Glass: Symphony No. 2 and 3
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PHILIP GLASS
Glass: Symphony No. 2 and 3
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor)
[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 5 January 2005
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In both of these pieces, Glass returns (in his way) to his Juilliard roots, writing polyharmonies, rousing finales, and fully formed symphonic sprawls which are far more redolent of, say, the Vincent Persichettis or the William Schumans of his graduate school training than the Laurie Andersons or Terry Rileys of the SoHo 70s.
"Marin Alsop's accounts of these two symphonies are magnetically performed and brilliantly recorded. No. 2, much the longer work in three substantial movements, dates from 1994 and this is unreconstructed minimalism with unrelenting kaleidoscopic repetitions. No. 3, first heard in 1995, is little more than half the length, a piece for 19 strings and optional percussion, with the gentle opening movement serving as prelude to the second and third movements, the one fast, the other a measured chaconne. The fourth movement is brief and brilliant, drawing threads together." (Penguin Guide)
Tracks:
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 2
