Music in Similar Motion (1969)

PIECE: Music in Similar Motion

YEAR: 1969

CAST: any group of instruments

PREMIERE: unknown

RECORDINGS:

Philip Glass: Two Pages / Contrary Motion / Music in Fifths / Music in Similar Motion (1994)

Alter Ego Performs Philip Glass: Music in the Shape of a Square (2001)

Steffen Schleiermacher: How Now (2010)

Signal: Glassworks + Music in Similar Motion Live at le Poisson Rouge (2011)
Eighth Blackbird: Meanwhile (2012)

PARTIAL RECORDINGS: none

ARRANGEMENTS FOR OTHER INSTRUMENTS: none

Eighth Blackbird - Meanwhile (2012)

EIGHTH BLACKBIRD

Meanwhile

Cedille Records CDR 90000 133

MISSY MAZZOLI
1. Still Life with Avalanche

PHILIPPE HUREL
2. ...a mesure

ROSHANNE ETEZADY
3. III. About Time (from Damaged Gods)

STEPHEN HARTKE
Meanwhile: Incidental music to imaginary puppet plays
4. I. Procession
5. II. Fanfares
6. III. Narration
7. IV. Spikefiddlers
8. V. Cradle-songs
9. VI. Celebration

PHILIP GLASS
10. Music in Similar Motion

THOMAS ADES
11. Catch

ROSHANNE ETEZADY
12. IV. Eleventh Hour (from Damaged Gods)


EIGHTH BLACKBIRD

Signal - Glassworks + Music in Similar Motion live at Le Poisson Rouge (2011)

SIGNAL

Glassworks + Music in Similar Motion live at Le Poisson Rouge

Orange Mountain OMM0073

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

7. MUSIC IN SIMILAR MOTION

ENSEMBLE SIGNAL:
Kelly Katzman, flute
Jessica Schmitz, flute, piccolo
Ken Thompson, soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
Bill Kalinkos, soprano sax, clarinet
David Crowell, tenor sax
Josh Rutner, tenor and soprano sax, bass clarinet
Caleb Burhans, viola
Lauren Radnofsky, cello
Matt Marks, french horn
Nathan Koci, french horn

Brad Lubman, conductor
Michael Riesman, piano, keyboard

Philip Glass - Two Pages / Contrary Motion / Music in Fifths / Music in Similar Motion (1994)

PHILIP GLASS

Two Pages / Contrary Motion / Music in Fifths / Music in Similar Motion

Elektra Nonesuch 9 79326-2

1. Two Pages
2. Contrary Motion
3. Music in Fifths
4. Music in Similar Motion

Philip Glass, electric organ
Michael Riesman, piano (1)
Jon Gibson, soprano saxophone (3,4)
Dickie Landry, soprano saxophone (3,4)
Kurt Munkacsi, electronics (3,4)
Steve Chambers, electric organ (4)
Art Murphy, electric organ (4)
Robert Prado, flute (4)

1 and 2 remastered from the original recording "Solo Music" (1975)
3 and 4 remastered from the original recording "Music in Similar Motion and Music in Fifths" (1973)

Steffen Schleiermacher - Philip Glass: How Now (2010)

STEFFEN SCHLEIERMACHER

Philip Glass: How Now

DGScene MDG 613 1600-2

1. Music in Similar Motion
2. How Now
3. Music in Fifths

Steffen Schleiermacher, piano, organ.

Alter Ego Performs Music by Philip Glass - Music in the Shape of a Square (2001)

ALTER EGO

Music in the Shape of a Square

Stradivarius STR 33602

1. Music in Similar Motion
2. Strung Out
3. Piece in the Shape of a Square
4. Gradus (*)
5. Music in Contrary Motion (**)

ALTER EGO:
Manuel Zurria, flute
Paolo Ravaglia, clarinet
Francesco Peverini, violin
Francesco Dillon, cello
Oscar Pizzo, keyboard
Gianluca Ruggieri, marimba

(*) bass clarinet version
(**) ensemble version