Monday, November 16, 2015

Philip Glass - String Quartet No.5 / Suite from Dracula (2015)


PHILIP GLASS
String Quartet No.5 / Suite from Dracula
Naxos 8.559766

STRING QUARTET No.5
1. I
2. II
3. III
4. IV
5. V

SUITE FROM DRACULA
6. Titles
7. Journey to the Inn
8. Excellent Mr.Renfield
9. The Storm
10. In the Theatre
11. Woman in White
12. Dr. Van Helsing and Dracula
13. The End of Dracula

STRING SEXTET
14. I
15. II
16. III
17. IV

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

Cian O'Dúill, viola
Gemma Rosefield, cello

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2 ''The American Four Seasons'' (2009)

PIECE: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.2 "The American Four Seasons"

YEAR: 2009

CAST: Orchestra, solo violin

PREMIERE: December 9, 2009.

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Violin Concerto No.2 (2010)
Gidon Kremer: New Seasons (2015)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
Tim Fain Plays Philip Glass Partita for Solo Violin (2015) [interludes]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Gidon Kremer - New Seasons (2015)


GIDON KREMER
New Seasons
Deutsche Grammophon 00289 4794817

PHILIP GLASS
Violin Concerto No.2 "The American Four Seasons"
1. Prologue
2. Movement I
3. Song No.1
4. Movement II
5. Song No.2
6. Movement III
7. Song No.3
8. Movement IV

ARVO PÄRT
9. Estonian Lullaby

GIYA KANCHELI
10. Ex Contrario

SHIGERU UMEBAYASHI
11. Yumeji's Theme

Gidon Kremer, violin
Kremerata Baltica

String Quartet No.5 (1991)

PIECE: String Quartet No.5

YEAR: 1991

CAST: String Quartet

PREMIERE: February 15, 1992

RECORDINGS:
Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass (1995)
Smith Quartet: Philip Glass Complete String Quartets (2008)
Paul Klee 4tet: Philip Glass Quartets (2008)
Brooklyn Rider Performs Philip Glass (2011)
Carducci Quartet: String Quartet No.5 / Suite from Dracula (2015)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays & Patrick Zimmerly: Modern Music (2011) [2 pianos version, excerpt]
The Dublin Guitar Quartet Performs Philip Glass (2014) guitar quartet version

Partita for Solo Violin (2011)

PIECE: Partita for Solo Violin

YEAR: 2011

CAST: Violin

PREMIERE: May 14, 2011. Zeeuwse Concertzaal Middelburg, Holland

RECORDINGS:
Tim Fain Plays Philip Glass Partita for Solo Violin (2015)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Einstein on the Beach (1976)

PIECE: Einstein on the Beach

YEAR: 1976

CAST: Ensemble

PREMIERE: The Philip Glass Ensemble, July 25, 1976. Festival D'Avignon

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1979) [Sony Classical]
Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1984) [2012, Orange Mountain]
Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1993) [Elektra Nonesuch]

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
Gregory Fulkerson: Cadenzas and Variations (1981) [Solo Music from Einstein on the Beach]
Topology: Perpetual Motion Machine (2003) [Knee Play 4]
Philip Glass: Up Close (2004) live versions [Train / Spaceship]
Philip Glass Ensemble: A Retrospective (2010) live versions [Building / Spaceship]
Tim Fain: River of Light (2011) [Knee Play 2]
Tim Fain Plays Philip Glass Partita for Solo Violin (2015) [Knee Play 2]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Jon Gibson: In Good Company (1992) saxophone version [Bed]
David Leisner: Music of the Human Spirit (2002) guitar version [Knee Play 4]
Bruce Brubaker: Hope Street Tunnel Blues (2007) piano version [Knee Play 4]
Philip Glass: Rework (2012) electronic mix [Knee Play 1]

Book of Longing (2007)

PIECE: Book of Longing

YEAR: 2007

CAST: ensemble

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Book of Longing (2007)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
Tara Hugo Sings Philip Glass (2012) [How Much I Love You / A Sip of Wine / The Night of Santiago]
Tim Fain Plays Philip Glass Partita for Solo Violin (2015)

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Tim Fain Plays Philip Glass Partita for Solo Violin (2015)


TIM FAIN
Plays Philip Glass Partita for Solo Violin
Orange Mountain OMM 0050

PARTITA
1. Opening
2. Morning Song
3. Dance 1
4. Chaconne Part 1
5. Dance 2
6. Evening Song
7. Chaconne Part 2

8. Knee 2 from Einstein on the Beach
9. Book of Longing
10. Interludes from Violin Concerto No.2

Tim Fain, violin

Concert Overture (2012)

PIECE: Concert Overture

YEAR: 2012

CAST: Orchestra

PREMIERE: June 17, 2012 by the Baltimore Symphony at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore and the Toronto Symphony at David Pecaut Square in Toronto as part of the Luminato festival.

