Philip Glass
Einstein on the Beach

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Track Listing

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1.01	Knee 1	8:04
1.02	Train 1	21:25
1.03	Trial 1: Entrance	5:42
1.04	Trial 1: "Mr. Bojangles:	16.29
1.05	Trial 1: "All Men Are Created Equal"	4:30
1.06	Knee 2	6:07
2.01	Dance 1	15:53
2.02	Night Train	20:09
2.03	Knee 3	6:30
2.04	Trial2/Prison: "Prematurely Air-Conditioned Supermarket"	12:17
2.05	Trial2/Prison: Ensemble	6:38
2.06	Trial2/Prison: "I Feel the Earth Move"	4:09
3.01	Dance 2	19:58
3.02	Knee 4	7:05
3.03	Building	10:21
3.04	Bed: Cadenza	1:53
3.05	Bed: Prelude	4:23
3.06	Bed: Aria	8:12
3.07	Spaceship	12:51
3.08	Knee 5	8:04

News & Reviews

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Philip Glass's Opera "Satyagraha" Returns to English National Opera

Philip Glass's seminal 1980 opera Satyagraha returns to English National Opera tonight for a nine-performance run at the London Coliseum through March 10. This follows the production's 2007 London premiere and a 2008 run at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. The Times of London called the production "a masterwork of theatrical intensity and integrity." The Guardian called it “a thing of wonder."
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Philip Glass to Receive Opera News Award; "The Bacchae," with Glass Score, Begins Previews in Central Park

Philip Glass is one of five recipients of the Opera News Awards, announced last week. He is the only composer to be recognized this year; fellow honoree Gerald Finley originated the role of Robert Oppenheimer in John Adams's Doctor Atomic. Original music by Glass will be featured in the Shakespeare in the Park production of The Bacchae, which opens in previews tonight in New York's Central Park. The composer will receive his first-ever BBC Prom at London's Royal Albert Hall tomorrow night, with Gidon Kremer performing his Violin Concerto.

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About this Album

This CD box set is now available for sale in the Nonesuch Store; however, free, instant album MP3 downloads, included with other discs in the Store, are not currently available with box sets.

Glass's career-making 1976 opera, a collaboration with avant-garde impresario Robert Wilson, was revolutionary then, revered now. This "properly hypnotic" 1996 recording, says the Washington Post, is "more complete than the first recording and superior in both performance and sound."

Credits

MUSICIANS
The Philip Glass Ensemble
Jon Gibson, soprano saxophone, flute
Martin Goldray, keyboards
Kurt Munkacsi, sound design
Richard Peck, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
Michael Reisman, musical director, keyboards
Andrew Sterman, flute, piccolo, bass clarinet
Gregory Fulkerson, violin

Chorus
Marion Beckenstein, Lisa Bielawa, Michèle A. Eaton, Kristin Norderval, sopranos
Katie Geissinger, Margo Gezairlian Grib, Elsa Higby, mezzo-sopranos
Jeffrey Johnson, John Koch, Eric. W. Lamp, tenors
Jeff Kensmoe, Gregory Purnhagen, Peter Stewart, baritones
Patrician Schuman, soprano soloist (CD 3, tracks 4-6)
Lucinda Childs, Gregory Dolbashian, Jasper McGruder, Shery Sutton, spoken text

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Kurt Munkacsi and Michael Reisman
Recorded January-June 1993 at The Looking Glass Studios, NYC
Engineers: Dante DeSole, James Law
Assistant: Benno Hotz
Mixed by Michael Reisman at The Looking Glass Studios

All music by Philip Glass; libretto by Philip Glass, Christopher Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson, and Lucinda Childs

Design by John Heiden
Cover photograph by T. Charles Erickson