John Adams: I Am Love soundtrack

Italian film-director Luca Guadagnino apparently spent 10 years pursuing the American composer John Adams to secure his involvement in I Am Love ( Io sono l'amore ) starring Tilda Swinton. Whether or not you see the film, which Guadagnino shaped with Adams in mind, this soundtrack is a rewarding digest of the Pulitzer winner's musical styles: the foxtrot from "Chairman Dances", two Shaker Loops , the Desert Chorus from Death of Klinghoffer and Parts II and III of Harmonielehre . Given the large scale of so many of Adams's works, this sampler of Nonesuch recordings, blessed by his own hands, makes for practical, as well as musical, enjoyment.