Glass, P.: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3

Featuring

Marin Alsop
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Philip Glass

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Composer Biography

Philip Glass studied with Nadia Boulanger, a renowned 20th-century teacher, but his musical direction was more profoundly shaped by transcribing Indian music for Ravi Shankar.

Recording & Production

This recording of Philip Glass's Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3 was made in The Concert Hall, Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, UK, in July 2003.

Performer Biography

Marin Alsop, the conductor, was a pupil of the legendary Leonard Bernstein, as well as Seiji Ozawa and Gustav Meier, at Tanglewood.

Compositional Technique

Philip Glass's Second Symphony explores polytonality, where music is in more than one key simultaneously, creating an ambiguous sound world akin to an Escher print.

Composer Biography

Philip Glass, the composer, first encountered music through his father, who worked as a radio repairman and record salesman.

Performer Biography

Marin Alsop, the conductor of this album, became the first woman to hold the title of Principal Conductor for any British symphony orchestra when she joined the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 2002.