Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by/ Orquesta Sinfónica de Bournemouth dirigida por Marin Alsop.
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Philip Glass is generally viewed as America’s most popular composer nowadays. His output consist on various works pertaining to minimalism, more than a dozen operas, eleven symphonies, several concertos, oratorios, film scores and minor orchestral works. His Second Symphony is his first purely abstract piece in the field. It deals with polytonality and rhythm patterns.
Philip Glass es considerado el compositor más popular de EUA de hoy en día. Su obra consiste en varias piezas minimalistas, más de una docena de óperas, once sinfonías, varios conciertos, oratorios, música para películas y obras orquestales menores. Su Segunda Sinfonía fue en realidad su primera obra abstracta en la materia, tratando con la politonalidad y los patrones rítmicos.
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Image/ imagen: Los Angeles at Night / Los Ángeles por la noche. Thomas Kolendra. 2012.
This makes for great background music while reading King Lear.
How fitting! He made some incidental chamber music to go with a modern production of King Lear very recently, which he then arranged into his most recent string quartet. I believe his 9th.
@@violinsinthevoid4579 Thanks for taking my comment and really enriching it. I don't know Glass' range of work with much depth. This was the very first piece of his I was ever introduced to a decade ago or more and I've come back to it since often.
It’s a grand lulllaby, too!!!
Favorite Glass Symphony.
I think I agree. But I do like the Bowie/eno symphonies, and I own another, but I honestly forget which, and I'm too tired to go hunting for it in this disorganised clutter. (Chuckles to self)
Broodingly introspective with sweeping vistas. Classic Glass all the way.
I am still hearing on and on this fruit from this genius of our age.
Just love the first movement of this symphony.....the rest is really good as well. Probably my favourite Glass work.
Movement 1 really feels, well, self reflecting or reflecting back on humanity as a whole, kinda matches the background image pf this video. How we've reached this far, how we've come to this stakes, just a self reflection of all that.
This is just fantastic. This is just fantastic. This is just fantastic. This is just fantastic. This is just fantastic. This is just fantastic. etc.
this piece is a bit harder to digest than a lot of Glass' works, but I think that's a good thing... it took me a couple listens to really enjoy the complexity of the harmonies... there are some amazing melodic/harmonic combinations as well
melody is so lovely. stunning
The intensity leaves me breathless.
ooer...
Lonely & gorgeous! Bravo and thanks for posting this 💚
Chromatic mediants, slowly rising and descending chromatic scales, omnipresent ostinati, very active tuba and bassoons, leanly-orchestrated melodic lines, even the percussion touches... Philipp Glass sure must have liked the 1989 Batman score.... it sounds like Herrmann because it sounds like Elfman
I agree, there is a Hermannesque quality that makes this sound cinematic. Epic.
The polytonality allows a distinct experience with each hearing. One enjoys a different experience with each hearing. Symphony 2 is intelligently wrought and pretty.
super!
Amazing.
And this modern day Musical Genius keeps 'pumpin them out' & surprising us w/ more audio masterpieces we could only begin to hear in our thoughts!
Vraiment superbe !
truly spellbinding, exhilarating
Je découvre, après celle-ci je vais écouter les autres.
Many of you compare Glass and Bruckner. This is not wrong, but in the first and second movements there are also obvious reminiscences of Shostakovich (especially the 10th symphony) !
Great to read mention of those two composers. I admire both!!
I remember reading that Glass sees Shostakovich as a major inspiration, giving the example of Shostakovich's piano quintet as an example of his genius.
TY for making that comparison.
I feel like this symphony, number 3, and number 8 are among the greatest symphonies I've ever heard. For me, the symphonies are a bit hit and miss, but when Glass has come upon a beautiful Musical idea, he seems to know exactly what to do to exploit it to the maximum.
This picture is the acme of night scenery
Hermosa sinfonía. Muchas gracias por compartirla desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Classical music for the modern world. It was also composed the same year I was born.
nice
I can never decide if Brucker and Glass have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or if I have Attention Deficit Disorder.
BOTH ,just accept it as fact without scientific proof... You will always be better off musically ...
