The Essential Philip Glass
Description
Limited edition three CD set encompassing generous selections from Glass' three seminal Portrait Operas (Einstein On The Beach, Satyagraha and Akhnaten) that established Glass as a serious, innovative classical composer. This collection also includes Dance scores for Twyla Tharp (In the Upper Room) and Jerome Robbins (Songs from Liquid Days), theater works (The Photographer ), plus music for solo piano and collaborations with artists as wide-ranging as Suzanne Vega, Linda Ronstadt, the Kronos Quartet and Yo-Yo Ma.
Reviews
E**T
Good CD to start with if you want to hear ...
Good CD to start with if you want to hear Mr Glass and where he's coming from - good mixture of his work.
K**K
Fine
Fine
J**N
Quintessential Glass
Ideal for your mp3 player/Walkman the triple cd collection provides a wealth of tracks to sample the works of Philip Glass at leisure, from orchestral to opera, the music provides a great perspective of his works.Certainly worth the money and providing easy listening and an introduction to Glass's opus.
A**S
Sparkling Glass
Here for once is something that's exactly what it says on the packet - essential!Everything you could possibly need.
N**N
perfect introduction.
Features too many songs from Liquid Days album and still manages to leave off Freezing, which was a single and played on Radio 2 at the time of its release so the closest Philip has come to a hit single!If you only know the film scores than this is good primer for future exploration. Good selection from 'The Trilogy' operas. I'd also recommend 'solo piano'.
R**D
Quality. Thankyou
Beautifull, and continually surprising. Good value. RDR
Q**N
Pretentious and stuffy in parts. Some quite good music in places, too.
If you like formal classical vocal material, then CD3 and other parts of the collection will be for you. Personally, the clipped warbling of (OK, highly trained) classical singers drives me absolutely nuts. So the temptation has been to bin CD3 for that reason. I know many classical fans will rear up in indignation at such a phillistine point of view, but hey, you can walk away form this review! The other 2 CDs have some interesting material in them, sometimes reminding me of Penguin Cafe, amidst the familiar avant garde presentation of Philip Glass. Over-all, worth listening through in order to select pieces for your own compilation or play-list.
P**S
Four Stars
good overall view of his work
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