
04. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IIÿScene 3: What is this celebration to me?"
05. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IIÿScene 4: This very nearly was the cause"
06. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IIÿScene 4: Ven esta noche"
07. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IIÿScene 4: Blessed and praised"
08. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IIÿScene 4: I'm going far away from my creditors"
09. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IIÿScene 5: TheÿDownievilleÿmob"
10. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IIÿScene 5: T£ me quieres alba"
11. "Girls of the Golden West,ÿAct IIÿScene 5: It's four long years (Lousy Miner)"
12. "Girls of the Golden West, Act IIÿEpilogue: Sometimes I lounge forlornly to the window"

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John Adams: Girls Of The Golden West by Los Angeles Philharmonic & john Adams, released 26 April 2024. This version of John Adams: Girls Of The Golden West comes as a 2xCD. -

Girls of the Golden West is a California opera, telling the story of the Gold Rush not through familiar time-worn myth, but in the words and deeds of real people: in the words of Mark Twain, "the strangest population, the finest population... who ever trooped down the startled solitudes of an unpeopled land. "Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars drew from original sources from the Gold Rush era-letters, journals, newspaper articles, and familiar song lyrics-to create the libretto. The composer leads the LA Phil in this recording made in Disney Hall. The aria "Wagon Ride," which features Davóne Tines and Julia Bullock (both also Nonesuch artists), is available today. The Los Angeles Times called the opera "glorious and compelling. " After it's San Francisco premiere in 2017 and a production at the Netherlands Opera, Adams revised the opera significantly. Writing about this new, dramatically more compact, version, Mark Swed wrote in the Times, "The Disney concert performance... went straight for the gut. "Girls of the Golden Westfeatures the Los Angeles Master Chorale, long familiar with Adams' choral music, prepared by it's Artistic Director Grant Gershon, and a cast that also includes Paul Appleby, Hye Jung Lee, Elliot Madore, Daniela Mack, and Ryan McKinny. Adams says, "Girls of the Golden Westmay be my most personal of all my stage creations. Like the characters in it's story, I too am a kind of California immigrant... For forty years I have hiked those same mountains... And I share the same sense of awe and appreciation that Dame Shirley so perfectly evokes in the opera's very last moment-for the fathomless splendor and 'never-enough-to-be-talked-about sky of California.

Recorded live in performance January 27 and 29, 2023

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7559790048

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