John Adams - A Flowering Tree FLAC download

Tracklist

A Flowering Tree - An Opera In Two Acts
1-1	Act I Scene 1	3:52
1-2	One Morning…	8:41
1-3	Kumudha's Prayer	6:40
1-4	Scene 2: Flores Chorus	2:44
1-5	Kumudha And Her Sister…	8:53
1-6	Scene 3: Audience With The King	2:25
1-7	Mamá Mamá, ¿Por Qué Nos Pegas?	4:43
1-8	Scene 4: The Wedding	3:50
1-9	They Brought Her To Me	5:38
1-10	Bride And Groom	6:24
1-11	The Bride Sunk Her Face...	5:45
2-1	Act Il Scene 1: Orchestral Prelude	6:59
2-2	"You Are Cruel."	3:50
2-3	"Kumudha Once More…"	5:45
2-4	"Days Passed…"	5:12
2-5	Scene 3: Before I Laughed With Him Nightly	6:31
2-6	Scene 4: Kumudha And The Beggar Minstrels	10:03
2-7	Scene 5: We Had All But Forgotten You, Prince	5:43
2-8	The Prince Recognizes Kumudha	5:41
2-9	Kumudha's Final Transformation	3:15

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Nonesuch Records Inc.
• Copyright (c) – Nonesuch Records Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA International Inc.
• Copyright (c) – WEA International Inc.
• Recorded At – Barbican Centre
• Designed At – SMOG Design, Inc.
• Published By – Boosey & Hawkes

Credits

• Alto Vocals – Carla Aular, Elizabeth Maldonado, Flor Martínez, Gioconda Cabrera, Luimar Arismendi, Magda Albarracín, Marina Esayag, Sonia González de Páez, Virginia Largo, Yulene Velásquez
• Bass Clarinet – John Stenhouse
• Bass Vocals [Bass / Baritone] – Alejandro Figueroa, Andrés Ferrer, Carlos Rojas, Edwing Tenías, Javier Silva, José G. Manrique, Martin Camacho, Pablo Morales, Roberto Medina , Samuel Dávila, Víctor González
• Bass Vocals [Bass-baritone - Principle] – Eric Owens
• Bassoon – Joost Bosdijk, Robert Bourton
• Celesta – John Alley
• Cello – Alexander Somov, Francis Saunders, Hilary Jones, Jennifer Brown , Mary Bergin, Noel Bradshaw
• Chorus – Schola Cantorum de Venezuela*
• Chorus Master [Director - Schola Cantorum De Venezuela] – María Guinand*
• Clarinet – Fiona Cross, Sarah Thurlow
• Conductor [Founding Conductor - Schola Cantorum De Venezuela] – Alberto Grau
• Contrabassoon – Dominic Morgan
• Coordinator [Editorial Coordinator For Nonesuch Records] – Ronen Givony
• Cor Anglais – Christine Pendrill
• Design – John Heiden, Nick Steinhardt
• Directed By [Artistic Director - Schola Cantorum De Venezuela] – Ana María Raga, María Guinand*
• Directed By [Assistant Artistic Director - Schola Cantorum De Venezuela] – Luimar Arismendi, Pablo Morales, Víctor González
• Double Bass – Colin Paris, Gerald Newson, Matthew Gibson , Michael Francis , Patrick Laurence
• Engineer [Assistant - Editing And Mixing, Mastering] – René Möller
• Engineer [Recording Assistant] – Ansgar Wempe
• Engineer [Sound], Mixed By – Tobias Lehman
• Executive-Producer – Robert Hurwitz
• Flute – Andrew Nicholson, Martin Parry
• Harp – Karen Vaughan
• Horn – Angela Barnes, John Ryan , Jonathan Lipton, Nic Branston, Tim Jones*
• Libretto By – John Adams, Peter Sellars
• Liner Notes – Sarah Cahill
• Management [Production Manager For Nonesuch Records] – Eli Cane
• Music By, Conductor [London Symphony Orchestra] – John Adams
• Oboe – Gareth Hulse, Kate Clemmow*
• Orchestra – London Symphony Orchestra*
• Other [Original Javanese Dance] – Eko Supriyanto, Astri Kusama And Rusini Sidi
• Other [Vocal Coach] – Elizabeth Maldonado And Verónica Sosa
• Percussion – Chris Thomas*, David Jackson , Neil Percy, Scott Bywater
• Photography By – John Adams, Ruth Walz
• Piccolo Flute – Sharon Williams
• Producer, Edited By – Martin Sauer
• Recorder [Soprano & Alto] – Ben Norbury, Marion Scott
• Soprano Vocals – Adriana González, Ana María Raga, Darlene Balza, Flavia Ranzolin, Flor Yánez, Genitte Peña, Iris Pagano, Isabel Hernández, Marita Montero, Rima Ibrahim, Rosalba Alvarez, Ruth Rojas, Samia Ibrahim, Verónica Sosa, Yolanda Gómez
• Soprano Vocals [Principle] – Jessica Rivera
• Sound Designer [Original Sound Design] – Mark Grey
• Supervised By [Production Supervisor For Nonesuch Records] – Karina Hurwitz
• Tenor Vocals – Daniel González , Jesús Hidalgo, John Martínez, José E. Castillo, José Russo, Juan de Sousa, Luis G. Cabrera, Miguel Castro , Otto Prieto, Pedro Sequera, Reinaldo Justo, Reynaldo Márquez, Said Barrios
• Tenor Vocals [Principle] – Russell Thomas
• Timpani – Dominic Hackett
• Trombone – Andrew Waddicor*, Dudley Bright, James Maynard
• Trumpet – Christopher Deacon, Gerald Ruddock
• Viola – Gillianne Haddow, Jonathan Welch, Malcolm Johnston, Maxine Moore, Natasha Wright, Peter Norriss
• Violin [I - Leader] – Stephanie Gomley*
• Violin [I] – Claire Parfitt, Colin Renwick, Ginette Decuyper, Harriet Rayfield, Helena Wood , Lennox Mackenzie, Michael Humphrey, Nicole Wilson , Nigel Broadbent
• Violin [Il] – Andrew Pollock, Belinda McFarlane, Evgeny Grach, Hazel Mulligan, Matthew Gardner, Miya Ichinose, Norman Clarke, Sarah Quinn

