The musical style of Philip Glass (b. 1937) became widely recognizable by the 1990s, if not earlier. Many lesser composers imitated him (and still imitate him) and he has obviously become one of the more important figures in late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century music. He has more than a few detractors, though, who hear his music ...
The Naxos label diverges from its usual plain graphic design with this attempt to create the idea of an "alternative classical" genre, an idea that has paid big dividends when applied to rock and country music. Most of the selections are drawn from existing Naxos releases, with a few taken from discs by Denmark's Da Capo and Germany's CPO labels. ...
The Heroes Symphony of Philip Glass is one of two symphonies he wrote based on albums by David Bowie (the other is the Low Symphony). This recording by Marin Alsop, one of Britain's (and now America's) most talked-about conductors, suggests that the idea has been successful enough to move beyond the usual Glass orbit and into conventional ...
Naxos' American Classics series has here gotten around to two Philip Glass symphonies not long after their premiere recordings on Nonesuch. Philip Glass: Symphonies No. 2 and 3 combines two works from the 1990s that are more or less not in the vein that made Glass popular, which is a good thing if the insistent patterning and repetition of his ...
BAM! It's probably not the way you'd expect the Eighth Symphony from a composer often associated with altered, hypnotic states to begin. Glass' style has evolved significantly, though -- especially over the last few years. Speaking about his recent commission from the Bruckner Orchester Linz, Glass states, in his own liner notes, that the "the ...
In celebration of Gidon Kremer's 60th birthday, Deutsche Grammophon released a substantial double-disc compilation in 2007, The Many Musics of Gidon Kremer, a highly rewarding retrospective that pays tribute to this versatile violinist's phenomenal talent, wide range of interests, and depth of experience. A seasoned virtuoso who has been active ...
Monsters of Grace, the 1997 Philip Glass/Robert Wilson collaboration, marked a new direction for Wilson; this opera consisted of an animated film accompanied by singers in the pit with the instrumentalists rather than on-stage. Difficulties in communicating Wilson's vision to the animators left both collaborators dissatisfied with the result, and ...
This CD presents several piano works by Philip Glass, played with grace and enthusiasm by Aleck Karis. Wichita Vortex Sutra (1988) was inspired by the poem of the same title by Allen Ginsburg from 1966, which alternates between images of a road across the U.S. and a protest against the war in Vietnam. The basis of the music is a simple Protestant ...
The lush harmonies and rhapsodic lyricism of Philip Glass' mature works may attract many listeners, especially those who enjoy his warm, neo-Romantic music more than his hard-edged, minimalist pieces of the 1970s. Both the Concerto for cello and orchestra and the Concerto Fantasy for two tympanists and orchestra offer grand ideas in their ...
Although most of us have come to know the music of Philip Glass through one recording or another, he came rather late to utilizing recording as a means to aid composition -- the recordings on Orange Mountain Music's Analog, his first multi-track recordings, date from 1977 and 1980. Overall, Glass doesn't seem to have used such techniques often for ...
The program notes for this CD begin with a quote from British visual artist Michael Craig Martin: "Minimalism presents the viewer with objects of charged neutrality...objects that are without any hierarchy of interest...objects that reveal everything about themselves, but little about the artist." If that can be taken as an adequate definition of ...
This low-budget Philip Glass opera, Les enfants Terribles, is based on a novel and play by Jean Cocteau, forming the third ring in Glass' trilogy of works devoted to the elaborate personal mythology of the great French visionary. Foregoing the controversial and dualistic 1949 film of Les enfants Terribles made by Jean-Pierre Melville, Glass ...
Except for his string quartets, Philip Glass' chamber music for non-electronic instruments is rarely performed, so it's a pleasure to have two substantial examples of his music for chamber ensembles on this Orange Mountain release. The first volume of Glass' Theater Music includes incidental music he wrote for David Henry Hwang's The Sound of a ...
This 2004 release from Orange Mountain Music of works for two pianos by Steve Reich and Philip Glass is a fairly representative package, but because of its brevity and narrow musical interest, it may only attract the most die-hard fans of minimalism. Both Reich and Glass have instantly recognizable musical signatures, and these pieces are easy-to ...
One of Philip Glass' great achievements aside from his role as a minimalist pioneer has been his successful effort to establish the composer and associated ensemble as a viable musico-economic model. For many years performances of his music usually involved his Philip Glass Ensemble, but this profusion of recordings of his music by independent ...
Philip Glass has always been canny about finding venues for his music, and this has helped him realize large-scale projects like his operas of the 1970s and 1980s. In the years since then, even if he has not made something personal about his minimalist language in the way that his contemporary Steve Reich has, he has realized that his style can be ...
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