Saxophone is the fourth disc to be released on Orange Mountain Music, a label which was established to bring music from Philip Glass's own archive and studio to a wider public. The three previous discs, which feature vocal and film music, have been welcomed by critics and Glass fans alike; this new CD promises to be equally well received. The disc opens with the quartet version of Glass' ...
Manufacturer: Orange Mountain
Manufacturer: Sony Classical
Manufacturer: Brilliant
Phalanxes of woodwinds, organs, and voices pulse through Philip Glass's most famous opera like nothing so much as a migratory flock engaged in acrobatics overhead. There is no center to the kinetic activity; the down beat might shift, in split-second hindsight, to the up beat, and the synthesizer might suddenly upstage the libretto of nonsense syllables. The exuberant cacophony of overlapping ...
Manufacturer: Nonesuch
Manufacturer: Sony
Manufacturer: Virgin TV
