Glassworks
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Topping the Most Popular Works chart is the iconic Metamorphosis. Released as part of the Solo Piano album over three decades ago in 1989, the work refers to and was inspired by the 1915 novella The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka. Island" (2 flutes, 2 soprano saxophones, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, 2 horns, viola, violoncello, synthesizer) 7:39 Company for string orchestra (1983; orchestral version of String Quartet No. 2 Company (1983), see String quartets) Showcasing the truly diverse nature of Philip Glass’ musical output since the 1960s, the Most Popular Works chart features a concerto (Violin Concerto No 1), a symphony (Symphony No 3) and two string quartets (No 2 and No 3). Entirely versatile in his composing approach and delivery, Philip Glass has composed multiple operas including the acclaimed Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, and Akhnaten, chamber operas and musical theatre works, symphonies, concertos, string quartets, chamber music, and several film scores.
Brown Piano, Martingala, Double Rhythm, Boogie Mood, Sax, Variation: alarm bleeps for Swatch wristwatches (1994, some with Jean-Michel Jarre)Philip Glass is one of the world’s most influential, accomplished and revered composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Through his vast repertoire of award-winning compositions and wide-ranging collaborations with music creators ranging from Leonard Cohen to David Bowie and Brian Eno, Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of our times. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (1997, libretto by Doris Lessing, after her second novel from Canopus in Argos)
The Fog of War (Errol Morris, 2003) (an interview of Robert McNamara, former U.S. Secretary of Defense) ABC, which then merges with the next movement, "Floe" with the entrance of the horns. [8] The movement has been arranged for and performed by Gamelan Pacifica. Flute Concerto for flute and orchestra – transcription from Violin Concerto n. 1 (2017 arr. by James Strauss) Waiting for the Barbarians for voices, chorus and orchestra (2005, after the novel by J. M. Coetzee)
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The Photographer for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1982, based on the life of Eadweard Muybridge) Koyaanisqatsi takes the top spot of the Most Popular Film Scores chart. Intrinsic to the 1982 American experimental non-narrative film produced and directed by Godfrey Reggio, Glass' score is noted as a prime example of the ‘minimalist’ school of composition. The score has become so popular in its own right that the Philip Glass Ensemble, comprising the principal performers of the music of Philip Glass, has toured the world performing the score live for concert hall audiences, in sync with film’s captivating visuals. Passages for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra (1989, three movements arranged in 2001 by Dennis Russell Davies) La Belle et la Bête for voices and the Philip Glass Ensemble or chamber orchestra (1994, after the film by Jean Cocteau)
A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris, 1991) (biopic based on Stephen Hawking's popular physics book)Orphée for voices and chamber orchestra (1991, after the film by Jean Cocteau and premiered in 1993) Symphony No.1 (1992) was the first of Philip Glass’ David Bowie symphonies. Based on Bowie’s 1977 album Low, it featured a full orchestra, yet remained true to Glass’s minimalist and postmodernist style. Next was Symphony No.4 (1996) based on one of Bowie’s most famous albums, Heroes . This symphony was made up of six movements, each cleverly derived from a theme from the album. Glass’ enduringly popular score for The Truman Show, starring Jim Carrey, won Best Original Score at the Golden Globes in 1999 and appears third in PRS for Music’s Philip Glass’ Most Popular Film Scores chart, while his score for The Hours, the 2002 film starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Julianne Moore, won the Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music BAFTA in 2003, and appears at number six. The Perfect American (2011, based on the book about Walt Disney by Peter Stephan Jungk, premiered at the Teatro Real, Madrid, on January 22, 2013) Truman Sleeps’ is one of the most popular pieces of music from the film. As Truman closes his eyes, Glass’s beautiful music plays as the camera pans to the audience watching him sleep on TV. It’s not until the camera pans to the studio that we see Glass himself playing the piano. It’s only then we realise the instrumental music we are hearing is actually the score to the fake television show, rather than the movie.
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