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Glass - Concerto Project Vol.III | Orange Mountain Music OMM0042

Glass - Concerto Project Vol.III

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Label: Orange Mountain Music

Cat No: OMM0042

Barcode: 0801837004229

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 26th May 2008

Contents

Artists

Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Rascher Saxophone Quartet

Conductor

Dennis Russell Davies

Works

Glass, Philip

Concerto Grosso
Concerto for Saxophone Quartet (version for four saxophones without orchestra)

Artists

Beethoven Orchester Bonn
Rascher Saxophone Quartet

Conductor

Dennis Russell Davies

About

The Concerto Project Vol. III is the penultimate release in a series of four albums to be issued by Orange Mountain Music documenting the eight Philip Glass concertos to date. Volume III includes Glass’ Concerto Grosso commissioned by the City of Bonn for the opening of the Stadtische Kunstmuseum in the German city in 1992. Each movement of the Concerto Grosso is written for a distinctive group of instruments - the wind, brass and strings, which together make up a symphonic ensemble. In this live 1993 recording it is played by the Beethoven Orchester Bonn conducted by long-time Glass associate Dennis Russell Davies, the musicians who premiered the work – under its original title of Concerto for Three Ensembles – in June 1992.

The second concerto is Glass’ Concerto for Saxophone Quartet, performed by its dedicatees, the internationally renowned Raschèr Saxophone Quartet who premiered the piece at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 1995. Glass conceived the work as both a concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra and in the version sans orchestra which is heard on the current recording. Though the orchestral version was performed first (and is one of Glass' most widely performed orchestral works), it’s the quartet version which has been heard far more frequently – well over 100 times – and was the first to be composed. The work has four movements (slow-fast-slow-fast), each featuring a different member of the quartet.

Raschèr Saxophone Quartet:
- Kenneth Coon
- Christine Rall
- Bruce Weinberger
- Elliot Riley

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