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The Minimalists - Adams, Glass, Reich, Heath / Christopher Warren-Green, London CO

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2013-02-12

Works: John Adams: Shaker Loops; Philip Glass: Facades; Quartet for Strings no 2 ("Company"); Steve Reich: Eight Lines; David C. Heath: The Frontier, for double-bass & orchestra
Performers: Haram, Simon; Harle, John; Lawrence, Chris [Bass]
Conductors: Warren-Green, Christopher
Ensemble: ; London Chamber Orchestra

The 1960's saw the arrival of a new musical style from America: minimalism fascinated classical and op musician alike. The music on this CD is...continue...
Recording information: All Saints Church, Petersham (03/1990)....continue...

Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols / Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury

2 CD / King's College / 2012-10-09

Works: Philip Glass: Facades; Chaotic Harmony, song for voice & cello (for the film "Taiji; Quartet for Strings no 3 ("Mishima"); Taoist Sacred Dance, for piano & flute; Glassworks
Performers: Boccadoro, Carlo; Mercelli, Massimo; Sapere, Leonardo
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen;
Ensemble: I Virtuosi Italiani; King's College Cambridge Choir

With a TV and radio audience of millions, the annual broadcast of the Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols is an essential Christmas tradition for...continue...
Recording information: Sala Maffeiana del Teatro Filarmonico di Verona (02/2009)....continue...

Americana - transcriptions of pieces by Copland, Bernstein, Gershwin, Dvorak, Monroe et al. / Modern Mandolin Quartet

2 CD / Sono Luminus / 2012-08-28

Works: Aaron Copland: Rodeo; Antonin Dvorák: Quartet for Strings no 12 in F major, Op. 96/B 179 "American"; Leonard Bernstein: West Side Story; American Traditional: Shenandoah, folk song; George Gersh...
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Ensemble: The Modern Mandolin Quartet

Sono Luminus presents this uniquely engaging collection of music that embodies the American spirit in Americana, the latest release by Modern Mandolin Quartet. The package...continue...
Recording information: Skywalker Sound, Marin County, California (08/22/2011-08/24/2011).

Fans of the Modern Mandolin Quartet will eagerly snap up Americana, the group's 2012 release on Dorian'...continue...

A Second of Silence / The Knights

1 Super Audio CD / Ancalagon Records / 2012-04-03

Works: Erik Satie: Gymnopedie for piano no 1; Gymnopedie for piano no 2; Philip Glass: Company; Franz Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade, D 118; Symphony no 8 in B minor, D 759 "Unfinished"; Symphony no 3 in D...
Conductors: Jacobsen, Eric

The Knights are an orchestra of friends from a broad spectrum of the New York music world who cultivate collaborative music-making and creatively engage audiences...continue...
Recording information: LeFrak Concert Hall at the Aaron Copland School of Musi (06/23/2010-06/25/2010)....continue...

Philip Glass & Michael Nyman: Works for Saxophone Quartet / sonic.art

1 CD / Genuin / 2012-01-31

Works: Philip Glass: Quartet for Strings no 3 ("Mishima"); Saxophone Quartet, for 4 saxophones; Michael Nyman: Songs for Tony
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Ensemble: Sonic.Art Saxophonquartett

Electric - or perhaps more fittingly electrifying - are the sounds emanating from the loudspeakers. And all of it is unplugged. The sounds are created...continue...
Personnel: Alexander Doroshkevich (alto saxophone); Annegret Schmiedl (baritone saxophone).

Recording information: Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany (02/28/2011-03/01/2011)....continue...

Sculthorpe, Sallinen, Glass, Nancarrow / Kronos Quartet

1 CD / Nonesuch / 2011-10-04

Works: Peter Sculthorpe: String quartet; Aulis Sallinen: Quartet for Strings no 3 ("Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March"), Op. 19; Philip Glass: Company; Conlon Nancarrow: Quartet for Strings...
Performers: Dutt, Hank; Harrington, David; Heanrenaud, Joan; Sherba, John [Violin]
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Ensemble: Kronos Quartet

This recording is representative, according to the liner notes, of what a Kronos Quartet concert might be like. There are performances by a disparate selection of contemporary composers with a catchy ...continue...

Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass

2 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2011-05-10

Works: Philip Glass: Bent, film score suite for string quartet; Quartet for Strings no 3 ("Mishima"); Quartet for Strings no 1; Quartet for Strings no 4 ("Buczak"); Quartet for Strings no 2 ("Company"); Qua...

