Glass, Philip > Riesman, Michael

The Essential Philip Glass / The Philip Glass Ensemble [3 CDs]

3 CD / Sony Classical / 2012-01-24

Works: Philip Glass: Songs from Liquid Days; Glassworks; The Photographer; Naqoyqatsi; Metamorphosis; Liquid Days; In the Upper Room; Glasspieces; Akhnaten; Wichita Vortex Sutra, for piano; Itaipu; Satyagra...
Performers: Andoniadis, George; Cummings, Claudia; Dunkel, Paul; Esswood, Paul; Fowler, Bernard [Producer/Songwriter]; Gibson, Jon [Avant-Garde]; Glass, Philip; Hauptmann, Cornelius [Bass Vocal]; Hiskey, Iris; K...
Conductors: Riesman, Michael; Davies, Dennis R.; Shaw, Robert; Keene, Christopher
Ensemble: ; Philip Glass Ensemble

Philip Glass: Glassworks; Music in Similar Motion

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2011-03-08

Works: Philip Glass: Closing; Music in Similar Motion
Performers: Riesman, Michael
Conductors: Lubman, Bradley
Ensemble: Signal (Chamber Ensemble)

'Glassworks' had never been performed live in its entirety in New York City until the fast-rising new music ensemble Signal asked Philip Glass Ensemble music...continue...
Recording information: Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY (04/11/2010)....continue...

Koyaanisqatsi [Original Motion Picture Score]

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2009-08-11

Works: Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi
Performers: Barab, Seymour; Dane, Jean; De Ruitaer, Albert; Dean, Allan; Deck, Warren; Flynn, George; Gibson, Jon [class / sax]; Gordon, Peter [Horn]; Gould, Mark [Trumpet]; Hershey, Lowell; Israel, Theodore; Ja...
Conductors: Riesman, Michael

The new release from Philip Glass' record label Orange Mountain Music presents, for the first time, the complete original soundtrack from the classic Godfrey Reggio...continue...

Philip Glass Soundtracks / Michael Riesman, et al

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2008-11-11

Works: Philip Glass: Anima Mundi; Jenipapo; La belle et la bête; Neverwas set; Notes on a Scandal; A Brief History of Time Selections; Mishima; Naqoyqatsi "Life as War"; The Illusionist; The Fog of Wa...
Performers: Riesman, Michael
Conductors: Riesman, Michael
Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble

Michael Riesman is the conductor and producer of nearly every Philip Glass soundtrack recording. Riesman has artfully served Glass' music as a producer, conductor, transcriber...continue...
Personnel: Michael Riesman (piano).

Recording information: Looking Glass Studios, New York, NY....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...

From the Philip Glass Recording Archive Vol 4 - Neverwas

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2008-09-09

Works: Philip Glass: Neverwas set
Performers: Riesman, Michael
Conductors: Riesman, Michael

"...the performance is very impressive and gives a good account of what the Philip Glass Ensemble can accomplish in a concert setting... overall I think...continue...
Personnel: Michael Riesman (piano).

Recording information: Looking Glass Studios, NY, NY....continue...

Glass: Book of Longing

2 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2007-12-11

Works: Philip Glass: Book of Longing
Performers: Cohen, Leonard; Erat, Will; Fain, Tim; Glass, Philip; Hugo, Tara; Keeling, Daniel; Marolf, Megan; Oppenheim, Eleonore; Plaisant, Dominique; Riesman, Michael; Rossi, Mick; St. John, Kate; Sterman, And...
Conductors: Riesman, Michael

A new work by Philip Glass based on the poetry of Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing is a song cycle composed for ensemble, singers, spoken...continue...

Glass: Dracula / Michael Riesman

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2007-03-20

Works: Philip Glass: Dracula
Performers: Riesman, Michael

In 2004 Orange Mountain Music released an album of solo piano transcriptions of Philip Glass' Oscar and Golden Globe nominated score to The Hours. These...continue...
Personnel: Michael Riesman (piano).

Recording information: Looking Glass Studios, New York, NY....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 - Early Voice / Mabou Mines, Western Wind, et al

1 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2003-12-01

Works: Philip Glass: Music for Voices, incidental music; Another Look at Harmony, Part IV, for chorus & electric organ
Performers: Glass, Philip; Mines, Mabou; Riesman, Michael; Western Wind
Conductors: ; Riesman, Michael
Ensemble: Mabou Mines; Western Wind Vocal Ensemble

Personnel: Mary Ann Hart (mezzo soprano); Lawrence Bennet (tenor); William Zukof (countertenor); William Lyon Lee (tenor saxophone); Michael Riesman (organ).

Recording information: Paula Coope...continue...

Glass: Aguas de Amazona / UAKTI

1 CD / Philips / 1999-08-03

Works: Philip Glass: Seven or Eight Pieces for a Ballet; Metamorphoses (5)
Performers: Amaral, Regina Stela; De Souza, Decio Filho; Dos Santos, Paulo Sergio; Guimaraes, Marco Antonio; Ribeiro, Artur Andres; Riesman, Michael
Conductors: Guimaraes, Marco Antônio
Ensemble: Uakti

Glass: Two Pages, Contrary Motion, etc / Philip Glass, et al

1 CD / Warner Classics / 1994-02-01

Works: Philip Glass: Two Pages; Contrary Motion; Music in 5ths; Music in Similar Motion
Performers: Chambers, Steve; Gibson, Jon [Avant-Garde]; Glass, Philip; Landry, Dickie; Landry, Richard; Munkacsi, Kurt; Murphy, Arthur; Prado, Robert; Riesman, Michael
Conductors:
Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble

Personnel: Philip Glass (organ); Robert Prado (flute); Jon Gibson , Dickie Landry (soprano saxophone); Michael Riesman (piano); Arthur Murphy, Steve Chambers (organ); Kurt Munkasci (electronics).
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Glass: Dancepieces / Riesman, Philip Glass Ensemble

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1987-04-21

Works: Philip Glass: In the Upper Room; Glasspieces, ballet for chamber ensemble (from "Glassworks" & "Akhnaten")
Performers: Abramowitz, John; Ajemian, Anahid; Allen, Sanford; Anderer, Joseph; Barab, Seymour; Barber, Julien; Brown, Al; Carlisle, Robert; Christensen, Don; Colleta, Harold; Dunkel, Paul Lustig; Fujikawa, Mayu...
Conductors: Riesman, Michael
Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble

Personnel: Philip Glass (keyboards); Jill Jaffe (violin, viola); Anahid Ajemian (violin, piano, synthesizer); Elliot Rosoff, Mayuki Fukuhara, Sanford Allen, Carol Pool (violin); Julien Barber, Maureen...continue...

Glass: Songs from Liquid Days

1 CD / Sony Classical / 1987-01-01

Works: Philip Glass: Songs from Liquid Days, songs (6) for voice & chamber ensemble
Performers: Dunkel, Paul Lustig; Fowler, Bruce; Gibson, Jon; Kripl, Jack; Peck, Richard; Pendarvis, Janice; Perry, Douglas; Riesman, Michael; Roches, The [Folk]; Ronstadt, Linda
Conductors: Riesman, Michael
Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble

Additional recording for this disc took place at The Complex, Los Angeles, California.

Songs From Liquid Days became Philip Glass' most popular and successful recording. The title holds the clu...continue...