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Symphony No.10

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Symphony No.10 (2012)

PIECE: Symphony No.10

YEAR: 2012

CAST: Orchestra

PREMIERE: August 9, 2012. Grand Théatre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Symphony No.10

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Dracula (1998)

PIECE: Dracula

YEAR: 1998

CAST: String Quartet

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Dracula (1999)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
Carducci Quartet: String Quartet No.5 / Suite from Dracula (2015) [Dracula Suite]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Michael Riesman: Music from The Hours and Other Film Scores (2006) [Dracula Suite] Orchesta version
Michael Riesman: Dracula (2007) piano version
Bruce Levingston: Nightbreak (2011) [Dracula Suite] piano version
Life: A Journey Through Time (2013) [Seward Sanatorium / Mina on the Terrace] Orchestra version

Philip Glass - Symphony No.10 (2015)


PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No.10
Orange Mountain OMM 0101

SYMPHONY No.10
1. Movement I
2. Movement II
3. Movement III
4. Movement IV
5. Movement V

6. CONCERT OVERTURE

Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

A Brief History of Time (1992)

PIECE: A Brief History of Time (soundtrack)

YEAR: 1992

CAST: ensemble

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: A Brief History of Time (2015)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Michael Riesman: Philip Glass Soundtracks (2008) [piano version]

Philip Glass - A Brief History of Time (2015)


PHILIP GLASS
A Brief History of Time
Orange Mountain OMM 0100

1. Brief History of Time Title
2. Mysterious No.4
3. Bombs With Fidelity
4. Slow, Simple, Sad No.3
5. Mysterious No.1
6. Slow, Simple, Sad No.4
7. Mysterious No.2
8. Hawking Radiation
9. Bombs
10. Dice
11. Hawking Radiation with Brass
12. Climbing the Stairs
13. End with Strings Trumpets
14. Melody in Major
15. Signature
16. Utility No.1
17. House
18. Closing No.1
19. End Credit with Arpeggio and Brass
20. End Credit Major and Minor


String Sextet (2009)

PIECE: String Sextet

arrangement of the Symphony No.3 by Michael Riesman 

YEAR: 2009

CAST: String sextet

PREMIERE: December 12, 2009. NY.

RECORDINGS:
The Glass Chamber Players: Schoenberg / Glass (2010)
Carducci Quartet: String Quartet No.5 / Suite from Dracula (2015)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Satyagraha (1980)

PIECE: Satyagraha

YEAR: 1980

CAST: Orchestra, chorus, 2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 2 tenors, baritone, 2 basses

PREMIERE: September 5, 1980. Stadsschouwburg Theater, Rotterdam

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Satyagraha (1985)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
Part of the opera has been arranged into the first movement of the "Piano Sonata No.1 -Trilogy-"
The sountrack of the film "The Hours" also have some music adapted from "Satyagraha".

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Christopher Bowers-Broadbent: Trivium (1992)  [Act III - Finale] (organ arrangement)
Donald Joyce: Glass Organ Works (1993) [Act III - Finale] (organ arrangement)
Arturo Stalteri: Circles (1998) [Act III - Finale] (piano arrangement)

Bruce Brubaker: Glass Cage (2000) [Act III - Finale] (piano arrangement)

Kevin Bowyer: Music for Organ (2001) [Act III - Finale] (organ arrangement)
Watching, 20th Century Choral and Organ Music (2001) [Act III - Finale] (organ arrangement)

Philip Glass: Up Close (2004) [Act III - Finale] (piano arrangement)
Iveta Apkalna: Live (2006) [Act III - Finale] (organ arrangement)
Andrew Canning: Great European Organs No.78 (2009) [Act III - Finale] (organ arrangement)
Benjamin Saunders at the Organ of the Leeds Cathedral (2010) [Act III - Finale] (organ arrangement)
Philip Glass: Rework (2012) [Protest] (electronic remix)
Lisa Moore: Mad Rush (2015) [Act III - Finale] (piano arrangement)

