Browse by Artist: GLASS, PHILIP

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	How Now
Label:	MDG SCENE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MDG 6131600CD

"Always the same melody, forever the same rhythm... Philip Glass immediately sends his audiences into a trance, and Steffen Schleiermacher is the perfect interpreter of this composer's captivating will. The music of Philip Glass appears to be completely predictable. Already after a few minutes it becomes clear that the note flow will continue undisturbed, that no additional element will produce modifications. The clever alternation between duple and triple time simultaneously creates the impression of variability in the metrical pulse of the music without adherence to an identifiable plan. Glass seems to compose out of a box of building blocks, with prefabricated parts -- but always makes for surprises. Philip Glass composed these work for his own ensemble. He wanted to perform them with various keyboards, saxophones, clarinets, and flutes and without having to rely on the services of specific musicians. He did not supply any further instructions, and Steffen Schleiermacher fully avails himself of this freedom. For this recording he played How Now on the piano. He presents the two other pieces -- Music In Fifths and Music In Similar Motion -- in a version for several electric keyboards recorded in succession and then mixed. In compliance with 'historical performance practice' he chose only those sound registers coming close to the Farfisa organs typifying the 1960s."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Symphony No. 6 - Plutonian Ode
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 020CD

"Philip Glass' Symphony No. 6 - Plutonian Ode was co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Brucknerhaus Linz to celebrate the composer's 65th birthday. The work's libretto was written by his late friend, Allen Ginsberg. Glass explains, 'During the last ten years of Allen's life we had performed frequently together in poetry/music collaborations. Allen was a superb reader of his own work and I was often inspired to compose new piano music for these occasional collaborations. In the case of Hydrogen Jukebox, we developed an evening length opera which was designed by Jerome Sirlin and directed by Ann Carlson. We presented that work in over 30 cities as part of an international tour. It had been our plan to make a new, major collaboration based on his epic poem Plutonium Ode (1978). Before he died in 1997, Allen had made several recordings for me of the poem in preparation for the new work. At that time I had in mind simply an extended piano work to accompany Allen in live performance. I put aside the project in 1997, feeling that I wouldn't want to go ahead without Allen. A few years past and the commission of a new symphony from Carnegie Hall and the Brucknerhaus Linz reawakened my interest in the project. I felt, then, that Plutonium Ode was unfinished business between Allen and myself and this would be the opportunity to complete it. By then, the piano music I had originally imagined had grown to a full orchestra and Allen's resonant speaking voice to a lyric soprano. The three movements of the symphony follow the three parts of the poem, and follow, also, the passage of the poem -- the first movement is a passionate outcry against nuclear contamination and pollution, the second a turn towards healing, and the final movement an epiphany arrived at through personal transformation.' This new world-premiere recording from Orange Mountain, performed by soprano Lauren Flanigan accompanied by the Bruckner Orchester Linz conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, brings this powerful work to life. As a special bonus, the set includes a disc of Allen Ginsburg reading the original poem."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Glasscuts - Philip Glass Remixed
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 023CD

"It has been said that Philip Glass is the 'Godfather of Trance' and evidence of that is found in the remixes that a number of young producers/musicians began sending to Orange Mountain Music as early as 2002. These unsolicited mixes became the genesis for Glasscuts - Philip Glass Remixed. This CD presents a very diverse program without any one dominant style. The artists are Androoval from Uruguay, Robert Bell from Australia, impLOG from the US, Woody McBride, DJ ESP from the US, Marcos Romero from Uruguay, Kate Simko from the US, Dietrich Schoenemann from the US, Luciano Supervielle from Uruguay and Dave Wesley from the US. We invite you to immerse yourself in Glasscuts - Philip Glass Remixed with open ears to experience a Glass that is reminiscent of the past, but with an adventurous contemporary twist."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Uakti: Aguas da Amazonia
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 026CD

"Philip Glass's serious work in the field of world music was recognized long before the term entered the popular vocabulary. One of his most fruitful projects was with Brazilian ensemble Uakti (pronounced wah-keh-chee). Over the last twenty years, award winning experimental group Uakti has developed a major international following. Constructing all their own instruments, Uakti takes their name from a character from Brazilian Indian legends who had holes all over his body and as he ran through the forest, the wind passed through his body making fantastic unusual sounds. After being introduced to Glass by Paul Simon, Uakti and Glass composed a work together for Grupo Corpo, a Brazilian dance company. The result was Aguas da Amazonia -- an aural journey through the waters of the Amazon."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Analog
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 029CD

