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
Morgan State University Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Dennis Russell Davies
II. Creation of the Cosmos
Ana María Martínez, Morgan State University Choir, Eric Owens, Dennis Russell Davies, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Albert Dohmen, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves
III. Creation of the Sentient Beings
Morgan State University Choir, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Dennis Russell Davies, Eric Owens, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
IV. Creation of the Human Beings
V. Love & Joy
Dennis Russell Davies, Morgan State University Choir, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Eric Owens, Denyce Graves
VI. Evil & Ignorance
Eric Owens, Morgan State University Choir, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Ana María Martínez, Dennis Russell Davies, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Albert Dohmen
VII. Suffering
Albert Dohmen, Dennis Russell Davies, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Morgan State University Choir
VIII. Compassion
Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Ana María Martínez, Dennis Russell Davies, Morgan State University Choir, Albert Dohmen, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Eric Owens
IX. Death
Ana María Martínez, Morgan State University Choir, Eric Owens, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Albert Dohmen, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Dennis Russell Davies
X. Judgement & Apocalypse
Eric Owens, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Albert Dohmen, Morgan State University Choir, Ana María Martínez, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Dennis Russell Davies
XI. Paradise
Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Eric Owens, Dennis Russell Davies, Morgan State University Choir, Ana María Martínez, Albert Dohmen
XII. Dedication of Merit
Ana María Martínez, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Eric Owens, Hungarian Radio Children's Choir, Dennis Russell Davies, Michael Schade, Denyce Graves, Albert Dohmen, Morgan State University Choir