Issued to celebrate John Adams’ 70th birthday, this handsomely curated set hails from performances given in 2016/2017 when Adams was Composer in Residence at the Berlin Philharmonic. Few of these recordings supplant their originals – Adams has been fortunate in first interpreters and came to maturity in a golden age of engineering – but that isn’t really the point. This is as good a retrospective as you are likely to hear, supplemented by first class essays by the likes of Alex Ross plus revealing video interview and performance footage, frustratingly for some only included on Blu-ray.