ORANGE MOUNTAIN MUSIC the label of Philip Glass music

Release date: 27 August ORANGE MOUNTAIN

ANDREW STERMAN The Path to Peace CD OMM0045
Well-known as a distinguished saxophonist and flautist in the Philip Glass Ensemble, Andrew Sterman makes his Orange Mountain Music debut as a composer and conductor with The Path to Peace, a new dance work which receives its stage premiere in America this summer. It is inspired by the spiritual journey of Mahatma Gandhi, the result being lyrical, passionate and profound, as personal as it is universal.

COMPOSERS INSIDE ELECTRONICS From the Kitchen Archives Vol 4 CD OMM0046
Fourth disc in the archive series from New York’s legendary multi-disciplinary art space, The Kitchen, features live recordings from 1977 and 1978 by the pioneering collective of electronic musicians and sound artists centred around David Tudor called ‘Composers Inside Electronics’. Groundbreaking in their day, these works were created with multiple home-built circuitry devices rather than commercial synthesizers.

Release date: 25 June ORANGE MOUNTAIN MUSIC

PHILIP GLASS Theater Music Vol 1 CD OMM0044
Two ravishingly beautiful but little known works written for the theatre - a suite drawn from the chamber opera The Sound Of A Voice and the incidental music to Jane Bowles’ play In A Summer House – make a contrasting coupling in the first of a new series of releases from the vast Philip Glass Recording Archive.
The composer gave a solo piano concert which opened the Lichfield Festival on 5 July.

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PHILIP GLASS: Dracula (film score) Michael Riesman, piano CD OMM0035
The 13-strong ensemble Icebreaker, considered by many to be the UK’s leading new music ensemble with its appeal to contemporary classical, rock and alternative music audiences alike, gives a vivid, fresh interpretation of Glass’s milestone composition from 1970. Music With Changing Parts greatly influenced Brian Eno, in turn becoming hugely significant in the creation of much popular and New Age music of the ‘70s and ‘80s.

PHILIP GLASS: Music With Changing Parts Icebreaker CD OMM0033
New virtuosic version for piano of Philip Glass’s haunting score for ‘Dracula’, the original 1931 film starring Béla Lugosi as the world’s best-known vampire, arranged and performed by Michael Riesman. To follow his successful piano arrangement of ‘The Hours’, Riesman chose Glass’s music for the horror classic because of “its seductive moods of tempestuous fury and eerie mystery, throbbing tension and quiet lyricism”.

PHILIP GLASS: Analog Philip Glass (electric keyboards) CD OMM0029
Three seminal works from Philip Glass’s ouvre are performed by the composer, overdubbing on various electric keyboards: his very first film score Étoile Polaire (North Star), written for a documentary about sculptor Mark di Suvero; the incidental music Dressesd Like An Egg; and the substantial organ work Mad Rush. All the performances are new to CD.

PHILIP GLASS: Glass Reflections Cello Octet Conjunto Iberico / Elias Arizcuren CD OMM0032
The renowned Cello Octet Conjunto Ibérico and conductor Elias Arizcuren have transcribed several of Philip Glass’s most memorable pieces for their ensemble, among them Company, Symphony for Eight, suites from his film scores for Mishima and The Secret Agent, and excerpts from his opera Akhnaten.

PHILIP GLASS: The Witches Of Venice (+ book) CD & Book OMM0031
Created for La Scala, Milan, this entrancing children’s ‘opera-ballet’ by Philip Glass is based on a fantastical and charming story by Italian stage designer, illustrator and author Beni Montresor about a lonely boy’s adventures in Venice, rescuing a girl from the Witches of the Grand Canal. This premiere CD recording, issued with the book newly republished in hard-back, will appeal both to children and to serious listeners to Glass’s music.

PHILIP GLASS: Concerto Project Vol 2 Paul Barnes/Northwest C O/ Ralf Gothóni etc CD OMM0030
Ralf Gothóni conducts the world premiere recordings of two recent concertos by Philip Glass, the dynamic Piano Concerto No 2,
After Lewis and Clark, celebrating the 200^th anniversary of the explorers’ legendary journey across America, and the Concerto for harpsichord and orchestra, with elements of both jazz and baroque styles. The respective soloists are distinguished American artists Paul Barnes and Jillon Stoppels Dupree.

PHILIP GLASS with UAKTI: Uakti / Marco Antônio Guimarães CD OMM0026
Aguas da Amazonia
UAKTI – Aguas da Amazonia, a colourful aural journey through the waters of the Amazon, was composed by Philip Glass for the Brazilian dance company Grupo Corpo and is performed here by their compatriots, the award-winning group Uakti whose exciting playing on their own exotic instruments constructed from everyday materials has delighted audiences worldwide.

