Glass / Raiskin / Rhenish Phil Orch - Complete Syms 1 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Daily Toil 2. Rest 3. Shades 4. Dawn 5. Fantasy, Op. 47 - Marianna Shirinyan/Staatsorchester Rheinische Philharmonie

This program reverses time, revealing the Metamorphosis in Glass's work from his 1980s film and theatre transcriptions, through The Olympian composed for the Los Angeles Olympiad, to rarities such as the dream-like Coda. The Trilogy Sonata highlights Glass's renowned operas from the celebratory Akhnaten Dance to the stately Satyagraha and landmark Einstein on the Beach. The dazzling pulse-patterns of Two Pages make it a milestone of minimalism, while the Sonatina No. 2 is a pre-minimalist work composed when Glass was a student of Darius Milhaud at Juilliard. Album Tracks 1. Metamorphosis I 2. Metamorphosis II 3. Metamorphosis III 4. Metamorphosis IV 5. Metamorphosis V 6. The Olympian - Lighting of the Torch and Closing 7. III. Akhnaten, Act II, Scene 3 Dance 8. Coda 9. II. Satyagraha, Act III Conclusion 10. A Secret Solo 11. I. Einstein on the Beach Knee Play No. 4 12. Two Pages 13. Piano Sonatina No. 2

Craig Morris, former principal trumpet player of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has recorded brilliant solo trumpet versions of three Philip Glass classics. Morris's new recording features works ranging from Glass's constantly shifting 'Melodies' (1995) to the driving minimalist rhythms and figures of 'Gradus' (1968) and 'Piece in the Shape of a Square' (1967). 'Melodies' was written as incidental music for a play based on the novel, Un Captif Amoureux (Prisoner of Love) by the French author Jean Genet. Glass's thirteen melodies cover a wide range of emotion, from touching and introspective to joyous and dancing. The visual element of 'Piece in the Shape of a Square,' is much more a part of the composition than it is in 'Gradus.' The music is set up in a roughly 10' square, with one performer on the inside of the square and one performer on the outside. The performer on the inside moves around the square in a clockwise direction, while the performer on the outside moves around in a counterclockwise direction. Virtuoso trumpeter Craig Morris plays both parts on this fascinating recording.