Philip Glass: The Symphonies

Philip Glass: The Symphonies

Various Artists

2016

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. Subterraneans

Dennis Russell Davies, Sinfonieorchester Basel

16:08

II. Some Are

Dennis Russell Davies, Sinfonieorchester Basel

11:11

III. Warsawa

Dennis Russell Davies, Sinfonieorchester Basel

19:24

I. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

17:37

II. —

Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Dennis Russell Davies

13:41

III. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

11:59

I. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

4:37

II. —

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies

6:15

III. —

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies

10:06

IV. —

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies

3:29

I. Heroes

Sinfonieorchester Basel, Dennis Russell Davies

9:28

II. Abdulmajid

Dennis Russell Davies, Sinfonieorchester Basel

9:24

III. Sense of Doubt

Sinfonieorchester Basel, Dennis Russell Davies

7:29

IV. Sons of the Silent Age

Dennis Russell Davies, Sinfonieorchester Basel

8:37

V. Neuköln

Sinfonieorchester Basel, Dennis Russell Davies

7:58

VI. V2 Schneider

Sinfonieorchester Basel, Dennis Russell Davies

7:17

I. Before the Creation

Dennis Russell Davies, Morgan State University Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir

6:55

II. Creation of the Cosmos

Morgan State University Choir, Eric Owens, Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Albert Dohmen, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Ana María Martínez

6:36

III. Creation of the Sentient Beings

Dennis Russell Davies, Eric Owens, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Morgan State University Choir

7:41

IV. Creation of the Human Beings

Albert Dohmen, Dennis Russell Davies, Eric Owens, Ana María Martínez, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

7:27

V. Love & Joy

Morgan State University Choir, Dennis Russell Davies, Denyce Graves, Eric Owens, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

8:23

VI. Evil & Ignorance

Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Morgan State University Choir, Albert Dohmen, Dennis Russell Davies, Eric Owens, Ana María Martínez, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

5:55

VII. Suffering

Dennis Russell Davies, Albert Dohmen, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Morgan State University Choir

8:28

VIII. Compassion

Dennis Russell Davies, Morgan State University Choir, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Albert Dohmen, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Eric Owens, Ana María Martínez

9:13

IX. Death

Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Morgan State University Choir, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Albert Dohmen, Eric Owens, Dennis Russell Davies, Ana María Martínez

8:39

X. Judgement & Apocalypse

Eric Owens, Morgan State University Choir, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Ana María Martínez, Albert Dohmen, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Dennis Russell Davies, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

8:52

XI. Paradise

Albert Dohmen, Dennis Russell Davies, Morgan State University Choir, Ana María Martínez, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Eric Owens

8:32

XII. Dedication of Merit

Albert Dohmen, Dennis Russell Davies, Eric Owens, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Ana María Martínez, Morgan State University Choir, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir

10:03

I. —

Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies, Lauren Flanigan

20:51

II. —

Lauren Flanigan, Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

11:27

III. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Lauren Flanigan

18:28

I. The Corn

Bruckner Orchester Linz, Linz Opera Chorus, Dennis Russell Davies

11:23

II. The Hikuri (Sacred Root)

Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies, Linz Opera Chorus

10:28

III. The Blue Deer

Dennis Russell Davies, Linz Opera Chorus, Bruckner Orchester Linz

12:55

I. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

19:27

II. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

12:18

III. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

6:57

I. —

Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies

14:18

II. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

20:05

III. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

15:30

I. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

6:15

II. —

Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies

7:07

III. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

5:41

IV. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

6:17

V. —

Dennis Russell Davies, Bruckner Orchester Linz

6:23

Brian Eno

Composer
Philip Glass

Composer
Dennis Russell Davies

Conductor
Sinfonieorchester Basel

Orchestra
Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien

Orchestra, Ensemble