PHILIP GLASS: The Voyage Landestheater Linz / Dennis Russell Davies 2CD OMM0017
Philip Glass’s gripping opera The Voyage, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera for the 500^th anniversary of Columbus arrival in the New World, receives its world premiere recording in a stellar performance by the Bruckner Orchester, chorus of the Landestheater Linz and a wonderful ensemble cast of singers, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.

ARTHUR RUSSELL Another Thought CD OMM0027
Philip Glass’s label reissues the album Another Thought by classically trained composer, cellist and disco artist Arthur Russell who died in 1992, both as a celebration of an especially haunting and inspiring collection of his very personal songs and as a tribute to the great musical innovator

SONIC YOUTH/SWANS/ARTHUR RUSSELL
Amplified: New Music Meets Rock, ‘81-86 CD OMM0024
Philip Glass’s label presents its third – and very different – release of music from the legendary New York experimental venue, The Kitchen. Amplified features Sonic Youth, Swans, Arthur Russell, Christian Marclay and more in live performances recorded over 20 years ago which capture an explosive energy that still feels fresh, vibrant and vital.

PHILIP GLASS: Symphony No. 8 Bruckner Orchester Linz / Russell Davies CD OMM0028
Philip Glass’s most recent symphony – No 8, a purely instrumental work unlike the previous three – receives its world premiere recording six months after its first performance by the same superb artists, the Bruckner Orchestra of Linz, Austria, and their Chief Conductor, Dennis Russell Davies. A long-time collaborator, Davies has premiered all but one of Glass’s symphonies and is an exceptional interpreter of his music.

P. GLASS/ MESSIAEN/ RAVEL/ SATIE Portraits / Bruce Levingston (piano) CD OMM0025
Young American pianist Bruce Levingston, a leading exponent of contemporary music, premieres Philip Glass’s A Musical Portrait of Chuck Close (an artist who is a friend of the composer and has made many portraits of him) and plays short pieces by three French masters, Ravel, Messiaen and Satie, all of which “share a kinship through the power and subtlety of their expression”.

MAKI NAMEKAWA / D RUSSELL DAVIES GLASS / REICH Music 4 Hands CD OMM0022
Steve Reich’s famous, seminal work for two pianos, Piano Phase, and the new arrangement Six scenes from ‘Les Enfants Terribles’, the opera by Philip Glass, are performed with great panache by Japanese pianist Maki Namekawa and American conductor/pianist Dennis Russell Davies on a thoroughly enjoyable - and unusual - recording.

PHILIP GLASS Les Enfants Terribles 2CD OMM0019
Les Enfants Terribles is an unusual hybrid piece - a dance-opera spectacle - adapted from Jean Cocteau’s famous work by composer Philip Glass and choreographer Susan Marshall. This stunning, premiere recording features four singers and three pianos (one played by Glass himself) telling the story of a brother and sister, caught up in their own imagined world, that ends in tragedy.

PHILIP GLASS/STEVE REICH
Images 4 Music DVD 0183750013
Music and images are fascinatingly combined on this imaginative DVD on which Steve Reich’s famous Piano Phase and Six scenes from ‘Les Enfants Terribles’, the opera by Philip Glass, are performed by pianists Maki Namekawa & Dennis Russell Davies - accompanied by dazzling electronic visuals by several leading American and Austrian artists involved with the Ars Electronica Centre in Linz.

PHILIP GLASS The Music of Undertow (film score) CD OMM0016
Philip Glass’s evocative score for the uniquely American dramatic thriller Undertow creates just the right mix of mystery, sensitivity and grunge required for a tale of violent legacies involving two generations of brothers in the swamps of Georgia in the Deep South. Starring Jamie Bell (of Billy Elliott fame) and Dermot Mulroney, the film is released in the UK this summer.
STEVE REICH/Six Pianos/Pendulum Music

Steve Reich and Musicians, Live 1977 CD OMM0018
Steve Reich’s own group performs five seminal works from the celebrated American composer’s early career – including the famous Six Pianos, Violin Phase, and part of Drumming - in a live recording made at New York’s legendary experimental arts venue, The Kitchen, in May 1977, and now released for the first time as part of Orange Mountain’s series ‘From the Kitchen Archives’.

PHILIP GLASS: REMIXED Glass Cuts CD OMM0023
Philip Glass, known in some quarters as “The Godfather of Trance”, attracts attention from countless remixers around the world. Glass Cuts brings together 13 such exciting remixes – dance, techno and ambient interpretations by young producer/musicians of a wide range of pieces - vocal and instrumental music and film scores - that have been released on Orange Mountain Music.

PHILIP GLASS ENSEMBLE / Reisman etc Philip Glass / Orion 2CD OMM0021
Philip Glass assembled a group of renowned composer/performers – Ravi Shankar, Nova Scotia fiddler Ashley MacIsaac and Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man among them - to collaborate with him on a remarkable 90-minute multi-cultural work. Taking its title and inspiration from the largest constellation in the night sky, Orion was commissioned for the 2004 Cultural Olympiad in Athens and reflects the international character of the Olympic movement