Orange Mountain
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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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The dedication throughout is evident, and the programme as a whole would make an excellent introduction to the world of Glass. — More…
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Glass's unusual decision to quote and develop melodic lines and harmonic patterns from rock music imparts a sense of freshness, energy and drive to the work. Of equal importance, perhaps, is... — More…
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Rock Concerto - Road Movies - Symphony No. 3
Robert McDuffie (violin), Mike Mills (piano/bass/guitar), John Neff (guitar), William Tonks (guitar), Patrick Ferguson (drums/percussion)
MCS Ensemble, Ward Stare
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Glass, P: Symphony No. 6 'Plutonian Ode'
Lauren Flanagan (soprano) & Allen Ginsberg (speaker on bonus CD)
Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Dennis Russell Davies
By some way Philip Glass's most powerful concert work, Plutonian Ode, sets a scathing anti-nuclear poem by Allen Ginsberg. An initially dark tonal palette, rich in horns and lower strings,... — More…
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