Glass, P: Symphony No. 4 ‘Heroes’

the work's main source of influence could hardly be further removed from the symphonic tradition...played with a combination of warmth and vigour by the Sinfonieorchester Basel — Gramophone Magazine, January 2015

Release Date: 4th Aug 2014
Catalogue No: OMM0096
Label: Orange Mountain

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Sinfonieorchester Basel
Dennis Russell Davies

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Orange Mountain Music presents a new recording by the Basel Sinfonieorchester of Philip Glass Symphony No.4 "Heroes". This new recording conducted by Glass champion Dennis Russell Davies is a shimmering rendition of the work. Only the third recording of the Symphony, it has been 18 years since the last one, the previous recording was recorded in the studio sectionally whereas this new OMM recording was made live in Basel Switzerland and captures the vitality and beauty of the work as never heard before. Recorded less than a year after the Orange Mountain Music recording of the companion piece Symphony No.1 "Low", Glass states in discussing the work of Bowie and Eno: "The continuing influence of these works has secured their stature as part of the new "classics" of our time. Just as composers of the past have turned to music of their time to fashion new works, the work of Bowie and Eno became an inspiration and point of departure of symphonies of my own"

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January 2015

the work's main source of influence could hardly be further removed from the symphonic tradition...played with a combination of warmth and vigour by the Sinfonieorchester Basel

Glass, P: Symphony No. 4 ‘Heroes’

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