PHILIP GLASS ~ 2 CD Lot ~ SYMPHONY No. 5 & SONGS FROM LIQUID DAYS
Two CD albums featuring Philip Glass, either in collaboration with a collection of Rock / Pop nobility or in full blown Classical mode, a double disc set of his Symphony No. 5...
- Playtested...each!
- In very good condition, and there are no playback problems, it's all good!
- Various pictures uploaded, all taken from the actual items, what you see is what you get...study the pictures carefully, they are part of the description, too.
- The jewel cases have the usual light scuffing and other small signs of shelfwear, etc, but are in good working order.
- The inlay booklets / cards are in very good condition, any specific details for these items are listed below.
- For tracklisting details see either the pictures of the discs, or the pictures of the rear of the inlay cards...
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Symphony No. 5 - Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya
'The symphony was commissioned and conceived as a millennium celebration work for the Salzburg Festival. The plan was for the symphony to represent a broad spectrum of many of the world's great "wisdom" traditions. Working together with the Very Reverend James Parks Morton of the Interfaith Center of New York and Professor Kusumita P. Pedersen of St. Francis College, Glass synthesized a vocal text that begins before the world's creation, passes through earthly life and paradise, and closes with a future dedication. It looks at the moment of the millennium as a bridge between the past (represented by the Requiem and embodying the first nine movements up to the moment of Death) the present (the Bardo representing the "in between") and culminating in Nirmanakaya (the future manifestation of enlightened activity)...'
Double disc set.
12 tracks and 96 minutes.
On Nonesuch, catalog number79618-2
2000 CD album release.
16 page inlay booklet, with all relevant notes on the work.
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Songs From Liquid Days
' Songs From Liquid Days became Philip Glass' most commercially popular and successful recording. The title holds the clue to the music's accessibility: These are songs, providing a more familiar and comfortable format for appreciating the world of minimalism than Glass' operas or instrumental pieces. Working with such lyrical collaborators as David Byrne and Suzanne Vega, he created radio friendly art music... There is also great variety displayed on this album. While the musical backing is unmistakably Glass, the arrangements and vocal treatments range from the coolly subdued chamber music of "Freezing," featuring the Kronos Quartet and Linda Ronstadt , to the appropriately electrifying and almost new wave-ish "Lightning." The album's highlight, however, is the opener, a ten-minute opus called "Changing Opinion." With unusually oblique lyrics courtesy of Paul Simon, it condenses the odd excitement and drama of a minimalist opera into a single, creative burst of melody, rhythm, and momentum. The minimalist composers originally wanted to reconnect Western art music with a broad, popular audience. On that basis, Songs From Liquid Days may be their single greatest achievement...'
6 tracks and 39 minutes.
On CBS, catalog number MK 39564
1986 CD album release.
12 page inlay booklet, lyrics and track information.
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$15.99
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