Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass (2011)


BROOKLYN RIDER
Brooklyn Rider Performs Philip Glass
Orange Mountain Music OMM0074

CD 1

Suite for "Bent" for String Quartet
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V
6. VI
7. VII
8. VIII

String Quartet No.3 "Mishima"
9. I. "1957: Award Montage"
10. II. "November 25: Ichigaya"
11. III. "Grandmother and Kimitake"
12. IV. "1962: Body Building"
13. V. "Blood Oath"
14. VI. "Mishima / Closing"

String Quartet No.1
1. I
2. II

CD 2

String Quartet No.4 "Buczak"
1. I
2. II
3. III

String Quartet No.2 "Company"
4. I
5. II
6. III
7. IV

String Quartet No.5
8. I
9. II
10. III
11. IV
12. V

BROOKLYN RIDER
Johnny Gandelsman, violin
Colin Jacobsen, violin
Nicholas Cords, viola
Eric Jacobsen, cello

Carducci Quartet - Philip Glass String Quartets Nos.1-4 (2010)


CARDUCCI QUARTET
Philip Glass String Quartets Nos.1-4
Naxos 8.559636

String Quartet No.2 "Company"
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV

String Quartet No.3 "Mishima"
5. I. "1957: Award Montage"
6. II. "November 25: Ichigaya"
7. III. "Grandmother and Kimitake"
8. IV. "1962: Body Building"
9. V. "Blood Oath"
10. VI. "Mishima / Closing"

String Quartet No.1
11. I
12. II

String Quartet No.4 "Buczak"
13. I
14. II
15. III

CARDUCCI QUARTET
Matthew Denton, violin
Michelle Fleming, violin
Eoin Schmidt-Martin, viola
Emma Denton, cello

Paul Klee 4tet - Philip Glass Quartets (2008)


PAUL KLEE 4TET
Philip Glass Quartets
Blue Serge BLS015


String Quartet No.1
1. I
2. II

String Quartet No.2 "Company"
3. I
4. II
5. III
6. IV

String Quartet No.3 "Mishima"
7. I. "1957: Award Montage"
8. II. "November 25: Ichigaya"
9. III. "Grandmother and Kimitake"
10. IV. "1962: Body Building"
11. V. "Blood Oath"
12. VI. "Mishima / Closing"

String Quartet No.4 "Buczak"
13. I
14. II
15. III

String Quartet No.5
16. I
17. II
18. III
19. IV
20. V
PAUL KLEE QUARTET
Alessandro Fagiuoli, violin
Stefano Antonello, violin
Andrea Amendola, viola
Luca Paccagnella, cello

The Smith Quartet - Philip Glass Complete String Quartets (2008)


THE SMITH QUARTET
Philip Glass Complete String Quartets
Signum Classics SIGCD117


CD 1

String Quartet No.3 "Mishima"
1. I. "1957: Award Montage"
2. II. "November 25: Ichigaya"
3. III. "Grandmother and Kimitake"
4. IV. "1962: Body Building"
5. V. "Blood Oath"
6. VI. "Mishima / Closing (End Credits"

String Quartet No.2 "Company"
7. I
8. II
9. III
10. IV

String Quartet No.4 "Buczak"
11. I
12. II
13. III

CD 2

String Quartet No.1
1. I. Part 1
2. II. Part 2

String Quartet No.5
3. I
4. II
5. III
6. IV
7. V

THE SMITH QUARTET
Ian Humphries, violin.
Darragh Morgan, violin
Nic Pendlebury, viola
Deirdre Cooper, cello

The Duke Quartet - Barber Dvorak Glass (1993)


THE DUKE QUARTET
Barber Dvorak Glass
Collins Classics 13862


SAMUEL BARBER
String Quartet, Op.11
1. Molto allegro e appassionato
2. Molto adagio
3. Molto adagio (come prima)

ANTONIN DVORAK
String Quartet in F major, Op.96 "American"
4. Allegro ma non troppo
5. Lento
6. Molto vivace
7. Finale - vivace ma non troppo

PHILIP GLASS
String Quartet No.1
8. Part One
9. (Ambient Pause)
10. Part Two

THE DUKE QUARTET
Louisa Fuller, violin
Rick Koster, violin
John Metcalfe, viola
Ivan McCready, cello

Monday, January 30, 2012

London Gabrielli Brass Ensemble - From the Steeples and the Mountains (1991)


LONDON GABRIELLI BRASS ENSEMBLE
From the Steeples and the Mountains
Hyperion CDA66517



CHARLES IVES
1. From the Steeples and the Mountains [4'24]

