Doctor Atomic

John Adams; Gerald Finley, Julia Bullock, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, John Adams · 2018 · Album

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Tracklist

  1. Doctor Atomic: Overture
  2. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: The end of June 1945
  3. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: First of all, let me say
  4. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: We surround the plutonium core
  5. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: We are bedeviled by faulty detonators
  6. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Many of us are inclined to say
  7. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: The nation's fate
  8. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: This is a petition
  9. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: What if it's a dud?
  10. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: The test must go on as scheduled
  11. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: No. Before the bomb is used
  12. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Am I in your light?
  13. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Long let me inhale, deeply
  14. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: The motive of it all was loneliness
  15. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Electrical storm
  16. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: What the hell is wrong with the weather?
  17. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Five hundred US Superfortresses are raining incendiary bombs
  18. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: I'll sign the report, sir
  19. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: With respect, sir, anyone with good eyes
  20. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: I have been preoccupied with many matters
  21. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Get them out of here. From now on I'm making my own weather predictions
  22. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: General, you are bearing up with remarkable fortitude
  23. Doctor Atomic: Act 1: Batter my heart
  24. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Easter Eve 1945
  25. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Interlude: Rain over the Sangre de Cristo
  26. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: In the north the cloud-flower blossoms
  27. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: It's midnight, Jack
  28. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: I've dreamed the same dream
  29. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: To the farthest west, the sea and the striped country
  30. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: A delay in issuing the Potsdam ultimatum
  31. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Fermi is taking wagers
  32. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: I've spent a great deal of time indulging in controlled fantasies
  33. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Edward, the test will be delayed an hour
  34. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Panic
  35. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: The Program has been plagued from the start
  36. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: To keep the weakness secret
  37. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: I just finished reading The Magic Mountain
  38. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: The winter dawned, but the dead did not come back
  39. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: And love which contains all human spirit
  40. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: The only saviors are the ham sandwiches
  41. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Chorus: At the sight of this
  42. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Lieutenant Bush. Keep a weather eye on Oppenheimer
  43. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: To what benevolent demon do I owe the joy of being thus surrounded
  44. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: That's their signal
  45. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: The sky is clear to the east
  46. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: In the midnight, in the flame-brilliant midnight
  47. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Zero minus two minutes
  48. Doctor Atomic: Act 2: Countdown

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