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Glass: Symphony No2; Symphony No3

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Alsop

Philip Glass has enjoyed a degree of popularity unusual among contemporary composers. A pupil of Nadia Boulanger, he was also influenced by the Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and has won a reputation as an exponent of minimalism, based on the systematic repetition of a motif, modified or extended.

In both the epically-proportioned Second Symphony and the smaller scale Third Symphony (for chamber orchestra), Glass returns, in his own way, to his roots at the Juilliard School, writing polyharmonies, rousing finales, and fully formed symphonic paragraphs. They are true symphonies in scope, structure and seriousness of purpose.

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Philip Glass: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3

01:07:07

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Glass: Symphony No. 3, for strings

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Alsop

00:23:54

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Glass: Symphony No. 2, for orchestra

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Alsop

00:43:13

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Press Reviews

Collectors Reviews

"Marin Alsop's accounts of these two symphonies are magnetically performed and brilliantly recorded."

The Penguin Guide

"Alsop, a pupil of Leonard Bernstein, again proves herself one of the great champions of the msuic of her homeland."

The Observer

Label:
Naxos

Range:
Naxos American Classics

Catalogue Number:
8559202

Barcode:
636943920220

Release Date:
1st Nov 2004

Recording Date:
21st Jul 2003

Recording Location:
The Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, England

Producer:
Tim Handley

Engineer:
Tim Handley

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