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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...

Alter Ego Performs Philip Glass

2 CD / Orange Mountain Music / 2007-02-13

Works: Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion; Strung Out, for amplified violin; Piece in the Shape of a Square, for 2 flutes; Gradus, for soprano saxophone; Contrary Motion; 600 Lines, for ensemble; How Now...
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Ensemble: Alter Ego Ensemble

"The constant shifting sense of where 1 is a feature Alter Ego's rhythmic assertiveness keenly highlights. Their default instrumentation of flute, clarinet, keyboards, electric guitar,...continue...

Philip Glass: Early Keyboard Music

1 CD / MD&G / 2001-03-27

Works: Philip Glass: Contrary Motion; 1+1, for 1 player and amplified table top; Mad Rush; Two Pages
Performers: Schleiermacher, Steffen

Personnel: Steffen Schleiermacher (organ).

Recording information: 2000.

This is the music that gives minimalism its name. These early experiments by Philip Glass show the composer in the...continue...

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
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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 Organ Works - Music of Philip Glass / Donald Joyce

1 CD / RCA Records / 1993-09-14

Works: Philip Glass: Dance; Mad Rush; Contrary Motion; MEDLEY
Performers: Joyce, Donald