On this new set from Orange Mountain, the fast-rising New York-based ensemble Brooklyn Rider performs the complete works for string quartet by Philip Glass. The...continue...

Schoenberg/Glass

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2010-09-14

Works: Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, for string sextet, Op. 4; Philip Glass: Sextet for Strings

Orange Mountain Music presents the debut recording by the newly-formed Glass Chamber Players - a group of virtuoso soloists including artistic director and cellist Wendy...continue...
Recording information: Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York (12/2009)....continue...

Glass: String Quartets Nos. 1-4

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-06-29

Works: Philip Glass: Quartet for Strings no 2 ("Company"); Quartet for Strings no 3 ("Mishima"); Quartet for Strings no 1; Quartet for Strings no 4 ("Buczak")

Although Philip Glass came late to the string quartet, his contribution to the genre has since become a significant one. This disc features the first...continue...
Recording information: Holy Innocents Church, Highnam, Gloucestershire, UK (12/08/2008-12/10/2008)....continue...

Times & Spaces

1 CD / Blue Griffin / 2010-05-11

Works: Philip Glass: Saxophone Quartet, for 4 saxophones; Takuma Itoh: Echolocation, for saxophone quartet; Roger Petersen: Chasing the Silence, for saxophone quartet; In Dreams, for saxophone ensemble; Dav...
Performers: Forger, James; Lulloff, Joseph; Nichol, John; Rosenberg, Thomas; Webber, Jonny [Drums]
Conductors: ; Sedatole, Kevin
Ensemble: H2 Quartet

The award-winning h2 quartet's second recording, Times & Spaces, features contemporary saxophone music by American composers Philip Glass, Takuma Itoh, David MacDonald, John Mackey, and...continue...
Recording information: Blue Griffin's Studio The Ballroom (10/24/2009-10/25/2009)....continue...

Glass: Portait / Angèle Dubeau, La Pietà

1 CD / Analekta / 2008-10-14

Works: Philip Glass: La Belle et la Bête, opera; The Hours; Quartet for Strings no 3 "Mishima"; The Secret Agent; Echorus; Quartet for Strings no 2 ("Company"); Closing
Performers: Baril, Louise-Andree; Breault, Josianne; Bresse, Arianne; Charlebois-Deschamps, Mariane; Cousineau, Yu; Drobac, Ana; Dubeau, Angele; Gadbois, Annie; Gagne, Martine; Giugariu, Andra; Lizotte, Caroline...
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Ensemble: La Pietà (Orchestra)

Award winning violinist Angele Dubeau & La Pieta performs the music of Philip Glass written for strings. This recording has been approved by Glassworks, Philip...continue...

Glass Box - Philip Glass Nonesuch Retrospective

10 CD / Nonesuch / 2008-09-30

Works: Philip Glass: Contrary Motion; Music with Changing Parts; Music in Similar Motion; Music in 12 parts; Einstein on the Beach; Closing; North Star; Dressed like an Egg; Mad Rush; MEDLEY; Koyaanisqatsi;...
Performers: Allen, Sanford; Anderer, Joseph; Arner, Leonard; Baker, Timothy; Balm, Neil; Barab, Seymour; Bargen, Karl; Bauch, Ethan; Beckenstein, Marion; Benary, Barbara; Benincasa, Rex; Bielawa, Lisa; Bielecki,...
Conductors: Riesman, Michael; Keene, Christopher; ; Davies, Dennis R.; Goldray, Martin; Ingman, Nick
Ensemble: ; American Composers Orchestra; Bruckner Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; Kronos Quartet; Lyric Quartet; New York City Opera Orchestra; Philip Glass Ensemble; Quena Ensemble; String Orchestra; S...

This elegantly packaged 10-disc retrospective surveys four decades of work by Philip Glass, from his earliest solo pieces to his world-renowned operas to his Oscar-nominated...continue...

American Classics - Four American Quartets - Evans, Glass, Antheil, Herrmann / Fine Arts String Quartet

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-07-29

Works: Ralph Evans: Quartet for Strings no 1; Philip Glass: Quartet for Strings no 2 ("Company"); George Antheil: Quartet for Strings no 3; Bernard Herrmann: Echoes

This recording gathers four string quartets by American composers who are widely divergent in style and manner, and who have made a distinctive and personal...continue...

