Wednesday, February 29, 2012

The Olympian "Lighting of the Torch" (1984)

PIECE: The Olympian "Lighting of the Torch"

YEAR: 1984

CAST: Strings, chorus, percussions

PREMIERE: 1984 Olympic Games, Los Angeles

RECORDINGS:
Official Music of the XXIIIrd Olympiad, Los Angeles 1984 [Only released on CD in Japan]

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Jay Gottlieb: Piano Music of Philip Glass (1999), piano version
Jeroen Van Veen: Minimal Piano Collection (2006), piano version

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Mishima (1984)

PIECE: Mishima (soundtrack)

YEAR: 1984

CAST: Ensemble, string quartet

PREMIERE: 1985

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Mishima (1985)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
Michael Riesman and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra Plays Music from The Hours and Other Philip Glass Scores (2006) [Runaway Horses]
Angele Dubeau & La Pieta: Philip Glass Portrait (2008) [1934-Grandmother and Kimitake / 1962-Body Building / Blood Oath / Mishima Closing]
ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
see String Quartet No.3 "Mishima"
Michael Riesman: Philip Glass Soundtracks (2008) [Mishima / Closing] solo piano version

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

Philip Glass - Mishima (1985)


PHILIP GLASS
Mishima
Elektra Nonesuch 7559-79113-2


1. MISHIMA / Opening
2. November 25: morning
3. 1934: Grandmother & Kimitake
4. TEMPLE OF THE GOLDEN PAVILION ("Like Some Enormous Music")
5. Osamu's Theme: KYOKO'S HOUSE
6. 1937: Saint Sebastian
7. KYOKO'S HOUSE ("Stage Blood is Not Enough")
8. November 25: ICHIGAYA
9. 1957: Award Montage
10. RUNAWAY HORSES ("Poetry Written With a Splash of Blood")
11. 1962: Body Building
12. November 25: THE LAST DAY
13. F-104: Epilogue from SUN AND STEEL
14. MISHIMA / Closing

Kurt Munkacsi, productor
Michael Riesman, conductor

KRONOS QUARTET:
David Harrington
John Sherba
Hank Dutt
Joan Jeanrenaud




COMPILATIONS AND SAMPLES WITH MUSIC FROM THE ALBUM:



VARIOUS ARTISTS
The Truman Show
Milan 74321 60822-2

19. MISHIMA / Opening

Monday, February 27, 2012

The Juniper Tree (1984) [composed with Robert Moran]

PIECE: The Juniper Tree

YEAR: 1984

CAST: Orchestra, chorus and soloists

PREMIERE: December 11, 1985, The American Repertoire Theatre, Cambridge

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass & Robert Moran: The Juniper Tree (2009)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Philip Glass & Robert Moran - The Juniper Tree (2009)


PHILIP GLASS & ROBERT MORAN
The Juniper Tree
Orange Mountain Music OMM0057

ACT I
1. Prologue (Glass)
2. Scene 1 (Moran)
3. Scene 2 (Moran)
4. Scene 3 (Glass)
5. Bird Song (Glass)
6. Epilogue (Moran)
ACT II
7. Scene 1 (Glass)
8. Interlude (Moran)
9. Scene 2 (Moran)
10. Final Scene-Trio (Moran)

THE JUNIPER TREE OPERA ORCHESTRA
Richard Pittmann, conductor

Jayne West, soprano
Sanford Sylvan, baritone
Lynn Torgove, soprano
Valerie Walters, mezzo-soprano
Janet Brown, soprano
David Stoneman, baritone
Thomas Derrah, tenor
William Cotten, tenor

Village Folk Chorus


Sunday, February 26, 2012

A Descent Into the Maelstrom (1985)

PIECE: A Descent Into the Maelstrom

YEAR: 1985

CAST: Ensemble

PREMIERE: March 1986, Adelaide Festival of Arts

RECORDINGS:
Phiilp Glass: A Descent Into the Maelstrom (2002)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Philip Glass: Glass Cuts (2005) [Second Perception of Light Moon, Mist and Rainbow] remix

Philip Glass - A Descent Into the Maelstrom (2002)


