{"product_id":"708350","title":"Bournemouth Soalsop - Glass: Heroes Symphony, The Light [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Glass (b. 1937)  Heroes Symphony • The Light  Although he remains best known for the works written for his  own ensemble (above all, Music in Twelve Parts of 1974) and works for  the stage, not least the trilogy of operas written in collaboration with Robert  Wilson, Einstein on the Beach (1975), Satyagraha (1980) and Akhnaten (1984), orchestral music has been at the forefront of activities for Philip  Glass for much of the last two decades. Already in 1987 his Violin Concerto [Naxos 8.554568] gave notice of a new interest in the forms  and procedures of the Classical and Romantic eras, an interest that has led to  eight symphonies and a number of independent orchestral works.The symphonies evince a wide range of approaches to the  genre. Only two (Nos. 2 and 8) are full-length abstract designs. No.  3 is a compact work for string orchestra [Naxos  8.559202, Symphonies Nos. 2 and 3], No. 6 a setting of  Allan Ginsberg's Plutonium Ode, while Nos. 5 and 7 are  large-scale choral works, symphonic in designation only. Nos. 1 and 4,  though multi-movement orchestral works, are distinguished by having drawn their  inspiration from decidedly non-Classical sources.In 1993, Glass completed his Low Symphony, a work  taking inspiration from the Low album released by David Bowie in 1977.  Among the most prolific and influential of rock musicians, Bowie had  established an international reputation with such albums as The Rise and  Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), Aladdin Sane (1973)  and Station to Station (1976), enhancing the individuality of his music  with often elaborate stage-shows where he appeared as the character central to  each album. After an exhausting 1976 world tour, Bowie decided on a radical change of approach  to making music. Relocating to West Berlin, in  the then divided city, he began a collaboration with Brian Eno that changed  rock music as decisively as any other development in what was a radical and  innovative era for the medium.A former member of rock band Roxy Music, Eno had gone to  make a series of solo albums, but was then about to devote himself to the  possibilities of synthesizer technology in what became known as 'ambient  composition': abstract and often understated electronic music intended to  create an environment for listening rather than being the focus of attention as  such. Beginning with Low, an album of powerful songs and evocative  instrumental pieces, he and Bowie went on to create  two further albums in Heroes (1977) and Lodger (1979), each  drawing inspiration from the segregated city, with its tangible resonance of  the 'cold war' era, that was then Berlin.Having selected several tracks from Low to create his Low Symphony, Glass did the same for Heroes in his Heroes  Symphony of 1996. The immediate incentive came from American choreographer  Twyla Tharp, keen for a work for her new dance company. Glass took six of the  ten tracks from Heroes, reworking them so that the\u003cp\u003eThe Light - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHeroes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbdulmajid\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSense Of Doubt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSons Of The Silent Age\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeukoln\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV2 Schneider\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55156461666689,"sku":"708350","price":14.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/41TFQI17ltL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767933791","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/708350","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}