EMI American Classics - Minimalism - Reich, Glass, etc / Thomas, Warren-Green, Wilson, London CO, et al

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2008-06-24

Works: Steve Reich: Vermont Counterpoint; Eight Lines; New York Counterpoint; Four Organs; Philip Glass: Facades; Company
Performers: Damiens, Alain; Thomas, Michael Tilson; Wilson, Ransom
Conductors: Thomas, Michael Tilson; Warren-Green, Christopher
Ensemble: London Chamber Orchestra; Solisti New York

Minimalism was originally the word used to describe certain movements in the visual arts and design of the immediate post World War II period. Then,...continue...

Philip Glass: The Concerto Project Vol 3 / Dennis Russell Davies, et al

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2008-05-13

Works: Philip Glass: Concerto Grosso, for orchestra; Saxophone Quartet, for 4 saxophones
Conductors: Davies, Dennis R.;
Ensemble: Beethovenhalle Orchestra; Raschèr Saxophone Quartet

The Concerto Project Vol. III is the penultimate installment in a series documenting the eight Glass concertos. Each movement of the 'Concerto Grosso' - performed...continue...

Glass: Complete String Quartets / The Smith Quartet

2 CD / Signum UK / 2008-04-05

Works: Philip Glass: Quartet for Strings no 3 ("Mishima"); Quartet for Strings no 2 ("Company"); Quartet for Strings no 4 ("Buczak"); Quartet for Strings no 1; Quartet for Strings no 5

Following the critically acclaimed albums, 'Different Trains' and 'Ghost Stories', Signum is pleased to announce the release of The Smith Quartet's latest album, the complete...continue...

Of Beauty & Light - The Music of Philip Glass

4 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-03-25

Works: Philip Glass: The Light; Heroes Symphony; Symphony no 3; Symphony no 2; Company; Concerto for Violin; Akhnaten; Krzysztof Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima; Conlon Nancarrow: Toccata ...
Performers: Anthony, Adele; Berman, Boris; Castets, Maryse; Gunn, Nathan; Isherwood, Nicholas; Kliegel, Maria; Mikkola, Laura; Moser, Elsbeth; Plaetner, Jorgen; Rabus, Kathrin; Shorr, Aaron; Skaerved, Peter Shep...
Conductors: Alsop, Marin; Yuasa, Takuo; Wit, Antoni; ; Zender, Hans; Hillier, Paul; Lyndon-Gee, Christopher; Kent, Fuat; Lintu, Hannu; Benedek, Tamás
Ensemble: ; Albert Schweitzer Quintet; Art Nouveau Ensemble; Continuum

This beautifully designed 4 CD package contains the complete Naxos recordings of the work of Philip Glass including: The Light, Heroes Symphony, Symphonies 2 &...continue...

Invitation - Sax Quartets - Glass, Bach, etc / Tetraphonics

1 Super Audio CD / Cybele Import / 2007-08-14

Works: Philip Glass: Saxophone Quartet, for 4 saxophones; Frank Reinshagen: The Invitation, for saxophone quartet; Barbara Thompson: Saxophone Quartet no 2 ("From Darkness into Light"); Zdenek Lukas: Rondo ...
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Ensemble: Tetraphonics

Since its founding in 1994, Tetraphonics has performed many works written especially for them as well as the "classics" of the Saxophone Quartet repertoire. The...continue...

Reflections- Glass / Arizcuren, Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2006-10-10

Works: Philip Glass: Symphony no 3; Quartet for Strings no 2 "Company"; Quartet for Strings no 3 "Mishima"; Facades; The Secret Agent; Akhnaten
Performers: Aijtink, Ronald; Bierbrauwer, Martijn de Graaf; DenHerder, Jeroen; Kops, Robert; Lammers, Astrid; Putowski, Robert; Spendonk, Jean Paul van; Stokvis, Ilona; Visser, Bert
Conductors: Arizcuren, Elias
Ensemble: Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico

In 1999, composer Philip Glass heard a movement of his third symphony played by the Cello Octet Conjunto Iberico in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and he was...continue...

