Shaker Loops by John Adams

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The album is 48-minutes of Adams most ambitious symphonic work to date performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Nonesuch Records. Slipcase. 2002.

In The Death of Klinghoffer (1991), John Adams turns his cascading minimalism to the tragedy of the Achille Lauro. This spacious recording makes grand what seems so minor in the great scheme of things: a group of terrorists hijack an ocean liner and kill a wheelchair-bound Jewish retiree, Leon Klinghoffer. If the conceit of Adams' earlier opera, Nixon in China, seems a bit incredulous (Richard Nixon as opera subject?), The Death of Klinghoffer is genuine tragedy—Greek chorus and all. Alice Goodman is the librettist. This is one of the 20th century's best operas. A must. —Paul Cook

Bach Meets The Beatles: Revisited features 12 best-selling Fab Four tracks performed in the distinctive style of the Baroque master by contemporary pianist John Bayless. Classics like "Penny Lane", "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "Yesterday", "Eleanor Rigby", "Lady Madonna", and others are arranged as if Bach himself were behind the keyboards.