Unreleased recordings from the late 70s, performed by Glass (Farfisa, Yamaha & Hammond organs, Fender Rhodes piano, Arp synthesizer). "New release which contains three seminal works in Glass's musical history. In the late 1970s, Philip Glass was asked by two film producers, Francois de Menil and Barbara Rose, to write music for a film they were producing. The film was Mark di Suervo, Sculptor and it was Glass's first film score, predating even Koyaanisqatsi. The score took its titles from the names of di Suervo sculptures shown in the film, including Etoile Polaire (North Star) and others. The disc also includes 'Dressed Like an Egg' -- a never before released early Glass score which was written as incidental music to a Mabou Mines Theater Company production in 1977. The disc is rounded out with another never-before-heard recording of Glass' 'Mad Rush' for organ. The work was originally used by choreographer Lucinda Childs for a dance of the same name. All the performances on Analog feature original performances by Philip Glass on electric organ."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Glass Reflections
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 032CD

"In 1999, composer Philip Glass heard a movement of his third symphony played by the Cello Octet Conjunto Ib�rico in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and he was greatly impressed. Inspired by the composer's support, conductor Elias Arizcuren created an entire program of Glass works transcribed for his ensemble. The result is Orange Mountain's new CD Glass Reflections which features works from the entire range of Glass' compositional activities including the concert hall, theater, opera and film. The disc includes selections from his opera Akhnaten, his incidental music for Samuel Beckett's Company, the breathtaking third movement of the third symphony, and selections from film scores to Mishima and Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Dracula
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 033CD

"In 2004, Orange Mountain Music released an album of solo piano transcriptions of Philip Glass' Oscar and Golden Globe nominated score to The Hours. These transcriptions were done by Glass' longtime music director and pianist Michael Riesman. Riesman's solo piano transcription of the score to The Hours proved so successful that Orange Mountain Music was inspired to approach Riesman again to make an arrangement of Glass' haunting score to Todd Browning's 1931 classic Dracula, which starred Bela Lugosi. Glass' original score was written for string quartet and was recorded and toured by the Kronos Quartet. This new arrangement of the score is treated to a truly virtuosic performance by Michael Riesman and includes a previously-unrecorded track which was composed by Glass but was left out of the soundtrack recording. Riesman's extraordinary playing brings life and phenomenal craftsmanship to a seemingly timeless musical score."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Alter Ego Performs Philip Glass
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	2CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 034CD

"During the 1960s and '70s, Philip Glass established himself as a leading artistic voice by creating a new musical language in the downtown loft spaces of New York's Soho district. Forty years later, Glass' early revolutionary music continues to appeal to younger generations as evidenced by Orange Mountain Music's latest release, Alter Ego Performs Philip Glass. 2006 marks the Italian new music ensemble Alter Ego's 15th anniversary as an ensemble. Across Europe, they are widely recognized as pioneers of new and experimental music. On this specially-priced two-disc set, the group performs seminal Glass works including 4 world-premiere recordings. Featured pieces include 'How Now,' '600 Lines,' 'Piece in the Shape of a Square,' 'Gradus,' 'Music in Similar Motion,' 'Strung Out' and 'Music in Contrary Motion' with a total length of over 135 minutes of glorious music."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Music With Changing Parts
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 035CD

"Icebreaker's newest release, Philip Glass' Music with Changing Parts is representative of an exciting new generation's interest in one of the most important composers of our time. Icebreaker is considered by many to be the United Kingdom's leading new music ensemble. The 13-piece group, which tours extensively, has been an active champion of many of today's most important composers. Philip Glass' 1970 score for Music with Changing Parts has been part of the group's touring repertoire for years. This recording brings a vivid re-imagining and fresh interpretation to one of Glass' greatest scores. The work marked a turning point in Glass' career and contains many characteristics of the composer's breakthrough works of the 1970s including 'Music in 12 Parts' and 'Einstein on the Beach.' Icebreaker's performance can be firmly placed in the virtuoso chamber tradition established by the original Philip Glass Ensemble."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	The Concerto Project Vol. III
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 042CD

