John Coolidge Adams (*1947)
'Harmonielehre', 1985 (Three Mvts)
00:00, Part I, First Movement
18:50, Part II, The Anfortas Wound
30:58, Part III, Meister Eckhardt and 'Quackie'

Berliner Philharmoniker Orchester
Musical Direction: John Adams

Some notes about 'Harmonielehre' 1985
1. The first movement begins with the powerful repetition of chords in E minor in minimalist fashion. These chords form a recurring theme throughout the movement, interspersed with motoric episodes that use Schoenberg's harmonic progressions as chordal "gates" (a name coined by Adams to describe juxtapositions of harmonic areas in his Music). At the center of the arch-like 17-minute movement arises what Tom Service has called an "achingly expressive lyrical theme."
2. The Anfortas Wound
The brooding second movement, based on the legend of the Fisher King, shuns minimalist processes, favoring bleak Sibelius-like soundscapes, building inexorably slowly to twin climaxes of brutal dissonance, the second of which is drawn from the climactic sonority of the first movement of Gustav Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony.
Meister Eckhardt and Quackie
3. The third movement, according to Adams, is inspired by a dream that he had about his infant daughter Emily, whom he and his wife had briefly nicknamed "Quackie"."

source: wikipedia


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