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Nixon in China

Nixon in China

Live Album by John Adams; Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop, Robert Orth, Maria Kanyova, Thomas Hammons, Marc Heller, Tracy Dahl, Chen-Ye Yuan

Released 28 September 2009
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Tracklist

  • CD 1
  • 1
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Beginning
    John Adams
    2:43
  • 2
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Soldiers of Heaven Hold the Sky (Chorus)
    John Adams
    2:45
  • 3
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: The People are the Heroes Now (Chorus)
    John Adams
    2:50
  • 4
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Landing of the Spirit of '76
    John Adams
    2:33
  • 5
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: Your Flight Was Smooth, I Hope (Chou, Nixon)
    John Adams
    1:25
  • 6
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 1: News Has a Kind of Mystery (Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus)
    John Adams
    7:29
  • 7
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: Beginning - I Can't Talk Very Well. My Throat… (Mao, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries)
    John Adams
    4:19
  • 8
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: You Know We'll Meet With Your Confrere, the Democratic Candidate (Mao, Nixon, Kissinger)
    John Adams
    2:40
  • 9
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: You've Said That There's a Certain Well-Known Tree (Chou, Nixon, Mao, Kissinger, 3 Secretaries)
    John Adams
    2:48
  • 10
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: Founders Come First, Then Profiteers (Mao, 3 Secretaries, Nixon, Chou, Kissinger)
    John Adams
    7:25
  • 11
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: We No Longer Need Confucius (Mao, 3 Secretaries)
    John Adams
    3:09
  • 12
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 2: Like the Ming Tombs (Nixon, 3 Secretaries, Mao, Chou)
    John Adams
    5:38
  • 13
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 3: Beginning - The Night Is Young (Nixon, Pat, Chou, Kissinger, Chorus)
    John Adams
    6:27
  • 14
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 3: Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends (Chou, Chorus, Pat, Kissinger)
    John Adams
    6:59
  • 15
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 3: Mr. Premier, Distinguished Guests (Nixon, Chorus)
    John Adams
    2:47
  • 16
    Nixon in China: Act I Scene 3: Cheers! (Chorus, Nixon, Chou, Pat, Kissinger)
    John Adams
    4:16
  • CD 2
  • 1
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 1: Beginning - I Don't Daydream and Don't look Back (Pat)
    John Adams
    3:47
  • 2
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 1: Look Down at the Earth (Chorus, Pat)
    John Adams
    5:51
  • 3
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 1: This Is Prophetic! (Pat)
    John Adams
    7:57
  • 4
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 1: At Last the Weather's Warming Up (Pat)
    John Adams
    3:19
  • 5
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: Beginning - Young as We Are (3 Secretaries)
    John Adams
    3:01
  • 6
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: O What a Day I Thought I'd Die! (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Chorus as Ching-hua, 3 Secretaries, Pat)
    John Adams
    4:40
  • 7
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: Whip Her to Death! (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Pat, Nixon)
    John Adams
    2:58
  • 8
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: Tropical Storm: There There, There There (Pat)
    John Adams
    4:57
  • 9
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: Flesh Rebels (Chorus as Militia)
    John Adams
    3:09
  • 10
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: I Have My Brief (Kissinger as Lao Szu, Nixon)
    John Adams
    1:11
  • 11
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: It Seems So Strange (Chorus as Ching-hua, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat, Nixon, 3 Secretaries)
    John Adams
    3:01
  • 12
    Nixon in China: Act II Scene 2: I Am the Wife of Mao Tse-tung (Chiang Ch'ing, Chorus)
    John Adams
    7:05
  • CD 3
  • 1
    Nixon in China: Act III: Beginning
    John Adams
    1:08
  • 2
    Nixon in China: Act III: Some Men You Cannot Satisfy (Kissinger, Nixon, Pat, Chou, Chiang Ch'ing)
    John Adams
    3:09
  • 3
    Nixon in China: Act III: I Am No One (Mao, Chou, Kissinger, Chiang Ch'ing, Pat)
    John Adams
    3:47
  • 4
    Nixon in China: Act III: The Maos Dance (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Pat, Nixon, Chou)
    John Adams
    2:04
  • 5
    Nixon in China: Act III: Sitting Around the Radio (Nixon, Pat)
    John Adams
    1:17
  • 6
    Nixon in China: Act III: Let Us Examine What You Did (Mao, Chiang Ch'ing, Chou)
    John Adams
    2:54
  • 7
    Nixon in China: Act III: When I Woke Up I Dimly Realized the Jap Bombers Had Given Us a Miss (Nixon, Pat)
    John Adams
    1:21
  • 8
    Nixon in China: Act III: I Have No Offspring (Chou, Mao, Chiang Ch'ing)
    John Adams
    2:04
  • 9
    Nixon in China: Act III: I Can Keep Still (Chiang Ch'ing)
    John Adams
    3:13
  • 10
    Nixon in China: Act III: After That the Sweat Had Soaked my Uniform (Nixon, Pat, Chiang Ch'ing, Mao, Chou)
    John Adams
    2:55
  • 11
    Nixon in China: Act III: Peking Watches the Stars (Chiang Ch'ing, Mao)
    John Adams
    3:29
  • 12
    Nixon in China: Act III: You Won at Poker (Pat, Nixon, Chiang Ch'ing, Mao)
    John Adams
    4:01
  • 13
    Nixon in China: Act III: I Am Old and I Cannot Sleep (Chou)
    John Adams
    4:56

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