Nixon in China

Album by John Adams & Alice Goodman & Orchestra of St. Luke’s & Edo de Waart

Nixon in China is an opera by American composer John Adams, premiered in 1987. Blending post-minimalist rhythmic patterns with expansive orchestral and vocal writing, it presents a modern theatrical take on historical subject matter and was one of his first large-scale stage works that brought his post-minimalist style into opera.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene I. Beginning
    2:53
  2. 2.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene I. "Soldiers of heaven hold the sky"
    2:48
  3. 3.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene I. "The people are the heroes now"
    2:49
  4. 4.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene I. "Landing of the Spirit of '76"
    2:22
  5. 5.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene I. "Your flight was smooth, I hope?"
    1:19
  6. 6.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene I. "News has a kind of mystery"
    7:03
  7. 7.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II. Beginning
    4:05
  8. 8.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II. "You know we'll meet with your confrere the Democratic candidate if he should win"
    2:22
  9. 9.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II. "You've said that there's a certain well-known tree"
    2:44
  10. 10.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II. "Founders come first, then profiteers"
    6:52
  11. 11.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II. "We no longer need confucius"
    3:03
  12. 12.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene II. "Like the Ming Tombs"
    5:17
  13. 13.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene III. Beginning
    6:13
  14. 14.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene III. "Ladies and gentlemen, Comrades and friends"
    6:37
  15. 15.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene III. "Mr. Premier, distinguished guests"
    2:36
  16. 16.
    Nixon in China: Act I, Scene III. Cheers
    3:45

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene I. Beginning
    3:34
  2. 3.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene I. "Look down at the earth"
    5:26
  3. 4.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene I. "This is prophetic!"
    8:32
  4. 5.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene I. "At last the weather's warming up"
    3:03
  5. 6.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. Beginning
    2:53
  6. 7.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. "Oh what a day I thought I'd die!"
    4:47
  7. 8.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. "Whip her to death!"
    2:29
  8. 9.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. Tropical storm
    4:44
  9. 10.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. "Flesh rebels"
    3:08
  10. 11.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. "I have my brief"
    1:05
  11. 12.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. "It seems so strange"
    2:51
  12. 13.
    Nixon in China: Act II, Scene II. "I am the wife of Mao Tse-tung"
    6:29

Disc 3

  1. 3.
    Nixon in China: Act III. Beginning
    1:10
  2. 4.
    Nixon in China: Act III. "Some men you cannot satisfy"
    3:17
  3. 5.
    Nixon in China: Act III. "I am no one"
    4:01
  4. 6.
    Nixon in China: Act III. The Maos dance
    2:00
  5. 7.
    Nixon in China: Act III. "Sitting around the radio"
    1:16
  6. 8.
    Nixon in China: Act III. "Let us examine what you did"
    2:43
  7. 9.
    Nixon in China: Act III. "When I woke up, I dimly realized the Jap Bombers had given us a miss"
    1:20
  8. 10.
    Nixon in China: Act III. "I have no offspring"
    1:54
  9. 11.
    Nixon in China: Act III. "I can keep still"
    2:11
  10. 12.
    Nixon in China: Act III. "After that the sweat had soaked my uniform"
    2:28
  11. 13.
    Nixon in China: Act III. "Peking watches the stars"
    2:43
  12. 14.
    Nixon in China: Act III. "You won at poker"
    3:13
  13. 15.
    Nixon in China: Act III. "I am old and I cannot sleep"
    4:24

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