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Philip Glass - Music in Twelve Parts | Orange Mountain Music OMM0049

Philip Glass - Music in Twelve Parts

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Label: Orange Mountain Music

Cat No: OMM0049

Barcode: 0801837004922

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 4

Release Date: 25th August 2008

Contents

Artists

Philip Glass Ensemble

Works

Glass, Philip

Music in Twelve Parts

Artists

Philip Glass Ensemble

About

Orange Mountain Music is proud to present the premiere recording of the unabridged Music in Twelve Parts performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble with the composer on keyboards. This 4-disc set contains a new recording of the entire work. Glass’ Music in Twelve Parts may be the most seminal work of the minimalist movement.  The entire four-hour piece has come to be viewed as a summation of all of Glass’ achievements of the period and came to inform many of the composer’s later works. A massive piece written for his own group of musicians, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Music in 12 Parts was recorded by the group in Rovereto Italy in 2006, more than 30 years after most of the same musicians premiered it at New York City’s Town Hall.

Tim Page describes the work: “Music in Twelve Parts, written between 1971 and 1974, is a deliberate, encyclopaedic compendium of some techniques of repetition the composer had been evolving since the mid 1960s. It holds an important place in Glass's repertory - not only from a historical vantage point (as the longest and most ambitious concert piece for the Philip Glass Ensemble) but from a purely aesthetic standard as well, because Music in Twelve Parts is both a massive theoretical exercise and a deeply engrossing work of art.”

Philip Glass: “It was a breakthrough for me and contains many of the structural and harmonic ideas that would be fleshed out in my later works. It is a modular work, one of the first such compositions, with twelve distinct parts which can be performed separately, in one long sequence, or in any combination or variation.”

Tracks:
 
CD1
1) Part 1 (16.07)
2) Part 2 (16.21)
3) Part 3 (16.28)

CD2
4) Part 4 (20.58)
5) Part 5 (17.16)
6) Part 6 (15.01)

CD3
7) Part 7 (20.34)
8) Part 8 (18.37)
9) Part 9 (12.41)

CD4
10) Part 10 (17.27)
11) Part 11 (15.01)
12) Part 12 (18.03)

Philip Glass Ensemble: Lisa Bielawa vocals; Jon Gibson soprano saxophone, flute; Dan Dryden live sound mix; Philip Glass keyboards; Richard Peck alto & tenor saxophones; Andrew Sterman flute, soprano saxophone, piccolo; Mick Rossi keyboards; Michael Riesman keyboards and musical direction

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