Philip Glass - The Essential Philip Glass (1993)

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Artist: Philip Glass
Title: The Essential Philip Glass
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Sony Classical [SBK91115]
Genre: Classical, Modern Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 74:55
Total Size: 344 MB(+3%) | 177 MB(+3%)
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Tracklist

1. Lightning (from Songs From Liquid Days) 6:42
2. Changing Opinion (from Songs From Liquid Days) 10:38
3. Façades (from Glassworks) 7:21
4. A Gentleman's Honor (from The Photographer) 3:17
5. The Kuru Field of Justice (Extract) (from Satyagraha) 6:09
6. Protest (from Satyagraha) 4:19
7. Evening Song (from Satyagraha) 4:07
8. Hymn to the Sun (from Akhnaten) 6:16
9. Window of Appearances (from Akhnaten) 4:22
10. Bed (from Einstein On The Beach) 3:40
11. Dance VIII (from Dancepieces) 4:58
12. Metamorphosis Four (from Solo Piano) 7:00
13. Closing (from Glassworks) 5:59

Philip Glass - The Essential Philip Glass (1993)

The Essential Philip Glass, an album of 13 tracks taken from previous Sony releases, presents something of a dilemma: it gives a good idea of what some of Glass' music sounds like, but at the same time it badly misrepresents what much of Glass' music is actually about. Glass, in developing his "music with repetitive structures" (the description he preferred to minimalism), was creating a new kind of musical experience, one in which the traditional temporal expectations of a piece of music are overturned, where changes happen incrementally and very slowly over a long (sometimes a very long) span of time. A common response to his work, particularly his earlier pieces up through the mid-'70s, was boredom followed by a visceral jolt when the listener was suddenly hit by the power of the slowly evolving changes. The snippets on this album convey the sound of Glass' music, but their brevity rules out the possibility of their having the impact the composer intended. The producers who assembled this collection try to sidestep the problem by selecting a number of works from the composer's later period that in their entirety are short, including tracks from the albums Glassworks and Songs From Liquid Days. The excerpts from the operas are more problematic. "Bed," from Einstein on the Beach, is cut by about two-thirds, and the excerpts from Satyagraha and Akhnaten suffer the same fate, shortened to a third to a half of their original length. Still, the album is not without its merits. All the gripping performances are by the Philip Glass Ensemble (sometimes augmented by guest soloists), or in the case of Satyagraha and Akhnaten, taken from the original cast albums. The producers have certainly picked some of Glass' prettiest music, except for the two pop-y ramblings from Songs From Liquid Days. The tracks from Glassworks, Façades and Closing, are the most successful here because they are complete and have the simple elegance of the composer's best work. The three selections from Satyagraha, perhaps the composer's masterpiece, are beautifully sung by tenor Douglas Perry, and even in their truncated form, can't help but elicit a frisson.
It's hard to know exactly who the target audience is, since any fan of Glass' will probably already have much of this material and would probably want it in its complete form if they did not. If there is anyone in the world who is not familiar with his music, this disc would make a fair introduction to some of his most popular works, from a narrow stylistic slice of his output. The title -- The Essential Philip Glass -- seems like a misnomer; A Tasting of Philip Glass is more like it.~Stephen Eddins

