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

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

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

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

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]

John Sampen & Marilyn Shrude - Visions in Metaphor (2001)

JOHN SAMPEN & MARILYN SHRUDE

Visions in Metaphor

Albany Records TROY442

JOHN ADAMS
1. Postmark (from Fearful Symmetries)

MILTON BABBITT
2. Accompanied Recitative

KAREL HUSA
3. Postcard from Home

PAULINE OLIVEROS
4. Mirrorrim

WILLIAM ALBRIGHT
5. Postcard from Kansas

SAMUEL ADLER
6. Pensive Soliloquy

MARILYN SHRUDE
7. Continuum (Postscript'97)

BERNARD RANDS
8. Memo 6

MARILYN SHRUDE
9. Visions in Metaphor

PHILIP GLASS
10. Façades

JOAN TOWER
11. Wings

KAREL HUSA
12. Elegie et Rondeau

John Sampen, saxophone
Marilyn Shrude, piano

Bojan Gorisek - Philip Glass Solo Piano (2013)

BOJAN GORISEK

Philip Glass Solo Piano

Audiophile Classics APC 101060

1. Metamorphosis 1
2. Metamorphosis 2
3. Metamorphosis 3
4. Metamorphosis 4
5. Metamorphosis 5
6. Mad Rush
7. Wichita Vortex Sutra
8. Orphee's Bedroom
9. Glassworks (Opening)

Bojan Gorisek, piano

Jeremy Limb - The Piano Music of Philip Glass (2013)

JEREMY LIMB

The Piano Music of Philip Glass

Quartz QT2 2102

CD 1:

1. Opening (from Glassworks)

THE HOURS
2. An Unwelcome Friend
3. Dead Things
4. I'm Going to Make a Cake
5. Something She Has to Do
6. Tearing Herself Away
7. The Hours
8. The Poet Acts
9. Why Does Someone Have to Die?

CD 2:

TRILOGY SONATA
1. Knee Play No.4 from Einstein on the Beach
2. Satyagraha
3. Akhnaten

METAMORPHOSIS
4. Metamorphosis 1
5. Metamorphosis 2
6. Metamorphosis 3
7. Metamorphosis 4
8. Metamorphosis 5

9. Modern Love Waltz

Jeremy Limb, piano

Le Phenix - Solo Double Bass in Baroque and Contemporary Music (2013)

LE PHENIX

Solo Double Bass in Baroque and Contemporary Music

NEOS 21301

ANTONIO VIVALDI
1-4. Sonata for Violoncello and Basso continuo in e minor No.5 (double bass version)

PHILIP GLASS
5. Façades (double basses, harpsichord & piano version)

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
6-9. Sonata No.2 in D major for viola da gamba and harpsichord (double bass & harpsichord version)

ARVO PÄRT
10. Spiegel Im Spiegel (double bass & piano version)

MICHEL CORRETTE
11-13. Le Phenix

JULIEN-FRANCOIS ZBINDEN
14. Hommage a J.S.Bach Op.44 for solo double bass

GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL
15-18. Trio Sonata in g minor for 2 violins and Basso continuo (2 double basses & basso continuo version)

Christina Hoock, double bass

Thomas Martin, double bass
Thomas Jauch, double bass
Stephan Bauer, double bass
Florian Birsak, harpsichord
Barbara Nussbaum, piano

Floraleda Sacchi - Philip Glass: Metamorphosis (2012)

FLORALEDA SACCHI

Philip Glass: Metamorphosis

Amadeus Arte AAP12002

1. Opening (from Glassworks)

HELEN'S TUNE (from Candyman
2. Cue 2a
3. Cue 2b
4. Cue 2c

METAMORPHOSIS
5. I. Moderate
6. II. Flowing
7. III. Moderately Fast
8. IV. Flowing
9. V. Moderate

10. Modern Love Waltz

11. Why Does Someone Have to Die (from The Hours)

"TRILOGY" SONATA
12. I. Knee Play No.4 (from Einstein on the Beach)
13. II. Act III (from Satyagraha)
14. III. Dance (from Akhnaten)

