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

Friday, April 24, 2009

Kronos Quartet Leads Carnegie Hall Performance of Terry Riley's Groundbreaking "In C" Tonight

Terry Riley's groundbreaking Minimalist masterwork In C turns a remarkable 45 years young this year. To celebrate, Kronos Quartet has gathered about 60 performers, many of whom participated in the piece's premiere in San Francisco in 1964, to join them and the composer to perform the work in Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium for the first time. Playbill calls the piece "the minimalist musical be-in that altered the course of music history." New York magazine says, "Carnegie Hall’s extravaganza should yield a rich, polychrome stew of sound."
Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Mercury News: West Coast Premiere of Seminal Philip Glass Work "Moves Toward Euphoric Breakthrough"

Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble gave a marathon performance of the composer's seminal piece Music in Twelve Parts at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall Monday night. It was the West Coast premiere of the complete work, which had received its world premiere 35 years ago in New York. "I loved it," exclaims San Jose Mercury News critic Richard Scheinin. The piece, "with its youthful energy and imagination, is such a beguiling paradox. At first, it seems so narrow in sound, limited by its minimalist methods. But then, unfolding like time itself, it comes to contain so much. It opens up, grows vast."

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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