Performed by Rasch�r Saxophone Quartet, Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, conducted by Dennis Russell Davie. "The Concerto Project Vol. III is the penultimate installment in a series documenting the eight Glass concertos. Each movement of the Concerto Grosso -- performed by the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn led by Dennis Russell Davies -- is written for a distinctive group of instruments: the winds, the brass, the strings, which together make up a symphonic ensemble. The Concerto for Saxophone Quartet was commissioned by the internationally-renowned Rasch�r Saxophone Quartet who performs the work here in an alternate version Glass conceived to be played without the orchestra."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Theater Music Archive Volume I
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 044CD

"From the Philip Glass Archive -- Theater Music Archive Volume I represents the first release in a series of 10 discs to be released on Orange Mountain Music from the vast archive of recordings made in the last 40 years of Philip Glass' incredible recording career. These recordings span the entire range of Philip Glass' compositional activities and will include music for film, theater, dance, and concert hall in a wide variety of scores including chamber music, solo instruments and orchestral works. Theater Music Archive Volume 1 features two ravishingly beautiful works from the world of theater: the instrumental suite from Glass' 2003 chamber opera 'The Sound of a Voice' features Eastern and Western instruments in one of Glass' most creative scores. 'In the Summer House' is the original music composed for the Jane Bowles' 1953 play. This release contains an incredibly rare chance to hear premiere recordings of works by one of the most successful composer of our times in the most intimate context. Orange Mountain Music seeks to bring many of these works to the public for the first time in the continuing effort to expand and document the Philip Glass recording legacy."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Orchestral Music Recording Archive Vol. II
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 047CD

"In a continuing endeavor to expand and document the Philip Glass recorded legacy, Orange Mountain Music presents the second volume of works from the composer's archive. The program features two vivid orchestral scores: 'Day and Nights in Rocinha,' a luscious musical tribute to a Brazilian neighborhood, performed by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies, and 'Persephone,' the score for a 1994 Robert Wilson theatrical installation, in a tour de force performance by the instruments and voices of the Rel�che Ensemble, led by Joseph Franklin."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Film Scores: Jenipapo Recording Archive Vol. III
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 048CD

"Philip Glass's original score to Monique Gardenberg's 1995 political thriller Jenipapo, starring Henry Czerny, brought the composer another opportunity to write against the backdrop of the Brazilian landscape and the tumult of political upheaval. The story of the film follows a reporter in his search to track down an influential priest who has gone silent during a political battle over Brazil's forests. Glass' score reflects the political implications of the film as well as the vast canvas against which it is set. With this release, Orange Mountain Music continues its 'From the Philip Glass Recording Archive' series which seeks to document and expand the composer's recorded legacy."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Music In Twelve Parts
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	4CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	OMM 049CD

"Philip Glass' Music In Twelve Parts may be the most seminal work of the minimalist movement. The entire four-hour piece has come to be viewed as a summation of all of Glass' achievements of the period and came to inform many of the composer's later works. A massive piece written for the composer's own group of musicians, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Music In Twelve Parts was recorded by the group in Rovereto, Italy in 2006, more than 30 years after the premiere at New York City's Town Hall. For the first time, this four disc boxed set contains a recording of the entire work unabridged performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble with the composer on keyboards."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Philip Glass Soundtracks - Michael Riesman
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 051CD

"Michael Riesman is the conductor and producer of nearly every Philip Glass soundtrack recording. Riesman has artfully served Glass' music as a producer, conductor, transcriber and pianist. This disc presents his own transcriptions for solo piano of some of the best Philip Glass film scores. Included are the entire scores to The Hours and the Glass score to Dracula, which in concert, he performs live-to-film. Philip Glass' Soundtracks includes many new suites and transcriptions, including music which has never been heard before, including No Reservations, A Brief History Of Time, Anima Mundi, Neverwas, Candyman and much more."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Film Scores: Neverwas Recording Archive Vol. IV
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 052CD

"Philip Glass' score to the film Neverwas is the fourth release from the Philip Glass Recording Archive. Neverwas, a film starring Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Nolte, Brittany Murphy, Jessica Lange and William Hurt, is a fantasy-mystery with a bold, playful and fantastical score by Philip Glass. The film never received wide distribution and was largely forgotten. The 53-minute film score (composed the same year the composer's celebrated music for The Hours) possesses some of Glass' most accessible and heartfelt music."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Glass: A Portrait Of Philip In Twelve Parts
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 054CD