SAMUEL BARBER
2. Mutations from Bach [5'41]

ROY HARRIS
3. Chorale for Organ and Brass [12'49]

VIRGIL THOMPSON
Family Portrait
4. A Fanfare: Robin Smith [0'41]
5. At Fourteen: Annie Barnard [2'18]
6. Digging: A Portrait of Howard Rea [3'18]
7. A Scherzo: Priscila Rea [2'55]
8. Man of Iron: Willie Eisenhart [2'17]

HENRY COWELL
9. Grinnell Fanfare [3'05]

HENRY COWELL
10. Tall Tale [4'19]

HENRY COWELL
Hymn and Fuguing Tune No.12
11. Hymn [2'24]
12. Fuguing Tune [2'03]

HENRY COWELL
13. Rondo [4'45]

PHILIP GLASS
Brass Sextet
14. Hymn [2'09]
15. Ballad [3'14]
16. Finale [2'04]

CARL RUGGLES
17. Angels [3'06]

ELLIOTT CARTER
18. A Fantasy about Purcell's Fantasia upon One Note [3'15]

CHARLES IVES
19. Processional: Let there be Light [2'42]

THE LONDON GABRIELLI BRASS ENSEMBLE

TRUMPETS: William Houghton, Joseph Atkins, Michael Laird, Crispian Steele-Perkins
HORNS: David Lee, Christopher Larkin, Michael Murray, Richard Clews, Robert McKintosh
TROMBONES: James Casey, Christopher Mowat, Michael Hext, Peter Harvey
TUBE: Stephen Wick
ORGAN: Christopher Bowers-Broadbent
TIMPANI & BELLS: John Chimes, Kevin Nutty
BELLS: Terence Emery, Kevin Nutty
VIOLINS: Sydney Sax, Roy Gillard, John Ronayne, James McLeod

Christopher Larkin, conductor.

Jeroen Van Veen - Minimal Piano Collection (2006)



JEROEN VAN VEEN
Minimal Piano Collection
Brilliant Classics 8551


CD 1

PHILIP GLASS
1. Opening from ‘Glassworks’
2. Metamorphosis One
3. Metamorphosis Two
4. Metamorphosis Three
5. Metamorphosis Four
6. Metamorphosis Five
7. Mad Rush
8. Wichita Vortex Sutra
9. Opening from ‘Glassworks’

CD 2

PHILIP GLASS
1. The Poet Acts
2. Morning Passages
3. Something She Has To Do
4. I’m Going To Make A Cake
5. An Unwelcome Friend
6. Dead Things
7. Why Does Someone Have to Die?
8. Tearing Herself Away
9. Escape!
10. Choosing Life
11. The Hours
12. Truman Sleeps, from ‘The Truman Show’
13. Opening from ‘Glassworks’
14. Olympian

CD 3

PHILIP GLASS
1. Modern Love Waltz
2. How Now
3. 'Trilogy’ Sonata; I Knee Play No. 4 from Einstein on the Beach
4. ‘Trilogy’ Sonata; II Satyagraha, Conclusion, Act III
5. ‘Trilogy’ Sonata; III Dance, from Aknaten (Scene 3)

CD 4

JOHN ADAMS
1. China Gates

ARVO PÄRT
2. Für Alina
3. Variationen zur Gesundung von Arinuschka

JOHN CAGE
4. In a Landscape 8:53

SIMEON TEN HOLT
5. Solodevilsdance IV

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
6. Das ‘Fragment an sich’

ERIK SATIE
7. Vexations

JOHN BORSTLAP
8. Avatâra

CD 5

YANN TIERSEN
"The Movies"
1. Comptine d’un autre été; l’après-midi
2. Le moulin
3. La dispute
4. Sur le fil
5. La valse d’Amélie
6. Comptine d’été no. 1
7. Comptine d’été no. 2
8. Comptine d’été no. 3
9. Le vieux en veut encore
10. Toujours là
11. La pièce vide

MICHAEL NYMAN
12. Big my Secret
13. Lost and Found
14. The mood that passes through you
15. Deep sleep playing
16. Silver-Fingered fling
17. The attraction of the pedalling ankle
18. The heart asks pleasure first
19. Time Lapse
20. Fly Drive
21. If, Michael
22. Love
23. Digital Tragedy
24. Sheep ‘n Tides
25. Lost and Found
26. The heart asks pleasure first

