Doctor Atomic Digital FLAC Album

Doctor Atomic Digital FLAC AlbumOn this first recording of John Adams's 2005 opera, Doctor Atomic, the composer leads the BBC Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with a cast led by Gerald Finley, who originated the role of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars created the libretto, drawing from original sources to explore the final hours leading up to the first atomic bomb explosion at the Alamagordo test site in New Mexico in July 1945. "A magnificent

an appropriately career-defining body of work

bassist Matt Penman

"This is sumptuous

Amaryllis is a six-song suite performed by a newly formed sextet of master improvisers

The album features seven newly composed songs: three from Redman

"her artistry hitting dynamic new heights and her voice expressing every emotional nuance

Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris perform songs from their 2006 collaboration All the Roadrunning and their own career classics—like Knopfler's "Romeo and Juliet" and Harris's "Red Dirt Girl"—before a sold-out crowd at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on June 28

Lennon & McCartney

and traditional songs produced by Buddy Miller (Emmylou Harris

and music that have shaped our multifaceted cultural identity

" Gramophone exclaims: "This is extraordinary playing from an extraordinary musician who is willing to stretch stylistic and technical boundaries to further his art while paying homage to one of the greatest composers of all time

and drummer Eric Harland—features 10 original tunes reflecting the members' many influences