David Robertson's account of Adam's incredible Harmonielehre captures the driving pulse of this beautiful modern masterpiece. From bar 1 of part 1, his tempos distinguish this recording from Rattle's and de Waart's. Robertson is a great champion of modern music without him many of these modern gems would not see the light of day, let alone be recorded--thank you Maestro Robertson and the SLSO! Please ignore the previous two reviewers squabbling about a few bucks; this a great recording worth every penny.

Half an album of this is twice too much. Better to just skip over it.

The music is fine, if you like Adams' work. The issue I have is this recent trend for record labels to offer full-priced albums with only forty or fity minutes worth of music on it. There needs to be a perceived value or folks won't be as apt to purchase. The running time of this ten-dollar album is just a bit over forty minutes. Surely, this should be worth about six or seven bucks, you think?