Philip Glass: Up Close
(2006)
CATALOG:
TRACKS:
| 1. | Opening (from Glassworks) | 4:26 | ||
| 2. | Floe (from Glassworks) | 6:00 | ||
| 3. | Act III (from Satyagraha) | 8:17 | ||
| 4. | Train/Spaceship (from Einstein on the Beach) | 17:19 | ||
| 5. | Movement I (from The Saxophone Concerto) | 6:27 | ||
| 6. | Overture (from La Belle et la Bęte) | 3:53 |  |
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| 7. | Another Look at Harmony, Part IV (edited excerpt) | 18:05 | ||
| 8. | Modern Love Waltz | 4:22 |
NOTES:
Philip Glass: Up Close was originally created as an audio accompaniment to New York's Metropolitan Museum's exhibition Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration on minimalist artist Chuck Close.
It is available for download exclusively at iTunes music store.
Contemporaries Philip Glass and Chuck Close often build their works with repeating modules, fragments of sound or form that vary slightly. With Glass's music, the layered melodies and rhythms yield a constantly changing soundscape, which changes as the listener focuses on particular modules or on the whole sound panorama. With Close's art, the viewer is similarly prodded to examine the dynamic of part to whole.
Glassworks, Opening: Philip Glass Ensemble live at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London in 1982. Piano by Michael Riesman. Glassworks (1981) is Philip Glass's first major-label record release, wherein he introduced melodic content to his rhythmic constructions. The slow piano solo in Opening is contrasted by the frenetic energy of Floe (track 2).
Glassworks, Floe: Philip Glass Ensemble live at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London in 1982.
Satyagraha, Act III: Piano by Michael Riesman. Piano transcription by Michael Riesman. Satyagraha is the second opera in Glass's portrait trilogy. Michael Riesman's piano arrangement captures Glass's reintroduction of traditional form into his style.
Einstein on the Beach, Train/Spaceship: Philip Glass Ensemble live at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London in 1982 (edited excerpt). This track includes two climactic moments from Glass's first opera.
The Saxophone Concerto, Movement I: Raschčr Saxophone Quartet. The saxophone found permanent tenure in the Philip Glass Ensemble from very early on. The Raschčr Quartet commissioned this work.
La Belle et la Bęte, Overture: Piano by Michael Riesman. Piano transcription by Michael Riesman. Glass set this opera to be performed in synchrony with Jean Cocteau's silent film of the same name.
Another Look at Harmony, Part IV: Vocals by Western Wind. Organ by Michael Riesman (edited excerpt). Highly modular melodies and rhythmic motives play prominently in the foreground of this work.
Modern Love Waltz: Piano by Philip Glass. This was originally a piano piece written for a radio reading and was later used in a dance performance entitled "The Waltz Project."
CREDITS:
Music Composed by Philip Glass.
The original recordings in this compilation were produced by Kurt Munkacsi
and conducted by Michael Riesman.
Philip Glass: Up Close was produced by Don Christensen for Orange Mountain
Music, Inc., 632 Broadway, Suite 902, New York, NY 10012.
Cover: Phil/Fingerprint. Chuck Close, American, b. 1940. Lithograph, 50 x 58
in., 1981. Photograph by Ellen Page Wilson, Courtesy of Pace Prints, New York.
© Chuck Close
Philip Glass's music is published by Dunvagen Music Publisher Inc. (ASCAP),
632 Broadway, Suite 902, New York. NY 10012.
(p) and © by Orange Mountain Music, Inc.
RELATED COMPOSITIONS:
- Glassworks
- Satyagraha
- Einstein on the Beach
- Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra
- La Belle et la Bęte
- Another Look at Harmony - Part IV
- Modern Love Waltz
RELATED RECORDINGS:
- Saxophone on Orange Mountain Music
- Early Voice on Orange Mountain Music
CATEGORIES:
Chamber, Keyboard, Choral, Film, Opera, PGE, Concerto