PHILIP GLASS
A Descent Into the Maelstrom
Orange Mountain Music OMM0005

1. Vertigo
2. He is Coerced to Look
3. Engagement
4. The Naming
5. Tranquility
6. The Beggin
7. The Strategem
8. On My Watch and Caught
9. The Hurricane and Recognition of Death
10. The Entrance of the Moon
11. The Sighting
12. They Enter the Stream
13. Abandonment
14. The Brother Becomes a Maniac
15. The First Mad Rush
16. Second Perception of Light Moon, Mist and Rainbow
17. The Maelstrom
18. Hour of the Slack and Escape

THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE:
Philip Glass, keyboards
Michael Riesman, keyboards
Martin Goldray, keyborads
Dora Orhenstein, vocals
Jon Gibson, saxophones and flute
Jack Kripl, flute, bass clarinet
Ricard Peck, saxophones
Kurt Munkacsi, house mixer

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Company (1983)

PIECE: Company

YEAR: 1983

CAST: String Orchestra

PREMIERE: 1983, the Public Theatre, New York

RECORDINGS:
The London Chamber Orchestra: Minimalists (1994)
Gidon Kremer: Silencio (2000)
Adele Anthony: Philip Glass Violin Concerto (2000)
Angele Dubeau & La Pieta: Philip Glass Portrait (2008)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
See: String Quartet No.2 "Company" (1984)

Gidon Kremer - Silencio (2000)


GIDON KREMER
Silencio
Elektra Nonesuch 79582

ARVO PÄRT
Tabula Rasa
1. Ludus (with movement)
2. Silentium (without movement)

PHILIP GLASS
Company
3. Movement I
4. Movement II
5. Movement III
6. Movement IV

VLADIMIR  MARTYNOV
Come In!
7. Movement I
8. Movement II
9. Movement III
10. Movement IV
11. Movement V
12. Movement VI

ARVO PÄRT
13. Darf Ich

KREMERATA BALTICA
Gidon Kremer, violin, conductor


Friday, February 24, 2012

The Civil Wars, a tree is best measured when it is down - ACT V, The Rome Section (1983)

PIECE: The Civil Wars (a tree is best measured when it is down) - ACT V, The Rome Section

YEAR: 1983

CAST: Orchestra, chorus, solo voices

PREMIERE: March 1984, Opera di Roma

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: The Civil Wars (a tree is best measured when it is down) - ACT V, the Rome Section (1999)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
Philip Glas: Symphony No.3 (2000) [Interlude No.1 / Interlude No.2]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Philip Glass - The Civil Wars, A Tree is Best Measured When It Is Down - ACT V, The Rome Section (1999)


PHILIP GLASS
The Civil Wars (a tree is best measured when it is down)
Elektra Nonesuch 7559-79487-2

1. Prologue
2. Scene A
3. Scene B
4. Scene C

AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor
Sondra Radvanovsky, soprano
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
Giuseppe Sabbatini, tenor
Zheng Zhou, baritone
Robert Wilson, narration
Laurie Anderson, narration


Philip Glass - Symphony No.3 (2000)


PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No.3
Elektra Nonesuch 7559-79581-2

SYMPHONY No.3
1. Movement I
2. Movement II
3. Movement III
4. Movement IV

5. Interlude No.1 from The Civil Wars

6. Mechanical Ballet from The Voyage

7. Interlude No.2 from The Civil Wars

8. The Light

1-4, 5 and 7:
STUTTGART CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

6 and 8:
VIENNA RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Akhnaten (1983)

PIECE: Akhnaten

YEAR: 1983

CAST: Orchestra (no violins), chorus, solo voices

PREMIERE: March 24, 1984, Wurttenbergisch, Staatstheater Stuttgart

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Akhnaten (1987)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Dancepieces (1987) [Funeral of Amenhotep]
Adele Anthony: Philip Glass Violin Concerto (2000) [Prelude / Dance (Act II, Scene III)]
Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico: Glass Reflections (2006) [Attack and Fall (Act III) / Funeral of Amenhotep III (Act I)
The Philip Glass Ensemble: A Retrospective (2010) [Funeral]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Philip Glass: Glass Cuts (2005) [Dance (electronic remix)]

