Order from Amazon.com New World Records #80500-2 Real Audio samples: Minor Seconds, Rising Clouds of Mixed Seconds Minor Thirds, Rising Clouds of Seconds and Thirds Diminished Bells "...Adams's heavenly new magnum opus...a curious orchestral masterpiece...Bells ring in clusters, featureless piano arpeggios ascend like sheer walls, and at one central point the orchestra is suddenly gripped in fortissimo ecstasy. How can a work be so gorgeous and inviting, yet so difficult to grasp?" -- Kyle Gann, The Village Voice "...a contemplative evocation...etched in white on white... like some Arctic gamelan." -- Brad Bambarger, Billboard: Critic's Choice "...a ruminative tapestry of arresting beaury...a vast space filled with shimmering textures and tintinnabulary outbursts." -- Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner Order from Amazon.com New World Records #80459-2 Real Audio samples: The Place Where You Go To Listen Drums Of Winter Pointed Mountains Scattered All Around The Circle Of Suns And Moons The Circle of Winds "...a powerful experience, which has to rate as some kind of masterpiece." -- Classical Pulse: Five Star Rating "The music evokes something profound...invites you on an imaginative journey to the vast, icy land." -- In Tune Order from Amazon.com New Albion Records #NA061 Real Audio samples: Dream In White On White Night Peace The Far Country Of Sleep "...epic landscapes in sound...pieces for darkness with mountains in it..." -- Creative Loafing: #1 Contemporary Classical Recording of 1993 "...some of the most individual and beautiful music on today's scene..." -- In Tune "...a music that is both intently personal and utterly compelling...the suave sensuality of Takemitsu with the sparse astringency of Feldman...Adams has given Alaska itself a distinctive and identifiable 'sonic geography'" -- Chorus! Opus One #66 - LP Centaur #CRC 2273 "...uncanny...songbirdsongs is a beautiful recording." -- John Schafer, National Public Radio "...charm and a real feeling for the nature of nature's music." -- Stereo Review Terra Nova #TN9701 Owl Recording #32 - LP "...sensitive, stately, solemn, dramatic... Forest Without Leaves deserves a wider hearing." -- Option "...Forest Without Leaves is a work which is both moving and coherent, with a message whose time has come." -- Chorus! Opus One #88 - LP "...music of sparse tones and intensified silences, untranslatable in its timelessness and ultimately spiritual." -- Anchorage Times John Luther Adams's email: jla@alaska.net Bio | New | Recordings | Interview | Writings Works | Calendar | Web Site Credits | Home