Philip Glass: The Symphonies
Various Artists
Philip Glass and his longtime collaborator Dennis Russell Davies offer in this collection an immersive, elegant survey of 10 of the composer’s symphonies. As mysterious as they are sanguine, these works evoke romantic and ominous imagery, engaging one’s feelings about modern life. The Third Symphony’s chord structures and syncopated rhythms toe the line between stability and uneasiness, while the choral Fifth Symphony takes up existential questions, drawing its libretto from a wide range of historical texts from the Bible to the Quran.
I. Before the Creation
Dennis Russell Davies, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Morgan State University Choir, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir
II. Creation of the Cosmos
Ana María Martínez, Eric Owens, Dennis Russell Davies, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Albert Dohmen, Morgan State University Choir
III. Creation of the Sentient Beings
Eric Owens, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Morgan State University Choir, Dennis Russell Davies
IV. Creation of the Human Beings
V. Love & Joy
Dennis Russell Davies, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Eric Owens, Morgan State University Choir, Denyce Graves
VI. Evil & Ignorance
Eric Owens, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Dennis Russell Davies, Albert Dohmen, Ana María Martínez, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Morgan State University Choir
VII. Suffering
Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Morgan State University Choir, Albert Dohmen, Dennis Russell Davies
VIII. Compassion
Eric Owens, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Albert Dohmen, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Morgan State University Choir, Ana María Martínez, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Dennis Russell Davies
IX. Death
Eric Owens, Albert Dohmen, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Morgan State University Choir, Ana María Martínez, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Dennis Russell Davies, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
X. Judgement & Apocalypse
Morgan State University Choir, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Ana María Martínez, Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Albert Dohmen, Eric Owens, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
XI. Paradise
Dennis Russell Davies, Ana María Martínez, Albert Dohmen, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Morgan State University Choir, Eric Owens
XII. Dedication of Merit
Eric Owens, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Albert Dohmen, Morgan State University Choir, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Dennis Russell Davies, Ana María Martínez