Mad Rush (1979)

PIECE: Mad Rush

YEAR: 1979

CAST: piano or organ (organ version is also Known as Fourth Series Part IV)

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Solo Piano (1989)
Donald Joyce: Glass Organ Works (1993) [organ version]
Arturo Stalteri: Circles (1998)
Jay Gottlieb: Philip Glass Piano Music (1999)
Jeroen Van Veen: Minimal Piano Works Volume 1 (1999)
Aleck Karis: Philip Glass Piano Music (2000)
Bruce Brubaker: Glass Cage (2000)
Steffen Schleiermacher: Philip Glass Early Keyboard Music (2001) [organ version]
Gideon Rubin: The American Sound (2001)
Johannes Daum: Solo (2001)
Les Rita Mitsouko: En Concert Avec L'Orchestre Lamoreux (2004)
Jeroen Van Veen: Minimal Piano Collection (2006)
Branka Parlic: Philip Glass Metamorphosis (2006)
Philip Glass: Analog (2006) [organ version]
Carol Williams: Madness (2009) [organ version]
Sally Whitwell: Mad Rush, Solo Piano Music of Philip Glass (2011)
Bojan Gorisek: Philip Glass Solo Piano (2013)
Lisa Moore: Mad Rush (2015)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Philip Glass: Rework (2012) [electronic remix]

Glassworks (1981)

PIECE: Glassworks

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

YEAR: 1981

CAST: Ensemble

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:
Philip Glass: Glassworks (1982)
Signal Ensemble: Glassworks Live at Le Poisson Rouge (2011)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
Ransom Wilson: Reich Glass Becker (1982) [Façades]
Philip Glass: Dancepieces (1987) [Rubric / Façades]
London Chamber Orchestra (2004) [Façades]
Philip Glass: Up Close (2004) [Opening / Floe]
Michael Riesman and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra: Music from the Hours and Other Scores (2006) [Closing]
Angele Dubeau & La Pieta: Philip Glass Portrait (2008) [Closing]
Sentieri Selvaggi plays Gavin Bryars & Philip Glass (2008) [Façades]
Piccola Accademia Degli Specchi: Minimamachta (2009) [Opening / Façades]
Lara James: Façades (2009) [Façades]
Lautten Compagney: Timeless (2010) [Opening / Façades]
Philip Glass Ensemble: A Retrospective (2010) [Façades]
Massimo Mercelli Performs Philip Glass (2012) [Façades]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Martin Goldray: La Chiesa -soundtrack- (1988) [Floe] organ version
Arturo Stalteri: Circles (1998) [Opening / Closing] piano version
Jay Gottlieb: Philip Glass Piano Music (1999) [Opening] piano version
Jeroen Van Veen: Minimal Piano Works Vol.I (1999) [Opening] piano version
Aleck Karis: Philip Glass Piano Music (2000) [Opening] piano version
John Sampen & Marilyn Shrude: Visions in Metaphor (2001) [Façades] piano & saxophone version
Ruth Wall: The Uncommon Harp (2004) [Opening] harp version
Alessandra Celletti: Philip Glass Metamorphosis (2005) [Opening] piano version
Jeroen Van Veen: Minimal Piano Collection (2006) [Opening] piano version
Branka Parlic: Philip Glass Metamorphosis (2006) [Opening] piano version
Nathaniel Bartlett: Precipice (2006) [Opening] marimba version
Cello Octet Conjunto Iberico: Glass Reflections (2006) [Façades] (cello octet version)
Bruce Brubaker: Hope Street Tunnel Blues (2007) [Opening] (piano version)
John Lenehan: Philip Glass, The Piano Music (2008) [Opening] (piano version)
Athens Guitar Trio: Emergence (2008) (guitar trio version)
Sally Whitwell: Mad Rush, Piano Music of Philip Glass (2011) [Opening] (piano version)
Massimo Mercelli Performs Philip Glass (2012) [Façades] (flute and piano version)
Lavinina Meijer: Harp (2012) [Opening] (harp version)
Philip Glass: Rework (2012) [Opening / Floe / Island / Rubric] (electronic remixes)
Floraleda Sacchi: Philip Glass Metamorphosis (2012) [Opening / Closing] (harp version)
Christine Hoock: Le Phenix (2013) [Façades] (4 double basses, harpsichord & piano version)
Jeremy Limb: The Piano Music of Philip Glass (2013) [Opening] piano version
Bojan Gorisek: Philip Glass Solo Piano (2013) [Opening] piano version
Philip Glass: Voices for Didjeridoo and Organ (2013) [Island] organ version (mov.III of the "Organ Suite")
Lisa Moore: Mad Rush (2015) [Closing] piano version