"For eighteen months, director Scott Hicks (Shine, No Reservations) followed composer Philip Glass around with a video camera capturing all aspects of his life. His film provides an intimate look at Glass as a family man, delves into his spiritual life and produces some insights on how he composes music. Orange Mountain Music's soundtrack to Glass: A Portrait Of Philip In Twelve Parts contains much of the music from the film including a wide variety of music from every part of Philip Glass's career. Included on this collection are selections from Einstein On The Beach, Etoile Polaire, Glass' music for solo piano and more."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	In The Upper Room
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 056CD

"In The Upper Room is a collaboration between choreographer Twyla Tharp and composer Philip Glass. This new disc marks the first complete recording of the 1986 ballet. The first recording of the work, released on Sony's Dance Pieces, presented only five of the work's nine movements. Also, Sony's disc heavily reinforced the acoustic instruments with synthesized tracks, presumably to artificially thicken the orchestral sound. This new, definitive recording uses only acoustic instruments, as the composer originally intended."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Koyaanisqatsi
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 058CD

"The new release from Philip Glass' record label Orange Mountain Music presents, for the first time, the complete original soundtrack from the classic Godfrey Reggio film Koyaanisqatsi. The LP release of this Glass score was released in the 1980s in a severely truncated form with only 6 tracks and 45 minutes of music. This newly re-mastered recording features thirteen tracks and over 76 minutes of content including original sound-effects and additional music used in the film. This version of Koyaanisqatsi is the most complete and representative recording of the soundtrack to this seminal film. The music is performed here by the Philip Glass Ensemble conducted by Michael Riesman and produced by Kurt Munkacsi."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Volume V: The Secret Agent
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 059CD

"The Secret Agent is a watershed score in Philip Glass' career in writing for film. Based on a novel by Joseph Conrad, Christopher Hampton's independent 1995 film exposes the confused motives that lie at the heart of political terrorism. Glass' score for the film is lushly romantic and expressionistic. Christopher Hampton, the film's director and screenwriter, is also known for his stage and screen versions of Dangerous Liaisons and more recently for his screenplay to the award-winning Atonement. Hampton and Glass also collaborated on librettos for Waiting for the Barbarians and Appomattox."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Piano Music
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 060CD

"Continuing his long-time association with Philip Glass, this new release features pianist Dennis Russell Davies teaming with pianist Maki Namekawa in the world premiere recording of Four Movements for Two Pianos, a major work for two pianos by one of the most recognized composers of our time. The disc is enriched by Davies' performance of the six original Etudes for Piano which were written for the pianist in the mid-1990s. Rounding out the album is a solo performance by Namekawa playing three selections from Glass' Oscar(r)-nominated score to the 2002 film The Hours."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Symphony No. 7 - Toltec
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 061CD

"Orange Mountain Music presents the world-premiere recording of Philip Glass' seventh symphony, the Toltec, performed by the Bruckner Orchester Linz conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. Written in 2004, the symphony is Glass' dedication to the Toltec civilization that lived in Mesoamerica from 500 B.C. to 500 A.D. The work is comprised of three representations (movements) of this Wirrarika culture's sacred trinity: The Corn, The Hikuri (Sacred Root) and The Blue Deer. The piece was originally commissioned and performed by Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	A Madrigal Opera
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 062CD

"Orange Mountain Music presents the world premiere recording of Philip Glass' A Madrigal Opera performed by Finland's Ooppera Skaala. Glass' second opera after the landmark Einstein on the Beach, A Madrigal Opera contains no narrative or subject matter. It is a work composed for future writers and directors to create in and around Glass score. It is structured like a traditional madrigal, with six voices and violin and viola accompaniment. Written in 1979, the work represented a huge musical step for the composer as he moved toward a more expressive idiom which later produced works like Satyagraha and Koyaanisqatsi."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Itaipu And Three Songs For Choir a Capella
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 063CD

