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

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 - Powaqqatsi (1988)

PHILIP GLASS

Powaqqatsi

Elektra Nonesuch 79192-2

1. Serra Pelada
2. The Title
3. Anthem - Part 1
4. That Place
5. Anthem - Part 2
6. Mosque and Temple
7. Anthem - Part 3
8. Train to Sao Paulo
9. Video Dream
10. New Cities in Ancient Lands, China
11. New Cities in Ancient Lands, Africa
12. New Cities in Ancient Lands, India
13. The Unnuterable
14. CAUGHT!
15. Mr.Suso #1
16. From Egypt
17. Mr.Suso #2 with Reflection
18. Powaqqatsi

THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE & ADDITIONAL MUSICIANS
Michael Riesman, conductor.
Foday Musa Suso, kora, balafon, dousongoni, nyander
Shaik Fathy Mady, vocal solo
Al DeRuiter, bass voice
Percussion ensemble.
Hispanic Young People's Chorus





COMPILATIONS AND SAMPLES WITH MUSIC FROM THE ALBUM:

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The Truman Show

Milan 74321 60822-2

6. Anthem - part 2

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

Philip Glass Ensemble - Retrospective (2010)

THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE

A Retrospective

Orange Mountain OMM067

CD 1:
1. Dance 9
2. Music in Twelve Parts, Part 1
3. Music in Twelve Parts, Part 2
4. The Building
5. Façades
6. The Grid

CD 2:
1. The Photographer, Act II
2. Powaqatsi: Mosque / Temple
3. Low Symphony Movement III
4. Akhnaten: Funeral
5. EOB: Spaceship

THE PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE:
Recorded live March 2004
Philip Glass, keyboards
Michael Riesman, keyboards
Lisa Bielawa, voices
Dan Dryden, live sound mix
Stephen Erb, live stage sound
Jon Gibson, soprano saxophone, flute
Richard Peck, alto & tenor saxophone
Mick Rossi, keyboards
Andrew Sterman, flute, soprano saxophone, piccolo