Notes

Recorded live at the Barbican Centre, London, August 7-12, 2007.
Recording facilities: Teldex Studio Berlin.

Libretto adapted from the Indian folktale and poetry in translations by A.K. Ramanujan.

A Flowering Tree was commissioned by New Crowned Hope (Vienna), San Francisco Symphony, Barbican Centre (London), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (New York), and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
First performance: November 14, 2006, New Crowned Hope Festival, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria.

Cover image courtesy of Roli Books (New Dehli, India), from their book "Erotic Literature of Ancient India" by Sandhya Mulchandani.

This recording was made possible by support from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording Program.

Libretto sources:
"Speaking Of Siva", Kannada bhakti poems by Virasaiva saints, A.K. Ramanujan, translator, London, Penguin Books, 1973.
"The Interior Landscape, Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology", A.K. Ramanujan, translator, Oxford University Press, USA, 1994.
"Poems of Love and War", selected and translated by A.K. Ramanujan, Columbia University Press, New York, 1985.

A Flowering Tree is dedicated to Janis Susskind and Tony Fell.

Jewelcase comes in a cardboard slipcase that also includes a 44-page booklet with liner notes and full libretto.

℗ & © 2008 Nonesuch Records Inc. for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 075597996517
• Label Code: LC 00286
• Rights Society: GEMA/BIEM
• Matrix / Runout (Disc One): 7559799651A/1 V01 AZG
• Matrix / Runout (Disc Two): 7559799651A/2 V01 IDA
• Mastering SID Code: IFPI L011
• Mould SID Code (Disc One): IFPI 0598
• Mould SID Code (Disc Two): IFPI 05R2

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
Pro 400050	John Adams	A Flowering Tree ‎(2xCD, Album, Promo)	Nonesuch	Pro 400050	2008