"Itaipu is a large scale work for orchestra and chorus composed by Philip Glass for the Atlanta Symphony and was premiered there under the baton of Robert Shaw in 1989. Orange Mountain Music presents this re-mastered recording of the work (originally released on RCM) featuring the renowned Los Angeles Master Chorale under the direction of Grant Gershon. Itaipu, a symphonic portrait for chorus and orchestra, was inspired by the giant hydroelectric dam in Brazil and is part of a series of the composer's works involving depictions of man's relationship to nature. The libretto is taken from the creation myth of the Guarani, and is sung in the Guarani language. The album is rounded out by the Crouch End Festival Chorus performing Philip Glass' Three Songs for Choir a Cappella (originally issued on Silva Screen) set to texts by Leonard Cohen, Raymond Levesque and Octavio Paz."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	The Orange Mountain Music Philip Glass Sampler
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	OMM 064CD

"Orange Mountain Music presents a specially-priced sampler that surveys the great variety of Philip Glass' music drawn from the label's extensive catalog. This twenty-one track disc presents Glass' music written for an incredible assortment of media including film (Koyaanisqatsi, The Hours, Dracula, Candyman, The Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line), opera (Orph�e, Waiting for the Barbarians, The Witches of Venice), concert works (Saxophone Quartet Concerto, Piano Concerto No.2) and much more."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	The Philip Glass Ensemble -- A Retrospective
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	OMM 067CD

"Orange Mountain Music presents The Philip Glass Ensemble -- A Retrospective, a two disc set of repertoire from the group's forty-year career. Previously released as an iTunes only download, this live recording from a concert in Monterey Mexico in 2006 features music from Music in 12 Parts, In the Upper Room, Koyaanisqatsi, Einstein on the Beach, The Photographer, Glassworks, Powaqqatsi, and much more, with a total time of over 100 minutes of music. The Philip Glass Ensemble was formed in the late 1960s as a vehicle for Philip Glass' new music. The ensemble has consistently toured the world performing Glass' compositions, including complete performances of the seminal Music in 12 Parts, and as the 'orchestra' for the most groundbreaking opera of the 20th Century, Einstein on the Beach."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Orph�e
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	OMM 068CD

"Orange Mountain Music presents the world premiere recording of Philip Glass' opera Orph�e, performed by a renowned cast of soloists including Philip Cutlip as Orph�e, Lisa Saffer as la Princesse and the Portland Opera Orchestra conducted by Anne Manson. Written in 1993, Orph�e was the first of a trilogy of operas that Glass composed on subjects by Jean Cocteau that includes La Belle et la B�te and Les Enfants Terribles. Orph�e is the last to the trilogy to be recorded, and receives fine treatment here with a Michael Riesman produced recording made from a series of live performances that took place in November 2009. This two-disc set includes a deluxe digipack, full libretto in French and English, color production photos and cast and performer biographies. The storyline is based on Cocteau's fascinating retelling of the Orpheus myth -- an extended parable on the life of an artist, a poet harassed and misunderstood by peers."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Kepler
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	2CD
Price:	$38.00
Catalog #:	OMM 071CD

"Philip Glass' opera Kepler in many ways harkens back to Glass' portrait operas of the early 1980s and continues the composer's interest in scientists after having also written operas on Einstein and Galileo. The opera premiered at the Landestheater Linz in 2009 and continues the amazing 30 year collaboration between Glass and the conductor Dennis Russell Davies, the music director of both the Landestheater Linz and its orchestra, the Bruckner Orchester. Kepler marks a refreshing return to large scale symphonic writing for the opera house. It is a musical dedication to the life of this great scientist -- exploring both his triumphs and his human flaws. As Glass states, 'Kepler was a man with his mind in the clouds and his feet in the mud.' Taken from live performances in 2010 during its extensive run in Linz, this is the world premiere recording. It is sung in German and Latin and contains the full libretto with English translation in the deluxe two disc digipack."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Violin Concerto No.2 - The American Four Seasons
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 072CD

"Orange Mountain Music presents Philip Glass' second violin concerto, subtitled The American Four Seasons, performed by violinist Robert McDuffie accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Marin Alsop. This live performance was captured on the occasion of the UK premiere of the work in the spring of 2010. The concerto is in four movements, with each movement preceded by a piece for solo violin comprised of a prologue and three songs. The strings-only orchestra is complemented by a synthesizer producing a sound palette that harkens back to the Philip Glass of the 1970s. The American Four Seasons was commissioned by McDuffie to act as a companion piece to Vivaldi's Four Seasons concertos, which are among the most performed and recorded works in the history of music."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Glassworks: Live at Le Poisson Rouge
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 073CD

"Glassworks had never been performed live in its entirety in New York City until the fast-rising new music ensemble Signal asked Philip Glass Ensemble music director Michael Riesman to arrange the classic album for live performance. The concert took place at New York's hottest new music venue [le] Poisson Rouge with Riesman and Signal on April 12, 2010. This recording features a new version of the entire score, also paired with Signal's riveting performance of Glass's early score 'Music in Similar Motion.'"

