The Essential Philip Glass

Glass, P: Lightning Changing Opinion A Gentleman's Honor Naqoyqatsi: Primacy of Number Metamorphosis IV Open the Kingdom (Liquid Days, Part Two) In the Upper Room: Dance II In the Upper Room: Dance VIII Glasspiece No. 1 (Rubric) Glassworks: Floe Funeral of Amenhotep III Point Blank Definition Wichita Vortex Sutra Forgetting In the Upper Room: Dance IX The Dam (Itaipú) Protest (from Satyagraha) Evening Song (from Satyagraha) Kuru Field of Justice (from Satyagraha) Tolstoy Farm (from Satyagraha) Hymn To The Sun (from Akhnaten) Akhnaten and Nefertiti (from Akhnaten) Window of Appearances (from Akhnaten) Epilogue (from Akhnaten) Trial - Prison (from Einstein on the Beach) Knee No. 1 (from Einstein on the Beach) Knee No. 5 (from Einstein on the Beach) Bed (from Einstein on the Beach)

To celebrate Glass’ 75th birthday on January 31, 2012, Sony Classical offers The Essential Philip Glass, a three disc overview of the composer’s prolific output that led to his rise as a cultural icon from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. It encompasses generous selections from the three seminal “Portrait Operas” (Einstein On The Beach, Satyagraha and Akhnaten) that established Glass as a serious, innovative classical composer, 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.

Price: $28.98