Etudes for Piano (1994)

PIECE: Etudes for Piano, book I

The original set of 6 etudes were renumbered as #2, #3, #4, #5, #9 and #10
Etude #7 was originally entitled "Now So Long After That Time"

YEAR: 1994

CAST: piano

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS: 
Philip Glass: Etudes for Piano Vol.I, Nos.1-10 (2002) [Etudes 1-10]
Philip Glass: The Complete Piano Etudes (2014)
Bojan Gorisek: Philip Glass Etudes for Piano Nos.1-10 (2014) [Etudes 1-10]

PARTIAL RECORDINGS:
The WNYC Commissions Vol.I [Now So Long After that Time, AKA Etude No.6]
Bruce Brubaker: Hope Street Tunnel Blues (2007) [Etude No.5]
Maki Namekawa / Dennis Russell Davis: Philip Glass Piano Music (2009) [Etudes 1-6]
Bruce Brubaker: Time Curve (2009) [Etudes 1-6]
Lisa Moore: Mad Rush (2015) [Etude No.2]

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS:
Glass Cuts (2005) [Etudes 1, 2 and 5] electronic remixes
NYU Steel Ensemble Plays Philip Glass (2010) [Etudes 1-10] steel drum ensemble version
Julia Rovinsky: Dark (2012) [Etude No.2] harp version

Lisa Moore - Mad Rush (2015)


MAD RUSH
Lisa Moore
Orange Mountain OMM0099


1. Mad Rush
2. Metamorphosis I
3. Metamorphosis II
4. Metamorphosis III
5. Metamorphosis IV
6. Metamorphosis V
7. Etude No.2
8. Satyagraha Conclusion, Act 3
9. Closing

Lisa Moore, piano

Friday, March 6, 2015

Ransom Wilson - Reich Glass Becker (1982)


RANSOM WILSON
Reich Glass Becker
Angel DS 537340

PHILIP GLASS
1. Façades

STEVE REICH
2. Vermont Counterpoint

FRANK BECKER
3. Stonehenge

CLAUDE DEBUSSY
4. Syrinx

ANDRE JOLIVET
5. Ascèses (I)

Ranson Wilson, flute

Keith Emerson & Goblin - La Chiesa (1988)


KEITH EMERSON & GOBLIN
La Chiesa
Avanz Records SP/CR200013

KEITH EMERSON
1. The Church (Main Theme)

GOBLIN
2. La Chiesa

KEITH EMERSON
3. Prelude 24 (From Well Tempered Clavier)

GOBLIN
4. Possessione

PHILIP GLASS
5. Floe (from Glassworks) [Martin Goldray, organ]

KEITH EMERSON
6. The Possession

GOBLIN
7. Lotte

ZOOMING ON THE ZOO
8. Go To Hell

DEFINITIVE GAZE
9. The Wire Blaze

KEITH EMERSON
10. The Church Revisited
11. The Church (Single Mix)

Athens Guitar Trio - Emergence (2008)


ATHENS GUITAR TRIO
Emergence

MANUEL DE FALLA
1. La Vida Breve

PHILIP GLASS
2. Glassworks: Opening

JOSEPH HAYDN
3. Piano Sonata No. 47: Minuet and Trio

TORU TAKEMITSU
4. Bad Boy

GREGORY W. BROWN
Nine Bagatelles for Guitar Trio
5. Quarter-Note = 70
6. Budongo Magic
7. Adagio lamentoso
8. March/Hymn
9. Berceuse
10. Icosahedral
11. Twisted Pair
12. Impish
13. Bright/Rhythmic

ANTONIN DVORAK
14. Silhouette
15. Humoresque

GABRIEL FAURE
16. Pavane, Op. 50

ARCANGELO CORELLI
Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op.6, No.8
17. I. Vivace-Grave
18. II. Allegro
19. III. Adagio-Allegro-Adagio
20. IV. Vivace
21. V. Allegro; VI. Pastorale

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
The Well-Tempered Clavier
22. Prelude in C minor
23. Fugue in C minor


