Doctor Atomic

Album by John Adams & Gerald Finley & Julia Bullock & BBC Symphony Orchestra & BBC Singers & John Adams

Doctor Atomic is an opera by American composer John Adams, premiered in 2005. The work employs Adams's post-minimalist language—repetitive motifs, expansive orchestral colour and dense vocal and choral writing—to depict the ethical and scientific tensions of the atomic age, and it is among his operas from the early 21st century.

Doctor Atomic by John Adams - album cover

First released: 29th June 2018

Opera Classical

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Disc 1

1.
Doctor Atomic: Overture
5:10
2.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: The end of June 1945
4:18
3.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: First of all, let me say
2:16
4.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: We surround the plutonium core
1:42
5.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: We are bedeviled by faulty detonators
1:31
6.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Many of us are inclined to say
2:26
7.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: The nation's fate
2:16
8.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: This is a petition
2:42
9.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: What if it's a dud?
2:02
10.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: The test must go on as scheduled
3:20
11.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: No. Before the bomb is used
4:07
12.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Am I in your light?
4:31
13.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Long let me inhale, deeply
6:27
14.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: The motive of it all was loneliness
4:25
15.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Electrical storm
2:17
16.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: What the hell is wrong with the weather?
2:34
17.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Five hundred US Superfortresses are raining incendiary bombs
4:06
18.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: I'll sign the report, sir
1:19
19.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: With respect, sir, anyone with good eyes
3:00
20.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: I have been preoccupied with many matters
2:32
21.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Get them out of here. From now on I'm making my own weather predictions
4:05
22.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: General, you are bearing up with remarkable fortitude
3:18
23.
Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Batter my heart
7:34

Disc 2

2.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Easter Eve 1945
11:59
3.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Interlude: Rain over the Sangre de Cristo
2:57
4.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: In the north the cloud-flower blossoms
1:54
5.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: It's midnight, Jack
5:11
6.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: I've dreamed the same dream
2:48
7.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: To the farthest west, the sea and the striped country
3:35
8.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: A delay in issuing the Potsdam ultimatum
1:00
9.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Fermi is taking wagers
2:16
10.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: I've spent a great deal of time indulging in controlled fantasies
3:36
11.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Edward, the test will be delayed an hour
3:01
12.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Panic
2:52
13.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: The Program has been plagued from the start
1:30
14.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: To keep the weakness secret
2:11
15.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: I just finished reading The Magic Mountain
2:15
16.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: The winter dawned, but the dead did not come back
1:53
17.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: And love which contains all human spirit
3:00
18.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: The only saviors are the ham sandwiches
2:27
19.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Chorus: At the sight of this
4:41
20.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Lieutenant Bush. Keep a weather eye on Oppenheimer
1:33
21.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: To what benevolent demon do I owe the joy of being thus surrounded
2:42
22.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: That's their signal
2:17
23.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: The sky is clear to the east
2:59
24.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: In the midnight, in the flame-brilliant midnight
3:06
25.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Zero minus two minutes
1:03
26.
Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Countdown
6:05