Philip Glass - Akhnaten (1987)


PHILIP GLASS
Akhnaten
CBS M2K 42457

CD 1:
ACT I: YEAR 1 OF AKHNATEN'S REIGN - THEBES
1. Prelude: refrain, verse 1, verse 2
2. Prelude: verse 3
3. Scene 1: Funeral of Amenhotep III
4. Scene 2: The Coronation of Akhnaten
5. Scene 3: The Window of Appearances
ACT II: YEARS 5 TO 15 - THEBES AND AKHETATEN
6. Scene 1: The Temple
7. Scene 2: Akhnaten and Nefertiti

CD 2:
1. Scene 3: The City - Dance (Beginning) - Narration
2. Scene 3: The City - Dance (Conclussion) - Dance
3. Scene 4: Hymn
ACT III: YEAR 17 AND THE PRESENT
4. Scene 1: The Family
5. Scene 2: Attack and Fall
6. Scene 3: The Ruins
7. Scene 4: Epilogue

THE STUTTGART STATE OPERA ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS
DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES





2003 REISSUE:


Sony Classical SM2K 91141

Adele Anthony - Philip Glass Violin Concerto


ADELE ANTHONY
Philip Glass Violin Concerto
Naxos 8.554568

COMPANY
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV

VIOLIN CONCERTO
5. I
6. II
7. III

AKHNATEN
8. Prelude
9. Dance (Act II, Scene III)

Adele Anthony, violin
Ulster Orchestra
Takuo Yuasa, conductor

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

The Photographer (1982)

PIECE: The Photographer

YEAR: 1982

CAST: Ensemble, solo violin, chorus

PREMIERE: May 1982, Royal Palace, Amsterdam

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: The Photographer (1983)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
The Philip Glass Ensemble: A Retrospective (2010) [ACT II]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Philip Glass - The Photographer (1983)


PHILIP GLASS
The Photographer
CBS MK 73684

1. ACT I: "A Gentleman's Honor"
2. ACT II
3. A Gentleman's Honor (instrumental)
4. ACT III

Paul Zukofsky, violin
Jaxk Kripl, flute
Michael Riesman, keyboards, piano, bass synthesizer
Philip Glass, electric organ
Lew Soloff, trumpet
Ed Carroll, trumpet
Jim Pugh, trombone
Alan Raph, trombone
Bob Carlisle, french horn
Ron Sell, french horn

String Ensemble
Marin Alsop, conductor
Chorus.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Koyaanisqatsi (1982)

PIECE: Koyaanisqatsi (soundtrack)

YEAR: 1982

CAST: Ensemble and chorus

PREMIERE: original soundtrack

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi (1983) [original soundtrack edited excepts]
Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi (1998) [new recording of the full original soundtrack]
Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi (2009) [full original soundtrack version]

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
Crouch End Festival Chorus Performs Philip Glass (2000) [Vessels]
The Philip Glass Ensemble: A Retrospective (2010) [The Grid]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Crouch End Festival Chorus Performs Philip Glass (2000)


CROUCH END FESTIVAL CHORUS
Performs Philip Glass
Silva Classics SILKD 6023

THREE SONGS
1. There Are Some Men (lyrics, Leonard Cohen)
2. Quand Les Hommes Vivront D'Amour (lyrics, Raymond Levesque)
3. Pierre de Soleil (lyrics, Octavio Paz)

4. Vessels (from Koyaanisqatsi)

SONGS FROM LIQUID DAYS
5. Changing Opinion
6. Lightning
7. In Liquid Days
8. Open the Kingdom
9. Freezing
10. Forgetting

The Crouch End Festival Chorus
National Sinfonia
David Temple, conductor

Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi (2009)


PHILIP GLASS
Koyaanisqatsi
Orange Mountain OMM0058

1. Koyaanisqatsi
2. Organic
3. Clouds
4. Resource
5. Vessels
6. Pruitt Igoe
7. Pruitt Igoe Coda
8. SloMo People
9. The Grid Introduction
10. The Grid
11. Microchip
12. Prophecies
13. Translations and Credits

THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE
THE WESTERN WIND VOCAL ENSEMBLE

Full version of the original 1983 soundtrack including music not released on the Island edition.


Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi (1998)

PHILIP GLASS
Koyaanisqatsi
Elektra Nonesuch 7559-79519-2


1. Koyaanisqatsi
2. Organic
3. Cloudscape
4. Resource
5. Vessels
6. Pruit Igoe
7. The Grid
8. Prophecies

THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE
THE WESTERN WIND VOCAL ENSEMBLE

New recording

Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi (1983)


PHILIP GLASS
Koyaanisqatsi
Island 255 626

1. Koyaanisqatsi
2. Vessels
3. Cloudscape
4. Pruit Igoe
5. The Grid
6. Prophecies

THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE
THE WESTERN WIND VOCAL ENSEMBLE

Monday, February 20, 2012

London Chamber Orchestra - Minimalists (1994)

LONDON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Minimalists
Virgin Classics 7243 5 61121 2 4

JOHN ADAMS
Shaker Loops
1. Shaking and Trembling
2. Hymning Slews
3. Loops and Verses
4. A Final Shaking

PHILIP GLASS
5. Façades (from Glassworks)

STEVE REICH
6. Eight Lines

PHILIP GLASS
Company
7. Movement I
8. Movement II
9. Movement III
10. Movement IV

DAVE HEATH
11. The Frontier

LONDON CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Christopher Warren Green, director
John Harle, soprano saxophone (Façades)
Simon Haram, soprano saxophone
Chris Lawrence, double bass (The Frontier)




This same recording of Glass Pieces is also availlable on:


AMERICAN CLASSICS: STEVE REICH / PHILIP GLASS (2008)
EMI Classics 50999 2 06624 2 4

5. Façades
6-9. Company

Lautten Compagney - Timeless (2010)


LAUTTEN COMPAGNEY
Timeless
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 88697526982


PHILIP GLASS
1. The Windcatcher - Part I

TARQUINIO MERULA
2. La Lusignola

PHILIP GLASS
3. Melody for Saxophone No.10

TARQUINIO MERULA
4. Alemana
5. Ballo detto Polliccio

PHILIP GLASS
6. Melody for Saxophone No.12
7. Façades (from Glassworks)

TARQUINIO MERULA
8. La mia Filli e fugace

PHILIP GLASS
9. Melody for Saxophone No.5

TARQUINIO MERULA
10. Che nove arti son queste
11. La Loda

PHILIP GLASS
12. Opening (from Glassworks)
13. Video Dream (from Powaqqatsi)

TARQUINIO MERULA
14. Sonata cromatica
15. Capriccio
16. Folle e ben
17. Sentirete
18. Su la cetra amorosa

PHILIP GLASS
19. The Windcatcher - Part III


LAUTTEN COMPAGNEY BERLIN
Karola Elssner, saxophone
Friederike Otto, horn
Peter Bauer, marimba, percussion
Birgit Schurpfeil, violin
Anne Von Hoff, violin
Ulrike Paetz, viola
Ulrike Becker, cello
Annette Rheinfurth, double bass
Wolfgang Katschner, theorbo, conductor
Hans-Werner Apel, theorbo, baroque guitar

Piccola Accademia degli Specchi - Minimamachta (2009)


PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DEGLI SPECCHI
Minimamachta
Centaur CRC 2983


PHILIP GLASS
1. Opening (from Glassworks)

MATTEO SOMMACAL
2. Andrea

WIM MERTENS
3. Close Cover

PHILIP GLASS
4. Façades (from Glassworks)

MATTEO SOMMACAL
Le Ragioni Dimenticate
5. Movement I
6. Movement II

WIM MERTENS
7. 4 Mains

PHILIP GLASS
8. Dance VIII

MATTEO SOMMACAL
Nessuno Ascolta il Cane di Ceramica
9. Movement I
10. Movement II
11. Movement III

PHILIP GLASS
12. Metamorphosis IV

WIM MERTENS
13. Gentlemen of Leisure

MATTEO SOMMACAL
14. Counter Rotating in Vacuum


PICCOLA ACCADEMIA DEGLI SPECCHI:
Alessandra Amorino, flute, piccolo
Assunta Cavallari, piano
Donato Cedrone, cello
Claudia Di Pietro, alto, soprano saxophone
Valerio Machitelli, violin
Giovanni Rosati, piano, musical director


