Hallelujah Junction

Nonesuch releases Pulitzer Prize–winning composer John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony on July 21, 2009. A purely instrumental work, the piece is drawn from Adams’s opera Doctor Atomic. David Robertson conducts the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra on this recording. Said the New York Times: '[T]he score invites you to hear the music—driving passages with pounding timpani, quizzically restrained lyrical flights, bursts of skittish fanfares—on its own terms, apart from its dramatic context.' Also on the album is Adams’ 2001 piece, Guide to Strange Places.