El Niño

Album by John Adams & Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & Dawn Upshaw & Willard White & Kent Nagano

El Niño is a nativity oratorio by American composer John Adams, first performed in 2000. The work blends Adams's post-minimalist orchestral language with large-scale choral and solo vocal writing, drawing on a mix of biblical and poetic texts and incorporating elements from early chant through jazz-inflected and contemporary harmonic idioms, and it represents a continuation of his engagement with dramatic vocal forms at the turn of the 21st century.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    El Niño: Part One. I Sing of a Maiden
    6:20
  2. 2.
    El Niño: Part One. Hail, Mary, Gracious!
    4:47
  3. 3.
    El Niño: Part One. La Anunciación
    9:34
  4. 4.
    El Niño: Part One. For With God No Thing Shall Be Impossible
    1:15
  5. 5.
    El Niño: Part One. The Babe Leaped in Her Womb
    3:30
  6. 6.
    El Niño: Part One. Magnificat
    3:23
  7. 7.
    El Niño: Part One. Now She Was Sixteen Years Old
    3:20
  8. 8.
    El Niño: Part One. Joseph's Dream
    4:32
  9. 9.
    El Niño: Part One. Shake the Heavens
    5:54
  10. 10.
    El Niño: Part One. Se Habla de Gabriel
    8:26
  11. 11.
    El Niño: Part One. The Christmas Star
    6:45

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    El Niño: Part Two. Pues Mi Dios Ha Nacido a Penar
    4:34
  2. 3.
    El Niño: Part Two. When Herod Heard
    2:27
  3. 4.
    El Niño: Part Two. Woe Unto Them That Call Evil Good
    4:22
  4. 5.
    El Niño: Part Two. And the Star Went Before Them
    2:26
  5. 6.
    El Niño: Part Two. The Three Kings
    5:25
  6. 7.
    El Niño: Part Two. And When They Were Departed
    1:11
  7. 8.
    El Niño: Part Two. Dawn Air
    4:22
  8. 9.
    El Niño: Part Two. And He Slew All the Children
    1:43
  9. 10.
    El Niño: Part Two. Memorial de Tlatelolco
    9:12
  10. 11.
    El Niño: Part Two. In the Day of the Great Slaughter
    3:20
  11. 12.
    El Niño: Part Two. Pues Está Tiritando
    3:35
  12. 13.
    El Niño: Part Two. Jesus and the Dragons
    2:50
  13. 14.
    El Niño: Part Two. A Palm Tree
    7:57

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