Angele Dubeau & La Pieta - Philip Glass Portrait (2008)


ANGELE DUBEAU & LA PIETA
Philip Glass Portrait
Analekta AN 2 8727


1. La Belle et la Bete "Ouverture"

THE HOURS SUITE
2. Movement I
3. Movement II
4. Movement III

MISHIMA
5. 1934 - Grandmother and Kimitake
6. 1962 - Body Building
7. Blood Oath
8. Mishima / Closing

9. The Secret Agent

10. Echorus

COMPANY
11. Movement I
12. Movement II
13. Movement III
14. Movement IV

15. Closing (from Glassworks)

Angele Dubeau, violin, conductor
LA PIETA:
Julie Triquet, violin
Josiane Breault, violin
Andra Giugariu, violin
Ariane Bresse, violin
Ana Drobac, violin
Martine Gagne, viola
Bojana Milinov, viola
Yukari Cousineau, viola
Anne Gadbois, cello
Therese Ryan, cello
Mariane Charlebois-Deschamps, double bass
Louise-Andree Baril, piano
Caroline Lizotte, harp
Marie-Eve Scarfone, celesta

John Lenehan - Philip Glass, the Piano Music (2007)


JOHN LENEHAN
Philip Glass, The Piano Music
Sony Classical 88697119572

1. Opening (from Glassworks)

TRILOGY SONATA
2. Knee Play No.4
3. Sathagraha
4. Dance

THE HOURS
5. The Poet Acts
6. Morning Passages
7. Something She Has to Do
8. I'm Going to Make a Cake
9. An Unwelcome Friend
10. Dead Things
11. Why Does Someone Have to Die?
12. Tearing Herself Away
13. Escape!
14. Choosing life
15. The Hours

John Lenehan, piano

One + One (1967)

PIECE: One + One (also listed as 1+1)

YEAR: 1967

CAST: one player and amplified table top

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:
Steffen Schleiermacher: Philip Glass Early Keyboard Music (2001)
Ulrich Krieger: Walls of Sound II, Early American Minimalism (2004)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Michael Riesman and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra - Music from The Hours and Other Scores (2006)


MICHAEL RIESMAN AND THE STUTTGART CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Music from the Hours and Other Scores
Orange Mountain Music (Only availlable via iTunes)

1. The Secret Agent
2. The Thin Blue Line
3. Runaway Horses (from Mishima)

SUITE FROM "THE HOURS"
4. Movement I
5. Movement II
6. Movement III

7. Overture to "La Belle et la Bete"
8. Closing (from Glassworks)

SUITE FROM "DRACULA"
9. Dracula
10. Journey to the Inn
11. The Inn (part 1)
12. The Inn (part 2)
13. Carriage Without a Driver
14. Dr.Van Helsing and Dracula
15. In the Theatre
16. Mina on the Terrace
17. Mina's Bedroom, the Abbey
18. The End of Dracula
19. Dracula, epilogue

The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Michael Riesman, conductor

Philip Glass - Dancepieces (1987)


PHILIP GLASS
Dancepieces
CBS MK39539

IN THE UPPER ROOM
1. Dance I
2. Dance II
3. Dance V
4. Dance VIII
5. Dance IX

GLASSPIECES
6. Glasspiece #1 (Rubric, from Glassworks)
7. Glasspiece #2 (Façades, from Glassworks)
8. Glasspiece #3 (Funeral from Akhnaten)

The Philip Glass Ensemble

Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico - Glass Reflections (2006)


CELLO OCTET CONJUNTO IBÉRICO
Glass Reflections
Orange Mountain Music OMM0032

1. Symphony for Eight (from Symphony No.3 - Movement III)
2. Company (Movements I and II from String Quartet No.2)
3. Mishima (Movements III and IV from String Quartet No.3)
4. Façades (from Glassworks)

THE SECRET AGENT
5. The Secret Agent
6. Blood on the Stairs
7. Emigration
8. Winnie Goes to Sea
9. The Secret Agent Ending