Glasscuts - Philip Glass Remixed

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2005-09-13

Works: Philip Glass: Another Look at Harmony, Part IV, for chorus & electric organ; Etudes (10) for Piano; Concerto for Saxophone Quartet, for sax quartet & orchestra; Tirol Concerto, for piano & orchestra;...
Performers: Barnes, Paul [2~Jazz]; Coon, Kenneth; Davies, Dennis Russell [Piano/Conductor]; Glass, Philip; Raschèr, Carina; Riesman, Michael; Weinberger, Bruce; White, Harry-Kinross
Conductors: Riesman, Michael; ; Davies, Dennis R.
Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble; Raschèr Saxophone Quartet ; Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; Western Wind Vocal Ensemble

It has been said that Philip Glass is the 'Godfather of Trance' and evidence of that is found in the remixes that a number of...continue...
Personnel: Dennis Russell, Dennis Russell Davies (piano)....continue...

Glass - Saxophone

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2003-11-01

Works: Philip Glass: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet, for sax quartet & orchestra; Melodies, for saxophone; The Windcatcher, for flute & piano
Performers: Glass, Philip; Rascher Saxophone Quartet; Sterman, Andrew
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Ensemble: Raschèr Saxophone Quartet ; Woodwinds of the Philip Glass Ensemble (Woodwinds)

Personnel: Richard Peck (woodwinds, saxophone); Jon Gibson , Andrew Sterman (woodwinds); Carina Raschèr (soprano saxophone); Harry White (alto saxophone); Bruce Weinberger (tenor saxophone); Kenn...continue...

American Classics - Glass: Violin Concerto, etc / Anthony

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2000-05-01

Works: Philip Glass: Company; Concerto for Violin; Akhnaten
Performers: Anthony, Adele
Conductors: Yuasa, Takuo
Ensemble: Ulster Orchestra

Philip Glass is one of the most innovative contemporary composers, and has made a considerable reputation for himself in the field of composition now generally...continue...

From the Steeples and the Mountains / London Gabrieli Brass

1 CD / Hyperion / 1999-08-01

Works: Charles Ives: From the Steeples and Mountains for Brass and Bells; Processional "Let there be light"; Samuel Barber: Mutations from Bach's "Christe, du Lamm Gottes"; Roy Harris: Chorale for Organ and...
Performers: Chimes, John; Clews, Richard; Emery, Terence; Gillard, Roy; Holland, James; Larkin, Christopher [Horn]; Lee, Dave; London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble; McLeod, James; Nutty, Kevin; Ronayne, John; Sax, Sid...
Conductors: Larkin, Christopher
Ensemble: London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble

'Performances are ideal. The British have given us a thoroughly American disc of extraordinary beauty; for which, many thanks!' (Fanfare, USA)

'Fascinating... the most interesting and...continue...
Recording information: 1991.

This collection of 20th century American compositions for brass ensemble features as its title track Charles Ives' eerie From the Steeples to the Mountains -- a cha...continue...

25 Years: Retrospective

10 CD / Nonesuch Import / 1998-10-20

Works: John Adams: John's Book of Alleged Dances, for string quartet; Arvo Pärt: Fratres; Psalom, for string quartet; Summa; Missa sillabica, for chorus; Ken Benshoof: Traveling Music no 4, for string ...
Performers: Brosnan, Michael; Hargis, Ellen; Hillier, Paul; Krakauer, David; Kronos Quartet; Nolan, Mark; Piazzolla, Astor; Rogers, Neal; Takahashi, Aki

The 20th century has not been kind to most standard classical music forms. The piano sonata, the concerto, the symphony -- none of them have disappeared entirely, but none remain in a state that could...continue...

Glass: Symphony no 2, etc / Dennis Russell Davies, et al

1 CD / Nonesuch / 1998-04-21

Works: Philip Glass: Symphony no 2; Orphée, chamber opera; Concerto for Saxophone Quartet, for sax quartet & orchestra
Performers: Davies, Dennis Russell [Piano/Conductor]; ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra; Rascher Saxophone Quartet; Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Conductors: Davies, Dennis R.
Ensemble: Raschèr Saxophone Quartet; Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

"...Symphony No. 2 was a BAM commission, and although it is presented as an escapade in polytonality, to me it sounds like Glass from the...continue...
Personnel: Raschèr Saxophone Quartet (saxophone).

Recording information: Austrian Broadcasting Studios, Vienna, Austria (09/1996-10/1996); Liederkranzhalle, Stuttgart, Germany (09/1996-10/...continue...