Clearly both or neither! :-)
does it really matter?
@@Aa_Sha Does what really matter ?
@@guidepost42 diagnosis
You are right. But. All Glass's symphonies are Great. The Apex of His Symphonism is 9 SYMPHONY, 11,12 symphonies. Also great, chamber 14 Symphony. A can't wait for 15 Sympony by Him.
Tuve un sueño
The movie Thelma brings here....and i hear. Bernhard hermann.... Vertigo...in some parts ....since i heard opening by mr.glass....i like her Music....masterpiece....in all way.....thank you
In my mind it is a sombre reflection on a WWII bombing raid
possibly because the music is very similar to the theme tune to 'World at War'
I used to love this work. Now that the serialists have captured my imagination this no longer works for me. Of the composers that made an unabashed return to more traditional composition Glass will have a long afterlife.
The piece is fantastic as a whole, but the second movement is particularly trenchant.
Completely agree, the first movement gets you in, but man, that second movement!
m fave.
A symphony noir.
Desconocido músico
My god! Is that a tune?
0:01-43:01 When a museum exhibit meets a carnival meets a circus
I definitely prefer the VSO version of this.
Bruckner had OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and sometimes it shows in his music. Philip Glass has OCD in spades.
Great piece, but a lot of quotations from his violin concerto.
I will find soon the Violin Concerto. Thank yiou.
Glass has never made a secret of the fact that he is constantly re-working similar ideas in different ways depending his current set of commissions or projects. You mention his violin concerto, the "quotations" are from every Glass piece ever written.
Thelma brought me here..😬 (theatre scene)😏
While I always like the sound of a Glass composition, I have to admit that it's not long til it starts sounding all the same. The first movement, for instance, sounds a lot like one of the pieces form _Glassworks_.
He's just reworking material. Close listening would reveal similar revelation for IVES, for instance, among others.
seraph127 For sure there is a great uniformity in Glass works and this sense of repetitiveness is definitively there. However, for me Glass works are like meditation. There is a uniform underlying current in each session, but everyone is still different and will regularly dive into deep, if not even vertiginous, psychological, spiritual and dramatic expansive depths. 🎶 ☀️ 🌼 🚿 🎶
yes he copies himself with every note
Moving. Maybe Glass had just seen "Vertigo" and he just couldn't get the overwhelming beauty of the section, "Farewell and the Tower" out of his mind....?
TROMA
We used to have great composers once. The golden period of music began about the time of Monteverdi and ended in 1992, when Olivier Messiaen died. Now we have people like Glass on the one hand, totally incomprehensible music on the other.
When I met Glass's music I stopped listen to Monteverdi and Messiaen
I wish someone would rap over these sonics.
Oh, God, no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nicht von dieser Welt dont say that, there is a few really great artists doing rap music. But i agree, please never make rap with this.
I love the idea. There was a great slo-mo video created of Soul Train dancers moving to one of his compositions. Unfortunately it was taken down and has disappeared
@@darrenlyle8518 I saw the video. I love the video. Most nights I retire listening to this symphony. When GLASS's mortal coil is broken a segment of the cognoscenti will cry throughout the day.
@Geoff G For your ears only I might attempt it.
if you write Grammarly will be likely to inhibit your creativity..
I think the opposite is true.
@@ethanhill9460 well go ahead and be creative..
@@davidjames9626 I is opposite the think true.
@@ethanhill9460 an over simplification..we could have a more detailed discussion but I don't have the time this morning..if you would like to continue we can..
@@ethanhill9460 I think you need to broaden your reading , if you look at writers like, for example, James Joyce or Beckett and many others, you will see the need for a less restricted mode of grammar and sentence construction than those used by so-called Grammarly..
So Philip Glass is America's greatest composer and Jean-Michel Basquiat is America's greatest painter. I guess that makes Donald Trump America's greatest president. So let it be written!
Ugh.
0 for 3 thats a whiff sit down and enjoy the music
I suppose you support playing football during the pandemic.
This wunderkind will be forgotten in 20 years. What counts is substance, not effect
@@michaelfischer5800 How right you are!
I was born in the wrong generation...