Opera, Glass, P (composer)
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This is an achievement on a pretty spectacular new level, and the range of musical sensibility she demonstrates here is vast...her rhythmic sense [in the Ligeti] keeps the music aloft and totally... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, Insturmental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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as soon as the Orphée selection begins, it's obvious that the Labèques’ relish for Glass’s romping arpeggios, motoric rhythms and common or tricky harmonic shifts is undimmed. —
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Glass: Akhnaten
Zachary James (Amenhotep III), Richard Bernstein (Aye), Aaron Blake (High Priest), Will Liverman (General Horemhab), Anthony Roth Constanzo (Akhnaten), Disella Larusdottir (Queen Tye), J'Nai Bridges (Nefertiti), Metropolitan Opera, Karen Kamensek
Costanzo gives so much to the titular role in Philip Glass’s 1983 work…J’Nai Bridges is a dazzling Nefertiti and Dísella Lárusdóttir epitomises regal restraint. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Contemporary
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Opera
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The Best of Philip Glass
Philip Glass (organ, piano), Philip Glass Ensemble (miscellaneous ensemble), Janice Pendarvis (vocal), Jack Kripl (flute, bass clarinet, clarinet, piccolo, soprano saxophone), Richard Peck (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone), Jon Gibson (soprano saxophone), Linda Moss (viola), Lois Martin (viola),...
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Special offer. Philip Glass: Glassworlds Vol. 6
America - Piano Concerto No. 2
Nicolas Horvath (piano)
There are two versions of the famous Wichita Vortex Sutra here, one with narration, one without, offering some fascinating comparisons. Perhaps most illuminating of all is Three Pieces from... —
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ARC – Glass / Handel
RecommendedAnthony Roth Costanzo (countertenor)
Les Violons du Roy, Jonathan Cohen
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Glass, P: Einstein on the Beach
RecommendedHelga Davis, Kate Moran, Antoine Silverman
The Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman, Robert Wilson (director), Lucinda Childs (choreographer)
Its four principal vocalists – Kate Moran is vocally and visually particularly arresting – and choir cope admirably with the fiendish demands of Glass’s now trademark repetitions of solfege,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Opéra
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Special offer. Glass, P: Einstein on the Beach
RecommendedThe Philip Glass Ensemble, Michael Riesman, Robert Wilson (director), Lucinda Childs (choreographer)
The static tableaux are as much art installation as music theatre, and need to be seen rather than just heard —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Opéra
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100 Violin Masterworks
Isaac Stern (violin), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Nathan Milstein (violin), Georges Pludermacher (piano), David Garrett (violin), Daniel Hope (violin), Jacques Ammon (piano), Gidon Kremer (violin), Leslie Pearson (organ & harpsichord), Radoslaw Szulc (concertmaster), Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Kammerorchester...
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