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jojo5
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Thank you so much!!!!It is like the albums:
Philip Glass & Joanna Sochacka - Joanna Sochacka Plays Philip Glass: Piano Works (2026)
Philip Glass & Sussan Deyhim - Once Within A Time (2025)
Philip Glass - Glass - A Selection (2022)
Philip Glass & Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus & Dante Anzolini & Richard Croft - The Civil Wars - Philip Glass: Satyagraha (2021)
Philip Glass & Maki Namekawa - Philip Glass: Piano Sonata (2020)
Philip Glass & The Philip Glass Ensemble - Music in Twelve Parts (2022)
Philip Glass & Pawel Markowicz - Philip Glass: Symphony for Solo Piano (2020)
Philip Glass & Tenzin Choegyal - The Last Dalai Lama? (2020)
Philip Glass & Eleonor Sandresky - Glass/Sandresky: Strange Energies (2020)
Philip Glass & Olivia Belli - Philip Glass: Metamorphosis I-V (2019)
Philip Glass & James Strauss & Camerata Simon Bolivar & Alfonso Lopez Ch. - Philip Glass: Venezuelan Elegy (2019)
Philip Glass - Philip Glas:King lear (2020)
Philip Glass & Trinity Wall Street - Philip Glass: Symphony No. 5 "Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya" (2019)
Philip Glass & Michael Riesman & Chase Spruill - Philip Glass Soundtracks, Vol. II (2019)
Philip Glass & The city of Prague Philharmonic & Richard Hein - Philip Glass: Samurai Marathon (2019)
Philip Glass & Robert Black - Philip Glass: The Not-Doings of an Insomniac (2019)
Philip Glass & Foday Musa Suso & Asher Delerme & Leo Heiblum - The Suso/Glass Quartet (2018)
Philip Glass & Bruckner Orchester Linz & Dennis Russell Davies - Philip Glass: Symphony No. 11 (2006)
Philip Glass & Matt Haimovitz - Philip Glass: Partitas for Solo Cello (2017)
Philip Glass & Dennis Russell Davies - Philip Glass: Symphony No. 5 "Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya" (2000)
Philip Glass - Philip Glass: Symphony No. 3 (2000)
Philip Glass - Philip Glass: Symphony No. 6: Plutonian Ode (2005)
Philip Glass & Dennis Russell Davies & Bruckner Orchester Linz - Philip Glass: Symphony No. 7 "Toltec" (2010)
Philip Glass & Dennis Russell Davies & Bruckner Orchester Linz - Philip Glass: Symphony No. 8 (2006)
Philip Glass & Dennis Russell Davies & Bruckner Orchester Linz - Philip Glass: Symphony No 9 (2012)
Philip Glass - Symphony No.1 'Low' (2014)
Philip Glass - Symphony No.4 'Heroes' (2014)
Philip Glass - How Now / Strung Out (2014)
Philip Glass - The Complete Piano Etudes (2014)
Philip Glass - Galileo Galilei (2013)
Philip Glass - The Passion Of Ramakrishna (2012)
Philip Glass - Rework: Philip Glass Remixed (2012)
Philip Glass - Metamorphosis - The Hours (2012)
Philip Glass - Concerto For Cello And Orchestra No. 1 (2011)
Philip Glass - Phaedra: The Non-Mishima Music (2011)
Philip Glass - In The Penal Colony (2011)
Philip Glass - How Now (2010)
Philip Glass - In The Upper Room (2009)
Philip Glass - Theater Music (2007)
Philip Glass - Kepler (2010)
Philip Glass - Dances & Sonata (2006)
Philip Glass - Roving Mars (2006)
Philip Glass - Glass Cuts [Philip Glass: Remixed] (2005)
Philip Glass - Tirol Concerto For Piano And Orchestra And Selections From Passages (2004)
Philip Glass & Walter Werzowa - Taking Lives (2004)
Philip Glass - The Fog Of War (2003)
Philip Glass - A Descent Into The Maelström (2002)
Philip Glass - Early Keyboard Music (2001)
Philip Glass - Saxophone (2002)
Philip Glass - London (2001)
Philip Glass - Minimal Piano Works Volume 1 (1999)
Philip Glass - Two Pages; Contrary Motion; Music In Fifths; Music In Similar Motion (1994)
Philip Glass - The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Philip Glass - Wien, AT (1983)
Philip Glass - Einstein On The Beach (1978)
Philip Glass - North Star (1977)
Philip Glass - Music With Changing Parts (1974)
Philip Glass & Dennis Russell Davies & Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid - Philip Glass: The Perfect American (2016)
Philip Glass & Tim Fain - Philip Glass: Partita for Solo Violin (Tim Fain Plays Philip Glass) (2016)
Philip Glass & Dublin Guitar Quartet - The Dublin Guitar Quartet performs Philip Glass (2014)
Philip Glass - Philip Glass: A Brief History of Time (2015)
Philip Glass & Daniel Medina de la Rosa & Roberto Carillo Cocio - Philip Glass: Concert of the Sixth Sun (2013)
Philip Glass & The Philip Glass Ensemble & New York Philharmonic & Collegiate Chorale & Michael Riesman - Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi with Orchestra (Live) (2014)
Philip Glass & Massimo Mercelli - Massimo Mercelli performs Philip Glass (2012)
Philip Glass - The Essential Philip Glass - Deluxe Edition (2012)
Philip Glass & The Philip Glass Ensemble & Michael Riesman & Robert Wilson - Philip Glass: Einstein on the Beach (feat. Robert Wilson) (1979)
Philip Glass & Bang on a Can All-Stars - Philip Glass:Music in Fifths (2004)
Philip Glass & Michael Riesman - Philip Glass: Soundtracks (2008)
Philip Glass & Wendy Sutter & The Glass Chamber Players - Glass/Schoenberg (2010)
Philip Glass - Philip Glass Sampler (2010)
Philip Glass - Glass - A Portrait of Philip In Twelve Parts (2009)
Philip Glass - From the Philip Glass Recording Archive, Vol. IV: Neverwas (2008)
Philip Glass & The Philip Glass Ensemble - Philip Glass: Music in Twelve Parts (1993)
Philip Glass & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Marin Alsop - Glass: Symphony No. 4 "Heroes", The Light (2007)
Philip Glass & Icebreaker - Philip Glass: Music With Changing Parts (2007)
Philip Glass & Michael Riesman & The Philip Glass Ensemble - Philip Glass:Dancepieces (2006)
Philip Glass & Dennis Russell Davies & Maki Namekawa - Reich & Glass: Music 4 Hands (2005)
Philip Glass & Michael Riesman & The Philip Glass Ensemble - Philip Glass: Up Close (2003)
Philip Glass & NYU Steel - Philip Glass: Glass/Steel (2001)
Philip Glass - Glassmaters (1997)
Philip Glass - Oeuvres Majeures (1995)
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