Glass Symphony 12

Orange Mountain Music presents a new studio recording of Philip Glass's Fifth Symphony performed by Trinity Wall Street, Novus NY, Trinity Youth Chorus, and a remarkable group of soloists in a new recording celebrating the 20th anniversary of the piece which premiered on 28 August 1999 at the Salzburg Festival as part of the celebrations around the Millennium.At 100 minutes long, Glass's Fifth Symphony is his magnum symphonic opus. The piece reflects a journey of human experiences through texts of the world's various "Wisdom Traditions" (religions).

Orange Mountain Music presents this new limited edition 11 disc boxed set - The Symphonies by Philip Glass. This collection features conductor Dennis Russell Davies who has arranged the commission of nine of ten Glass symphonies, leading the orchestras over which he has presided during the past 15 years including the Bruckner Orchester Linz, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonieorchester Basel, and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. This collection is the fruit of a 20 year collaboration between Glass and Davies and showcases a wide variety within this surprising body of work by Glass.

Symphony No. 10 is the tenth symphony by the American composer Philip Glass. The work was commissioned by the Orchestre Français des Jeunes and premiered August 9, 2012, with Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Orchestre Français des Jeunes at the Grand Théâtre de Provence in Aix-en-Provence, France.[1] The piece had its United Kingdom premiere July 31, 2013 at The Proms in Royal Albert Hall.

Symphony No.12 "Lodger" represents the conclusion of a thirty year artistic collaboration for Philip Glass using elements of music and texts by David Bowie and Brian Eno. It premiered in January 2019 with vocalist Angélique Kidjo, organist James McVinnie and John Adams conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Philip Glass began his path as a composer of symphonies in 1992 at age of 55 with "Low Symphony" based on music by Bowie and Eno. It was followed in 1995 by Symphony No.4 "Heroes" also based solely on the music of Bowie and Eno. Over two decades later, after Bowie's death in 2016, Glass returned to the idea of concluding the trilogy by approaching the album Lodger as a symphonic subject. This world-premiere recording from Filharmonie Brno and conductor Dennis Russell Davies features Angélique Kidjo and organist Christian Schmitt.

Philip Glass has enjoyed a degree of popularity unusual among contemporary composers. A pupil of Nadia Boulanger, he was also influenced by the Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and has won a reputation as an exponent of minimalism, based on the systematic repetition of a motif, modified or extended. In both the epically-proportioned Second Symphony and the smaller scale Third Symphony (for chamber orchestra), Glass returns, in his own way, to his roots at the Juilliard School, writing polyharmonies, rousing finales, and fully formed symphonic paragraphs. They are true symphonies in scope, structure and seriousness of purpose.

It did not take long before symphonic music had taken a central role in Louis Glass’ compositional career. He was thirty when he completed his first symphony in 1894 and by the end of 1899, his second was already finished. Two more years went by before he composed his third, the Forest Symphony. However, it was seven years before he wrote his next symphony. In 1905, Glass began work on his fourth symphony while he was finishing up his String Quartet in F-sharp Minor Op. 35, one of his main chamber music works. The symphony was completed in 1908; however, it was only premiered on 20 March 1911, when it was performed in Copenhagen by the Danish Concert Society. The conductor was the later Royal Conductor Georg Høeberg, who had never conducted a symphony by Glass before, although he had performed the chamber music of his friend several times. Among other pieces, he participated in the premiere of the Second Violin Sonata, which Louis Glass had completed in 1904 and had dedicated to the Høeberg, who also an outstanding violinist. The fourth symphony immediately attracted attention and was not only performed in Copenhagen many times from 1912 to 1933 but also abroad: 1912 in St. Petersburg, 1918 in Christiania (Oslo), 1919 in Stockholm, 1920 and 1926 in Helsinki, 1928 in Wiesbaden and 1930 in Warsaw. In the first four years after the composer’s death (1936), it was played three more times; afterwards, there have been no other public performances.