10. Attack and Fall (Act III from the opera Akhnaten)
11. Funeral of Amenhotep III (Act I from the opera Akhnaten)

CELLO OCTET CONJUNTO IBÉRICO:
Jeroen den Herder, cello
Robert Putowski, cello
Artur Trajko, cello
Hanneke van de Bund, cello
Christiaan van Hemert, cello
Esther Iglesias, cello
Esmé de Vries, cello
Mikolaj Palosz, cello

VOICES:
Astrid Lammers
Ilona Stokvis
Ronald Aijtink
Martijn de Graaf Brierbrauwer
Robert Kops
Bert Visser
Jean Paul Spaendonk

Philip Glass - Glassworks (1982)


PHILIP GLASS
Glassworks
CBS MK73640

1. Opening
2. Floe
3. Island
4. Rubric
5. Façades
6. Closing

Michael Riesman, piano, electric organ, bass synthesizer
Jack Kripl, piccolo, soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
Philip Glass, electric organ
John Gibson, soprano sax
Richard Peck, tenor sax
Sharon Moe, french horn
Larry Wechsler, french horn
Linda Moss, viola
Lois Martin, viola
Julian Barber, viola
Al Brown, viola
Maureen Gallagher, viola
Seymour Barab, cello
John Abramowitz, cello
Fred Slotkin, cello


Ulrich Krieger - Walls of Sound II, Early American Minimalism (2004)


ULRICH KRIEGER
Walls of Sound II - Early American Minimalism
Sub Rosa SR 218

PHILIP GLASS
1. Music in Fifths

STEVE REICH
2. Pendulum Music

TERRY RILEY
3. Dorian Reeds

PHILIP GLASS
4. One + One

STEVE REICH
5. Reed Phase

Ulrich Krieger, soprano, alto, tenor and baritone sax, table, microphone

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Philip Glass - Satyagraha (1985)


PHILIP GLASS
Satyagraha
CBS M3K 39672

CD 1:
ACT I - TOLSTOI
1. Scene 1
2. Scene 2
3. Scene 3

CD 2:
ACT II - TAGORE
1. Scene 1
2. Scene 2
3. Scene 3

CD 3:
ACT III - KING
1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3

Tha New York City Opera, Orchestra and Chorus
Christopher Keene, director.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

A Madrigal Opera (1980)

PIECE: A Madrigal Opera

YEAR: 1980

CAST: Soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass, alto, violin, viola

PREMIERE: June 1980, Holland Festival

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: A Madrigal Opera (2009)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Philip Glass - A Madrigal Opera (2009)


PHILIP GLASS
A Madrigal Opera
Orange Mountain Music OMM0062

1. Part I - Opening
2. Part I
3. Part II
4. Part III
5. Part IV
6. Part IV - Closing

Petri Bäkström, tenor
Essi Luttinen, mezzo-soprano
Vikke Häkkinen, baritone
Laura Heinonen, soprano
Riku Pelo, bass
Max Savikangas, viola
Linda Hedlund, violin

Friday, February 17, 2012

Mike Oldfield - Platinum (1979)


MIKE OLDFIELD
Platinum
Virgin CDV2141

1. Platinum (Parts 1-4) [Part 4 with Oldfield's version of Etoile Polaire]
2. Woodhenge
3. Sally
4. Punkadiddle
5. I Got Rhythm

Mike Oldfield, guitars, piano, synthesizers, vibraphone, marimbas, vocals
Pierre Moerlen, drums, vibraphone
Alan Schwartzberg, drums
Maurice Pert, drums
Neil Jason, bass
Hansford Rowe, bass
Francisco Centeno, bass
Nico Ramsden, keyboards
Peter Lemer, keyboards
Peter Gordon, horn arrangements
Michael Riesman, horn arrangements
Kurt Munkacsi, engineer
Tom Newman, engineer

Christopher Bowers-Broadbent - Trivium (1992)


CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROADBENT
Trivium
ECM 1431


ARVO PÄRT
1. Trivium
2. Mein Weg Hat Gipfel Und Wellentäler
3. Annum per Annum
4. Pari Intervallo

PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
5. Psalm 124
6. O God Abufe

PHILIP GLASS
7. Satyagraha, Act III, conclussion
8. Dance No.4

Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, organ

From the Kitchen Archives - New Music, New York 1979 (2004)

FROM THE KITCHEN ARCHIVES
New Music, New York 1979
Orange Mountain Music OMM0015

CD 1:

PHILIP GLASS
1. Dance No.IV

MEREDITH MONK
2. Do You Be

JON GIBSON
3. Criss Cross (section 3)

GARRETT LIST
4. Where We Are

GORDON MUMMA
5. Schoolwork

GEORGE LEWIS
6. The Kim and I

MICHAEL NYMAN
7. Five Orchestral Pieces from Opus Tree

PAULINE OLIVEROS
8. The Tuning Meditation

CD 2:

TOM JOHNSON
Secret Songs
1. Wolo Yolo
2. Dwa
3. Paka Laka

CHARLIE MORROW
4. Dream Song / Vision Chant

BARBARA BENARY
5. Exchanges

PHILL NIBLOCK
6. Four Arthurs superimposed with Two Octaves and a Fifth

DAVID BEHRMAN
7. Touch Tones

JOEL CHADABE
8. Solo

TONY CONRAD
9. Untitled Pieces

CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
10. Untitled for Solo Voice

STEVE REICH
11. Drumming, Part One

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Fourth Series Parts 1-4 (1977-79)

PIECE: Fourth Series Parts 1-4

Part I is unreleased, Part II is also known as "Dance No.2", Part III is also known as "Modern Love Waltz" and Part IV is also known as "Mad Rush for Organ"

YEAR: 1977-79

CAST: Chorus, organ, violin, clarinet.

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS: none

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Dance Nos. 1-5 (1988) [Fourth Series Part II, as Dance No.2]
Donald Joyce: Glass Organ Works (1993) [Fourth Series Part II, as Dance No.2 and Fourth Series Part IV, as Mad Rush for Organ]
Aleck Karis: Philip Glass Piano Music (2000)  [Fourth Series Part III, as Modern Love Waltz]
Kevin Bowyer: Music for Organ (2001) [Fourth Series Part II, as Dance No.2]
Steffen Schleiermacher: Glass Early Keyboard Music (2001) [Fourth Series Part IV, as Mad Rush for Organ]
Philip Glass: Up Close (2004)  [Fourth Series Part III, as Modern Love Waltz]
Alessandra Celetti: Philip Glass Metamorphosis (2005) [Fourth Series Part III, as Modern Love Waltz]
Steffen Schleiermacher: Glass Dances and Sonata (2006) [Fourth Series Part II, as Dance No.2]
Jeroen Van Veen: Minimal Piano Collection (2006)  [Fourth Series Part III, as Modern Love Waltz]
Branka Parlic: Philip Glass Metamorphosis (2006)  [Fourth Series Part III, as Modern Love Waltz]
Mie Miki: S'il Vous Plait (2011)  [Fourth Series Part III, as Modern Love Waltz]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

From the Kitchen Archives No.5, Pianos in the Kitchen (2011)

FROM THE KITCHEN ARCHIVES No.5
Pianos in the Kitchen
Orange Mountain Music OMM0070

PHILIP GLASS
1. Fourth Series Part IV (also known as Mad Rush)

MEREDITH MONK
2. Travelling
3. Paris

CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE
4. Excerpt from Evolution of a Sonority in Strumming and Arpeggio Style for Bosendorfer Piano

ANTHONY DAVIS
5. A Walk Through the Shadow

DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES
6. Excerpt fro Ritual for Piano by Keith Jarrett

HAROLD BUDD
7. Excerpt from Preludes for Solo Piano

Philip Glass - Solo Piano (1989)


PHILIP GLASS
Solo Piano
CBS MK45576

1. Metamorphosis 1
2. Metamorphosis 2
3. Metamorphosis 3
4. Metamorphosis 4
5. Metamorphosis 5
6. Mad Rush
7. Wichita Vortex Sutra

Philip Glass, piano

Bruce Brubaker - Glass Cage (2000)