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	2CD
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	OMM 074CD

"On this new set from Orange Mountain, the fast-rising New York-based ensemble Brooklyn Rider performs the complete works for string quartet by Philip Glass. The set includes the world premiere recording of a suite from Glass' score to Sean Mathias' 1997 film Bent, which starred Mick Jagger, Clive Owen and Ian McKellen. Most of Glass' string quartets are programmatic in nature. The second quartet was written for the Samuel Beckett play Company and the third accompanied Paul Schrader's film on the life of Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The fourth is an elegy in remembrance of artist Paul Buczak. Glass' remarkable first quartet was an early work, written in 1966."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	NYU Steel Plays Philip Glass
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 075CD

"In 1998, percussionist Jonathan Haas commissioned Philip Glass to compose a concerto. The Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpani has turned out to be one of Glass's most frequently performed concert works. Haas worked closely with Josh Quillen and NYU Steel to create the arrangements and recording of Philip Glass' piano Etudes on steel drums. The result is a fantastic re-imagining of Glass' music, giving new light to the color and structure of this very popular repertoire."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Cello Concerto No. 1
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 076CD

"Philip Glass' 2001 Concerto No.1 for Cello and Orchestra has a unique story. Following the terror attacks in New York in September 2001, Glass was discouraged from traveling in the immediate aftermath and consequently missed the world premi�re of the work in Beijing in October with cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. It was not until 2007 that Glass had the chance to hear the work live in the concert hall when Wendy Sutter performed the US premi�re in California. Glass encouraged Sutter to perform the work extensively and this recording was made during a tour with the Orchestra of the Americas."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	The Concerto Project, Vol. IV
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	OMM 077CD

"Orange Mountain's fourth volume documenting the concertos by Philip Glass features the world premiere recording of the composer's 2010 Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, performed by violinist Tim Fain and cellist Wendy Sutter. The work originated as a commission from the Nederlans Dans Theater for a new dance piece choreographed by Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon. It is an exciting tour-de-force with three orchestral movements enveloped in duets by the soloists. The second work on this disc is Glass's first piano concerto, the Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra from 2000. It is performed by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra with Dennis Russell Davies as conductor and soloist."

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Kepler
Label:	ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Format:	DVD
Price:	$28.00
Catalog #:	OMM 5004DVD

"Mountain Music's recording of Philip Glass' opera Kepler is now available on DVD. The opera was filmed by Austrian Broadcasting in 2009 and broadcast on Austrian and German television in 2010. The DVD presents the full opera, filmed in HD, sung in German and Latin with German, Latin and English subtitles. The opera explores the life of scientist Johannes Kepler, continuing Glass' interest in scientists following operas on Einstein and Galileo. Performed by Landestheater Linz with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under Dennis Russell Davies, Kepler is a refreshing return to large-scale symphonic writing for the opera house." All-region NTSC format: 120 minutes.

Artist:	GLASS, PHILIP
Title:	Complete String Quartets
Label:	SIGNUM U.K. (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$38.00
Catalog #:	SIG 117CD

String Quartet No. 1 (1966); String Quartet No. 2 "Company"; String Quartet No. 3 "MISHIMA"; String Quartet No. 4 "BUCZAK"; String Quartet No. 5. The Smith Quartet: Ian Humphries, Darragh Morgan, violins; Nic Pendlebury, viola; Deirdre Cooper, cello. "Following on from the critically acclaimed albums, Different Trains and Ghost Stories, Signum is pleased to announce the release of The Smith Quartet's latest album, the complete string quartets by the world-acclaimed composer, Philip Glass. Over a time span of 25 years, Glass completed 8 quartets (the 3 earliest were withdrawn) drawing on the influences of Bach to Shostakovich, as well as exterior musical sources: dance, theatre and film. Clear-cut, polished performances by The Smith Quartet give the listener an excellent taster of a quartet at the forefront of contemporary music."

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