CD 6

JEROEN VAN VEEN
Minimal Préludes, Book I
1. Prélude nr.1 in C
2. Prélude nr.2 in A minor
3. Prélude nr.3 in G
4. Prélude nr.4 in E minor
5. Prélude nr.5 in D
6. Prélude nr.6 in B minor
7. Prélude nr.7 in A
8. Prélude nr.8 in F# minor
9. Prélude nr.9 in E
10. Prélude nr.10 in C# minor
11. Prélude nr.11 in B
12. Prélude nr.12 in G# minor

CD 7

JEROEN VAN VEEN
Minimal Préludes, Book II
1. Prélude nr.13 in F sharp
2. Prélude nr.14 in E flat minor
3. Prélude nr.15 in D flat
4. Prélude nr.16 in B flat minor
5. Prélude nr.17 in A flat
6. Prélude nr.18 in F minor
7. Prélude nr.19 in E flat
8. Prélude nr.20 in C minor
9. Prélude nr.21 in B flat
10. Prélude nr.22 in G minor
11. Prélude nr.23 in F
12. Prélude nr.24 in D minor

CD 8

WIM MERTENS
1. Struggle for Pleasure

TOM JOHNSON
2. An Hour for Piano

JACOB TER VELDHUIS
3. Postnuclear Winterscenario nr. 1

CD 9

KLAAS DE VRIES
1. Toccata Americana
2. Echo

CARLOS MICHANS
3. Three Minimal Preludes

TERRY RILEY
4. In C (Jeroen van Veen live-multitrack)

Jeroen Van Veen, piano

Friday, January 20, 2012

Michael Riesman - Philip Glass Soundtracks (2008)


MICHAEL RIESMAN
Philip Glass Soundtracks
Orange Mountain Music OMM0051

1. Anima Mundi
2. Jenipapo: No.14
3. Overture to La Belle et la Bete
4. Neverwas Set
5. Notes on a Scandal: I Knew Her
6. A Brief History of Time Selections
7. Mishima: Closing
8. Naqoyqatsi: Primacy of Number
9. The Illusionist: Finale
10. The Fog of War
11. No Reservations Combine
12. Candyman: Helen's Theme and More

Michael Riesman, piano

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Philip Glass - Up Close (2004)


PHILIP GLASS
Up Close
Orange Mountain Music 14-01330-4


1. GLASSWORKS - Opening
Philip Glass Ensemble live at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. Piano by Michael Riesman

2. GLASSWORKS - Floe
Philip Glass Ensemble live at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London. Piano by Michael Riesman

3. SATYAGRAHA - Act III
Piano by Michael Riesman. Piano transcription by Michael Riesman

4. EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH - Train / Spaceship
Philip Glass Ensemble live at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London (edited excerpt)

5. THE SAXOPHONE CONCERTO -Movement I

6. LA BELLE ET LA BETE - Overture
Piano by Michael Riesman. Piano transcription by Michael Riesman

7. ANOTHER LOOK AT HARMONY, PART IV

8. MODERN LOVE WALTZ
Piano by Philip Glass

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Glass Cuts, Philip Glass Remixed (2005)


GLASS CUTS, PHILIP GLASS REMIXED
Orange Mountain Music OMM 023

1. Another Look at Harmony (Robert Bell)
2. Etude No.2 (Luciano Supervielle)
3. Saxophone Concerto (Hector Castillo & Eduardo Larez)
4. Tirol Concerto (Sebastian Escofet)
5. Etude No.1 (Androoval)
6. Houston Skyline (Kate Simko)
7. Dance from Akhnaten (impLOG.)
8. Etude No.5 (Taylor Deupree)
9. Channels and Winds (Marcos Romero)
10. Why Are We Here (Dave Wesley)
11. Thin Blue Line (Dietrich Schoenemann)
12. Saxophone Concerto (Brian Bender)
13. 2nd Perception of Light, Moon, Mist and Rainbow (DJ ESP)

The Philip Glass Ensemble - A Retrospective (2010)



THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE
A Retrospective
Orange Mountain OMM067


CD 1:
1. Dance 9
2. Music in Twelve Parts, Part 1
3. Music in Twelve Parts, Part 2
4. The Building
5. Façades
6. The Grid

CD 2:
1. The Photographer, Act II
2. Powaqatsi: Mosque / Temple
3. Low Symphony Movement III
4. Akhnaten: Funeral
5. EOB: Spaceship

THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE:
Recorded live March 2004
Philip Glass, keyboards
Michael Riesman, keyboards
Lisa Bielawa, voices
Dan Dryden, live sound mix
Stephen Erb, live stage sound
Jon Gibson, soprano saxophone, flute
Richard Peck, alto & tenor saxophone
Mick Rossi, keyboards
Andrew Sterman, flute, soprano saxophone, piccolo