John Adams

American minimalist composer, United States, 1947 to present

Albums

Year	Title	Average	Ratings
1984	Harmonium	8.0	1
1994	Harmonielehre / The Chairman Dances / Tromba Lontana / Short Ride in a Fast Machine	7.0	1

89 more releases

1975	Ensemble Pieces
1984	Adams: Grand Pianola / Reich: Eight Lines
1985	John Adams: Grand Pianola / Steve Reich: Eight Lines / Vermont Counterpoint
1985	Harmonielehre
1986	Shaker Loops / Phrygian Gates
1987	The Chairman Dances
1988	Nixon in China
1989	Fearful Symmetries / The Wound-Dresser
1990	Minimalist
1991	Feel Good
1991	John Adams Conducts American Elegies
1992	The Death of Klinghoffer
1993	Hoodoo Zephyr
1993	Carter: Night Fantasies / Adams: Phrygian Gates
1994	Chamber Symphony / Grand Pianola Music
1995	John Adams: Grand Pianola Music / Short Ride in a Fast Machine / David Lang: Are You Experienced? / Under Orpheus
1996	Harmonium / The Bells
1996	Century Rolls
1996	The Desert Music / Shaker Loops
1996	El Dorado
1997	Shaker Loops / Phrygian Gates / Chamber Symphony
1997	East of Eden / Rebel Without a Cause
1998	Gnarly Buttons / John's Book of Alleged Dances
1998	Piano Music of John Adams and Terry Riley
1998	China Gates / Phrygian Gates
1998	I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
1999	American Clarinet
1999	Violin Concertos
2000	Harmonium / The Klinghoffer Choruses
2000	Fearful Symmetries / Chamber Symphony / Four Songs / Christian Zeal and Activity
2001	Shifting Landscapes
2001	El Niño
2002	Naive and Sentimental Music
2002	Tromba Lontana / Violin Concerto / The Wound Dresser
2002	BBC Music, Volume 11, Number 2: Short Ride in a Fast Machine / The Chairman Dances / Harmonium / De Snelheid
2004	Road Movies
2004	On the Transmigration of Souls
2004	Shaker Loops / The Wound-Dresser / Short Ride in a Fast Machine
2005	Road Movies
2005	I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky
2006	Adams: Violin Concerto / Corigliano: Red Violin "Chaconne"
2006	The Dharma at Big Sur / My Father Knew Charles Ives
2007	Complete Piano Music
2008	String Poetic
2008	A Flowering Tree
2009	Transmigration
2009	Doctor Atomic Symphony
2010	American Counterpoint
2010	Passion & Pain: Adams, Haydn & Schubert
2011	John Adams: Portrait
2011	Son of Chamber Symphony / String Quartet
2012	If You Love for Beauty, Vol I
2012	If You Love for Beauty
2012	Harmonielehre / Short Ride in a Fast Machine
2013	Fellow Traveller: the complete quartet works of John Adams
2013	Harmonielehre / Doctor Atomic Symphony / Short Ride in a Fast Machine
2014	Composing America
2014	Road Movies
2014	American Grace
2014	The Gospel According to the Other Mary
2014	Violin concertos
2014	City Noir
2015	Absolute Jest / Grand Pianola Music
2016	Visions
2016	The Minimalists
2016	Scheherazade.2
2016	Violin Concertos
2016	Joe Hisaishi Presents Music Future 2015
2017	Concerti III: Poulenc - McPhee - Adams
2017	Korngold/Adams: Violin Concertos
2017	The John Adams Edition
2017	Piano Music
2018	Violin Concerto
2018	Naive and Sentimental Music / Absolute Jest
2018	Doctor Atomic
2019	Berlioz: Les nuits d’été / Ravel: Shéhérazade / Debussy/Adams: Le livre de Baudelaire
2019	American Postcard
2019	The John Adams Album
2020	Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?
2021	My Father Knew Charles Ives / Harmonielehre
2021	Chamber Symphony / Common Tones in Simple Time / Son of Chamber Symphony
2021	This is America!
2021	Joe Hisaishi Presents Music Future V
2022	John Adams
2024	BBC Music, Volume 32, Number 5: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / John Adams: Harmonielehre
2024	City Noir / Fearful Symmetries / Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance
2024	Girls of the Golden West
2025	Hallelujah Junction
	The Death of Klinghoffer

EPs

Year	Title	Average	Ratings
2026	John Adams: Saxophone Concerto

Live

Year	Title	Average	Ratings
2009	Nixon in China
2011	Music for a Time of War

Soundtracks

Year	Title	Average	Ratings
2010	I Am Love

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