BRUCE BRUBAKER
Glass Cage
Arabesque Recordings Z6744


PHILIP GLASS
1. Satyagraha (Act 3, Conclussion)

JOHN CAGE
2. A Room (from She is Asleep)

PHILIP GLASS
3. Metamorphosis 1
4. Metamorphosis 2
5. Metamorphosis 3
6. Metamorphosis 4
7. Metamorphosis 5

JOHN CAGE
8. Dream

PHILIP GLASS
9. Mad Rush

Bruce Brubaker, piano

Sally Whitwell - Mad Rush, Solo Piano Music of Philip Glass (2011)


SALLY WHITWELL
Mad Rush, Solo Piano Music of Philip Glass
ABC Classics 270548

1. Opening (from Glassworks)
2. Metamorphosis 1
3. Metamorphosis 2
4. Metamorphosis 3
5. Metamorphosis 4
6. Metamorphosis 5
7. Mad Rush
8. Dead Things (from The Hours)
9. Wichita Vortex Sutra

Sally Whitwell, piano


Jeroen Van Veen - Minimal Piano Works Volume 1 (1999)


JEROEN VAN VEEN
Minimal Piano Works Volume 1
Van Veen Prod.

1. Metamorphosis 1
2. Metamorphosis 2
3. Metamorphosis 3
4. Metamorphosis 4
5. Metamorphosis 5
6. Mad Rush
7. Wichita Vortex Sutra
8. Opening (from Glassworks)

Jeroen Van Veen, piano


Jay Gottlieb - Philip Glass Piano Music (1999)


JAY GOTTLIEB
Philip Glass Piano Music
Pianovox PIA 520-2E

1. Opening (from Glassworks)
2. The Olympian (Lighting of the Torch)
3. Metamorphosis 1
4. Metamorphosis 2
5. Metamorphosis 3
6. Metamorphosis 4
7. Metamorphosis 5
8. Mad Rush
9. Wichita Vortex Sutra

Jay Gottlieb, piano

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

They Might Be Giants - They Got Lost (2002)


THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS
The Got Lost
Idlwild


CD 1:

1. Rest Awhile
2. Truth in Your Words
3. On the Drag
4. All Alone
5. Down to the Bottom of the Sea
6. I'm Sick (Of This American Life)
7. Words Are Like (demo)
8. I Am a Human Head
9. Oranges
10. Empty Bottle Blues
11. They Got Lost
12. Reprehensible
13. Rat Patrol
14. The Army's Tired Now
15. Certain People I Could Name
16. Theme to McSweeney's
17. Dollar for Dollar
18. Mosh Momken Abandon (Riad al-Sunbat,Ma'mun al-Shinawi)
19. Token Back to Brooklyn
20. Disappointing Show
21. Oranges Testimonial

CD 2:

1. Theme From McSweeney's Issue 6
2. The Ballad of Timothy McSweeney
3. MOR
4. Dollar for Dollar
5. Oprah
6. Garden of Eden
7. West Virginia
8. Koenigstein
9. It's Getting Late
10. Daphne
11. She Thinks She's Edith Head
12. Mr. and Mrs. Nuclear
13. Bangs
14. Modern Love Waltz (*)
15. Faster Better Now
16. Be Patient
17. God's Sister Jessica
18. Grassroots Internet Revolution
19. Billy by the Bay
20. Swimming Hole
21. Mosh Momken Abandan
22. Even My T-Shirt
23. The Army's Tired Now
24. Drinkin'
25. Gazing Out Toward
26. Frog and Banjo
27. Robert Lowell
28. Lincoln, Washington, and That Jefferson Guy
29. Down to the Bottom of the Sea
30. Art Mover
31. People Died Today
32. Truth in Your Words
33. C-Town
34. Roslyn's Dog
35. Softly
36. Slow
37. Budnitz
38. Candy Stripers
39. Girls in Their Tuning
40. The Life of Doug
41. R U Together
42. Mona Lisa
43. To the Text
44. Theme From McSweeney's Issue 6: Thank Yous

(*) Also known as Fourth Series Part III

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS:
John Flansburg
John Linnell