15. Closing (from Glassworks)

Floraleda Sacchi, harp

Philip Glass - Rework (2012)

PHILIP GLASS

Rework

Orange Mountain Music OMM0082

CD 1:

1. Music in Twelve Parts Part 1 (My Great Ghost)
2. Rubric Remix (Tyondai Braxton)
3. Knee 1 Remix (Nosaj Thing)
4. Alight Spiral Snip Philip Glass Remix (Dan Deacon)
5. Warda's Whorehouse Inside Out Version (Amon Tobin)
6. Etoile Polaire Little Dipper (Silver Alert)
7. Floe'87 Remix (Memory Tapes)
8. Opening from Glassworks (Cornelius)

CD 2:
1. NYC: 73-78 (Beck)
2. Protest Remix (Johann Johannsson)
3. Mad Rush Organ Remix (Pantha du Prince)
4. Island Remix (Peter Broderick)

Remixes of Philip Glass Music.

Lavinia Meijer - Philip Glass: Harp (2012)

LAVINIA MEIJER
Philip Glass Harp
Channel Classics CCS SA 33912

1. Opening (from Glassworks)

METAMORPHOSIS
2. Metamorphosis 1
3. Metamorphosis 2
4. Metamorphosis 3
5. Metamorphosis 4
6. Metamorphosis 5

Selection from THE HOURS
7. The Poet Acts
8. Something She Has to Do
9. I'm Going to Make a Cake
10. An Unwelcome Friend
11. Choosing Life
12. The Hours

Lavinia Meijer, Harp
original scores for piano solo transcribed by Lavinia Meijer

Lara James - Façades (2009)

LARA JAMES

Façades

Signum Records SIGCD158

RODNEY ROGERS
1. Lessons of the Sky

ROBERT MUCZYNSKI
Sonata for Alto Saxophone & Piano, Op.29
2. I. Andante maestoso
3. II. Allegro energico

COLIN MacDONALD
4. Here Again

PHILIP GLASS
5. Façades

CHRISTOPHER PAINTER
Sonata for Alto Saxophone & Piano, Op.56
6. I. Moderato
7. II. Lento flessible
8. III. Allegro vivo

GRAHAM FITKIN
9. Glass

Lara James, saxophones
Jeremy Young, piano
Kathryn Price, cello
Sinfonia Viva
Nicholas Kok, conductor

 

Massimo Mercelli Performs Philip Glass (2012)

MASSIMO MERCELLI

Massimo Mercelli Performs Philip Glass

Orange Mountain Music OMM0079

1. Façades for flute and piano

2. Chaotic Harmony for flute and cello

STRING QUARTET No.3 "MISHIMA"
3. Movement I. 1957 Award Montage
4. Movement II. November 25 - Ichigaya
5. Movement III. Grandmother and Kimitake
6. Movement IV. 1962: Body Building
7. Movement V. Blood Oath
8. Movement VI. Mishima / Closing

TAOIST SACRED DANCE
9. I
10. II
11. III

12. Façades

Massimo Mercelli, flute
Carlo Boccadoro, piano
Alberto Martini, violin
Luca Falasca, violin
Flavio Ghilardi, viola
Leonardo Sapere, cello
Rino Braia, double bass

Sentieri Selvaggi Plays Gavin Bryars & Philip Glass (2008)

SENTIERI SELVAGGI

Plays Gavin Bryars & Philip Glass

Cantaloupe CA21048

GAVIN BRYARS
1. Sub Rosa

PHILIP GLASS
2. Façades

SENTIERI SELVAGGI
Danilo Bosio, recorder
Fabrizio Meloni, clarinet
Mirco Ghirandini, clarinet
Andrea Dulbecco, vibraphone
Andrea Rebaudengo, piano
Thomas Schrott, violin
Riccardo Memore, viola
Marco Decimo, cello
Stefano Da´Ora, double-bass
Carlo Boccadoro, conductor

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