John Adams: Doctor Atomic

Julia Bullock, Gerald Finley, BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Orchestra

2006 • Classical

Tracklist

• 1
  Doctor Atomic: Overture
  5:11
• 2
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 1: "The end of June 1945"
  4:19
• 3
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 1: "First of all, let me say"
  2:16
• 4
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 1:  "We surround the plutonium core"
  1:43
• 5
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 1: "We are bedeviled by faulty detonators"
  1:31
• 6
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 1: "Many of us are inclined to say"
  2:27
• 7
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 1: "The nation's fate..."
  2:17
• 8
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 1: "This is a petition"
  2:43
• 9
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 1: "What if it's a dud?"
  2:03
• 10
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 1: "The test must go on as scheduled"
  3:21
• 11
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 1: "No, before the bomb is used"
  4:07
• 12
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 2: "Am I in your light?"
  4:31
• 13
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 2: "Long let me inhale, deeply..."
  6:27
• 14
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 2: "The motive of it all was loneliness"
  4:25
• 15
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 3: Electrical storm
  2:18
• 16
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 3: "What the hell is wrong with the weather?"
  2:34
• 17
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 3: "Five hundred U.S. Superfortresses are raining bombs"
  4:07
• 18
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 3: "I'll sign the report, sir"
  1:19
• 19
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 3: "With respect, sir, anyone with two good eyes"
  3:01
• 20
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 3: "I have been preoccupied with many matters"
  2:32
• 21
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 3:  "Get them out of here. From now on, I'm making my own weather predictions"
  4:05
• 22
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 3: "General, you are bearing up with remarkable fortitude"
  3:18
• 23
  Doctor Atomic, Act I, Scene 3: "Batter my heart"
  7:34
• 24
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 1: "Easter Eve, 1945"
  11:60
• 25
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 1: Interlude - Rain over the Sangre de Cristo
  2:57
• 26
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 1: "In the north the cloud-flower blossoms"
  1:54
• 27
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 2:  "It's midnight, Jack"
  5:12
• 28
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 2: "I've dreamed the same dream"
  2:49
• 29
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 2: "To the farthest west, the sea and the striped country"
  3:36
• 30
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 2: "A delay in the Potsdam Ultimatum"
  1:01
• 31
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 2: "Fermi is taking wagers"
  2:16
• 32
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 2: "I've spent a great deal of time indulging in controlled fantasies"
  3:37
• 33
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 2: "Edward, the test will be delayed an hour"
  3:02
• 34
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 3: Panic
  2:53
• 35
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 3: "This program has been plagued from the start"
  1:30
• 36
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 3: "To keep the weakness secret"
  2:12
• 37
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 3: "I just finished reading The Magic Mountain"
  2:15
• 38
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 3: "The winter dawned, but the dead did not come back"
  1:54
• 39
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 3: "And love, which contains all human spirit"
  3:01
• 40
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 3: "The only saviors are the ham sandwiches"
  2:28
• 41
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 3: Chorus - "At the sight of this"
  4:42
• 42
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 4: "Lieutenant Bush, keep a weather eye on Oppenheimer"
  1:33
• 43
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 4: "To what benevolent demon do I owe the joy of being thus surrounded"
  2:42
• 44
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 4: "That's their signal!"
  2:18
• 45
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 4: "The sky is clear to the east"
  2:59
• 46
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 4: "In the midnight, in the flame-brilliant midnight"
  3:06
• 47
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 4: "Zero minus two minutes"
  1:04
• 48
  Doctor Atomic, Act II, Scene 4: Countdown
  6:05