Orange Mountain
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Glass: Akhnaten
Zachary James (Amenhotep III), Richard Bernstein (Aye), Aaron Blake (High Priest), Will Liverman (General Horemhab), Anthony Roth Constanzo (Akhnaten), Disella Larusdottir (Queen Tye), J'Nai Bridges (Nefertiti), Metropolitan Opera, Karen Kamensek
Costanzo gives so much to the titular role in Philip Glass’s 1983 work…J’Nai Bridges is a dazzling Nefertiti and Dísella Lárusdóttir epitomises regal restraint. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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Glass: Symphony No. 13 'Truth in our Time' James Ehnes (violin), Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Alexander Shelley
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There’s liquidity to the shimmering repetition, and the resonant sound of Glass’s Baldwin piano is closely captured…The evergreen ‘Mad Rush’ soothes through subtle undulations and broken chords... — More…
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Philip Glass: Satyagraha
Richard Croft, Rachelle Durkin, Kim Josephson, Alfred Walker, Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, Dante Anzolini
The cast is on the mark both vocally and physically…this release is especially recommended as a starting point to Glass’s world of music theatre. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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Glass, P: Kepler
Martin Achrainer (Kepler), Cassandra McConnell (soprano 1), Karen Robertson (soprano 2), Katerina Hebelkova (mezzo), Pedro Velázquez Díaz (tenor), Seho Chang (baritone), Florian Spiess (bass)
Chorus of the Landestheater & Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies
It's a challenge to direct, met resourcefully by inventive, fluent and sometimes stylised movement...Musically the performance is impeccable, spaciously paced and energetic - Denis Russell Davies... — More…
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Its extrovert origins as latter-day fireworks music remain clear, though, as Glass’s orchestration, with its brassy edge and martial percussion – lots of snare drum – underlines in Davies’s... — More…
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Glass, P: Symphony No. 9 for large symphony orchestra with expanded brass and percussion
Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies
The piece is full of Glass's usual stylistic elements...The performance is sympathetic and excellent, as you might expect given that Dennis Russell Davies commissioned eight of the ten symphonies... — More…
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…Glass does not simply go through the motions here: the work plumbs great depths in the first movement and sales vast heights in the last. In between, the second movement's impressively harnessed... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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