ATHENS GUITAR TRIO
Dusty Woodruff, guitar
Rylan Smith, guitar
Matthew Anderson, guitar

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Nathaniel Bartlett - Precipice, Modern Marimba (2006)


NATHANIEL BARTLETT
Precipice, Modern Marimba
Albany

PHILIP GLASS
1. Opening (from Glassworks)

ALAN SCHINDLER
2. Precipice

GREG WILDER
3. Interlude

AUGUSTA READ THOMAS
Silhouettes
4. Like Toru Takemitsu Crossed with Bill Evans
5. Like Igor Stravinsky Crossed with Thelonius Monk
6. Like Pierre Boulez Crossed with Oscar Peterson
7. Like Bela Bartok Crossed with Art Tatum

STEVE REICH
8. Vermont Counterpoint

Nathaniel Bartlett, marimba

Ruth Wall - The Uncommon Harp (2004)


RUTH WALL
The Uncommon Harp
GFR GFCD041105

GABRIEL JACKSON
1. Small Encomium For Matthew Greenall

MICHAEL PARSONS
2. Variations
3. October Dance

PHILIP GLASS
4. Opening (from Glassworks)

GRAHAM FITKIN
5. Skirting

PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
6. Farewell To Stromness

RUTH WALL
7. Ia
8. Wedding
9. The Peninsula Run

LAURENCE CRANE
Two Movements
10. Mvt 1
11. Mvt 2

GRAHAM FITKIN
12. Jim And Pam And Pam And Jim

HOWARD SKEMPTON
13. Prelude 2
14. Prelude 6
15. Interlude 7

Ruth Wall, harp

Benjamin Saunders at the Organ of Leeds Cathedral (2010)


BENJAMIN SAUNDERS
At the Organ of Leeds Cathedral
Herald HAVPCD358

LOUIS VIERNE
1. Cathedrales

ARVO PÄRT
2. Trivium

BENJAMIN BRITTEN
3. Playful Pizzicato (simple symphony)

CHRISTOPHORE KUSHNARIOV
4. Passacaglia
5. Fugue

PHILIP GLASS
6. Satyagraha

HERBERT HOWELLS
7. Psalm Prelude

ANTONIN DVORAK
8. Largo (New World Symphony)

ALEXANDRE GUILMANT
9. Marche Triomphale

Benjamin Saunders, organ

Sunday, February 22, 2015

Bojan Gorisek - Philip Glass Etudes for Piano (2014)


BOJAN GORISEK
Philip Glass: Etudes for Piano Nos.1-10
Audiophile Classics APC 101061

1. Etude No.1
2. Etude No.2
3. Etude No.3
4. Etude No.4
5. Etude No.5
6. Etude No.6
7. Etude No.7
8. Etude No.8
9. Etude No.9
10. Etude No.10

Bojan Gorisek, piano

Orbit (2013)

PIECE: Orbit

YEAR: 2013

CAST: cello

PREMIERE: April 2, 2013, Yo-Yo Ma at Le Poison Rouge, NY

RECORDINGS: 
Jeffrey Zeigler: Something of Life (2014)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Jeffrey Zeigler - Something of Life (2014)


JEFFREY ZEIGLER
Something of Life
Innova 905

FELIPE PÉREZ SANTIAGO
1. Glaub

PAOLA PRESTINI
2. Listen, Quiet

JOHN ZORN
3. Babel

PHILIP GLASS
4. Orbit

GITY RAZAZ
5. Shadow Lines

GLENN KOTCHE
6. Something of Life

Jeffrey Zeigler, cello

Monday, February 2, 2015

Etudes for Piano, book II (2013)

PIECE: Etudes for Piano, book II

YEAR: 2013

CAST: piano

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS: 
Philip Glass: The Complete Piano Etudes (2014)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Philip Glass - The Complete Piano Etudes (2014)


PHILIP GLASS
The Complete Piano Etudes
Orange Mountain OMM0098

CD 1:
1. Etude 1
2. Etude 2
3. Etude 3
4. Etude 4
5. Etude 5
6. Etude 6
7. Etude 7
8. Etude 8
9. Etude 9
10. Etude 10

CD 2:
1. Etude 11
2. Etude 12
3. Etude 13
4. Etude 14
5. Etude 15
6. Etude 16
7. Etude 17
8. Etude 18
9. Etude 19
10. Etude 20

Maki Namekawa, piano