Symphony No.1 "Low" (1992)

PIECE: Symphony No.1 "Low"

YEAR: 1992

CAST: orchestra

PREMIERE: August 30, 1992, Munich.

RECORDINGS:

Philip Glass: "Low" Symphony (1993)
Philip Glass: Symphony No.1 "Low" (2014)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:

Philip Glass Ensemble: A Retrospective (2008) [Movement III]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Philip Glass - Symphony No.1 "Low" (2014)

PHILIP GLASS

Symphony No.1 "Low"

Orange Mountain OMM0095

1. Movement I - Subterraneans
2. Movement II - Some Are
3. Movement III - Warszawa

Sinfonieorchester Basel
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

Powaqqatsi (1987)

PIECE: Powaqqatsi

YEAR: 1987

CAST: Ensemble, chorus

PREMIERE: July 1990, Alice Tully Hall

RECORDINGS:

Philip Glass: Powaqqatsi (1988)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:

The Philip Glass Ensemble: A Retrospective (2009) [Mosque / Temple]

Lautten Compagney: Timeless (2010) [Video Dream]
Philip Glass: Voices for Didjeridoo and Organ (2013) [New Cities / Anthem] (as Movs. I & IV of the "Organ Suite)

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Naqoyqatsi (2002)

PIECE: Naqoyqatsi (soundtrack)

YEAR: 2002

CAST: Orchestra, choir, cello, soprano, didjeridoo

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:

Philip Glass: Naqoyqatsi (2002)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:

Philip Glass: Songs and Poems for Solo Cello (2007) [discarted music from the movie]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:

Michael Riesman: Philip Glass Soundtracks (2008) [Primacy of Numbers] piano version
Philip Glass: Cello Concerto No.2 "Naqoyqatsi" (2012) arrangement of the soundtrack as a concerto
Philip Glass: Voices for Didjeridoo and Organ (2013) [Prologue] (as Mov.I of the "Organ Suite")

Organ Suite (2013)

PIECE: Organ Suite (Michael Riesman organ arrangements of previously released music)

1. Prologue

2. New Cities

3. Islands

4. Anthem

YEAR: 2013

CAST: Organ

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:

Philip Glass: Voices for Didjeridoo and Organ (2013)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:

Voices for Organ, Narrator and Didjeridoo (2001)

PIECE: Voices for Organ, didjeridoo and narrator

YEAR: 2001

CAST: Organ, speaker, didjeridoo.

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:

Philip Glass: Voices for Didjeridoo and Organ (2013) [didjeridoo & organ version]

Philip Glass - Voices for Didjeridoo and Organ (2013)

PHILIP GLASS

Voices for Didjeridoo and Organ

Orange Mountain OMM0094

VOICES FOR DIDJERIDOO AND ORGAN
1. Song 1
2. Song 2
3. Song 3
4. Song 4

ORGAN SUITE: FOUR MOVEMENTS ARRANGED FOR ORGAN
5. Prologue
6. New Cities
7. Islands
8. Anthem

Michael Riesman, organ
Mark Atkins, didjeridoo

Strung Out (1967)

PIECE: Strung Out

YEAR: 1967

CAST: amplified violin

PREMIERE: 1968, New York. Dorothy Pixley-Rothschild, violin

RECORDINGS:
Paul Zukofsky: Brant · Scelsi · Wolpe · Xenakis · Cage · Glass · Feldman (1995)

Alter Ego Performs Philip Glass: Music in the Shape of a Square (2001)
Philip Glass: How Now / Strung Out (2013) [live recording, Dorothy Pixley-Rothschild, violin]

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

How Now (1968)

PIECE: How Now

YEAR: 1968

CAST: Organ, piano or ensemble

PREMIERE: 1968, Philip Glass, organ

RECORDINGS:

- Alter Ego Performs Philip Glass: 600 Lines (2003) [ensemble version]

- Jeroen Van Veen: Minimal Piano Collection (2006) [piano version]

- Steffen Schleiermacher: Philip Glass: How Now (2010) [piano version]
- Philip Glass: How Now / Strung Out (2013) [organ version, recorded in 1968]

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Philip Glass - How Now / Strung Out (2013)

PHILIP GLASS

How Now / Strung Out

Orange Mountain OMM0093

1. How Now
2. Strung Out

Recorded in 19 May, 1968 at the Filmmaker's Cinematheque 80 Wooster Street, New York City.

Philip Glass, organ (1)
Dorothy Pixley-Rothschild, violin.