John Adams: The John Adams Earbox
The John Adams Earbox is a ten-CD retrospective of almost all of Adams’s music written since the late 1970’s. In 1985 Adams began a long-term exclusive relationship with Nonesuch Records which has resulted in one of the most thoroughly documented catalogues of any living composer. Many of the recordings are conducted by the composer himself, and all have been created under his supervision. The box set includes an extensively annotated booklet with photos and essays by Renaud Marchart, chief music critic for Le Monde, Nonesuch president Bob Hurwitz and by Adams himself. Until the time that a major monograph on Adams’s work appears this document should be the most thorough source of information on his life and work.
