MICHAEL RIESMAN Philip Glass Soundtracks CD OMM0051 £13.85
Philip Glass Soundtracks presents Michael Riesman’s own transcriptions for solo piano of some of the best Glass film scores including No Reservations, Naqoyqatsi, A Brief History Of Time, Anima Mundi, Mishima, La Belle et La Bête, Candyman, The Fog of War, Notes On A Scandal, and The Illusionist. Riesman has conducted and produced almost every Glass soundtrack recording and brings this intimate knowledge to his arrangements and virtuoso piano playing.
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK Philip Glass: Neverwas (filmscore) CD OMM0052 £13.75
The bold, playful and fantastical film score to Neverwas possesses some of Philip Glass’s most accessible and heartfelt music. Although its starry cast featured Sir Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Nolte, Brittany Murphy, Jessica Lange and William Hurt, the 2005 movie about a psychiatrist looking for answers into his father's troubled past never was a success, due in part to limited distribution, but Glass’s beautiful music certainly deserves to be widely heard.
ERTER THEATRE/D. RUSSELL DAVIES Philip Glass: Waiting for the Barbarians 2CD OMM0039 £16.90
World premiere recording of Philip Glass’s recent highly-praised opera based on J M Coetzee’s powerful novel and set to a libretto by Christopher Hampton. This “genuinely moving” work, a harrowing allegory of the war between oppressors and the oppressed, receives its UK premiere at London’s Barbican on 12 June with the same cast, orchestra, chorus and conductor, Dennis Russell Davies, as on these two beautifully-packaged CDs.
PHILIP GLASS (FEAT. SUZANNE VEGA) Recording Archives Vol. 3: CD OMM0048 £13.95
Jenipapo (film score)
Suzanne Vega sings the song ‘Ignorant Sky’ as the climax to the film score Philip Glass composed for Monique Gardenberg’s highly-charged political thriller Jenipapo, starring Canadian actor Henry Czerny, set against the backdrop of the Brazilian landscape and the tumult of political upheaval
BEETHOVEN ORCHESTER BONN / DAVIES Glass: Concerto Project Vol III CD OMM0042 £13.95
The premiere recording of Glass’s Concerto Grosso is paired with one of his most performed works, the Concerto for Saxophone Quartet, on this third disc in a series documenting all eight concertos that Philip Glass has written to date. Both concertos are played by the musicians who premiered them: the Beethoven Orchester Bonn conducted by Dennis Russell Davies and the internationally renowned Raschèr Saxophone Quartet.
PAUL BARNES (piano) The American Virtuoso: Glass, Barber, Tower CD OMM0036 £13.95
American pianist Paul Barnes performs his own solo transcription of Philip Glass’s Piano Concerto No 2 in a virtuosic recital devoted to US composers. Besides this premiere, he plays the landmark 1950 Sonata for piano and the haunting Ballade and Nocturne by Samuel Barber, and two short colourful pieces from Joan Tower’s No Longer Very Clear.
WENDY SUTTER (cello) Philip Glass: Songs and Poems for Solo Cello CD OMM0037 £13.95
Two world premiere recordings of pieces for cello by Philip Glass are paired on this debut solo recording by the American Wendy Sutter. The first, Songs and Poems for solo cello, composed for her last year, emphasises the singing quality of the instrument (here she plays on the renowned “ex Vatican Stradivarius”) while Tissues, written originally for Godfrey Reggio’s celebrated film Naqoyqatsi but not used in the final cut, also features percussionist David Cossin and Glass himself on piano.
PHILIP GLASS / LEONARD COHEN Book of Longing 2CD OMM0043 £16.90
The culmination of years of mutual admiration between two of the most celebrated musical artists of their generation, Book of Longing is an illuminating evening-long song cycle with a score by Philip Glass inspired by the poetry and images of Leonard Cohen. Composed for a unique ensemble including the composer at the keyboard plus four singers,
PHILIP GLASS / ROBERT WILSON The Philip Glass Ensemble
Monsters of Grace, "a digital opera in 3-D" CD OMM0041 £13.95
Premiere recording of an unusual music theatre piece, “a digital opera in three dimensions for ensemble and soloists” that used animated visuals designed by Robert Wilson (viewed by the audience through 3-D glasses) and a transcendent score by Philip Glass which marries exotic sounds to the 13th century Sufi mystic poet Jelaluddin Rumi’s meditations on the range of human experience.
Glass celebrated his 70th birthday with a special weekend, ‘Glassworks’, at London’s Barbican Centre in October.
VIENNA RADIO S O / D RUSSELL DAVIES
From Philip Glass Recording Archives Vol II CD OMM0047 £13.00
Two world premieres of orchestral music by Philip Glass – one a vivid “dance for Dennis Russell Davies and Orchestra”, which paints a musical impression of the colourful Rocinha neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro; and the other an orchestral and choral suite written for a Robert Wilson.
PHILIP GLASS: 600 Lines, How Now etc Alter Ego 2CD OMM0034 £13.95
The Italian ensemble Alter Ego, widely recognized as pioneers of new and experimental music, perform seven seminal works by Philip Glass dating from the late 1960s.. The ‘2 for the price of 1’ double album of 138 minutes’ duration includes four world premiere recordings, among them 600 Lines and How Now.
ANDREW STERMAN The Path to Peace CD OMM0045 £13.95
Well-known as a distinguished saxophonist and flautist in the Philip Glass Ensemble, Andrew Sterman makes his Orange Mountain Music debut as a composer and conductor with The Path to Peace.
COMPOSERS INSIDE ELECTRONICS From the Kitchen Archives Vol 4 CD OMM0046 £13.95
Fourth disc in the archive series from New York’s legendary multi-disciplinary art space, The Kitchen, features live recordings from 1977 and 1978 by the pioneering collective of electronic musicians and sound artists centred around David Tudor called ‘Composers Inside Electronics’. Groundbreaking in their day, these works were created with multiple home-built circuitry devices rather than commercial synthesizers.
PHILIP GLASS Theater Music Vol 1 CD OMM0044 £13.95
Two ravishingly beautiful but little known works written for the theatre - a suite drawn from the chamber opera The Sound Of A Voice and the incidental music to Jane Bowles’ play In A Summer House – make a contrasting coupling in the first of a new series of releases from the vast Philip Glass Recording Archive.
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