A Descent Into the Maelstrom - Philip Glass

10	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Orange Mountain
Release date : 14 August 2002
Number of discs : 1
EAN : 0801837000528
UPC : 801837000528

Contemporary (2), Classical (2), Electronica (1), Piano (1), Dreamy (1), Movie Music With Repetitive Structures (1), Soundtrack (1), Chillout (1), Philip Glass (1), Organic Ambient (1), Piano Ambient (1), Jazz (1), Dream (1), Film Music (1), Relax (1), Classic (1), Psychedelic (1), Glass (1), Soundtracks And Scores (1), 2002 (1)

Description

Album DescriptionIn continuing with their ongoing program of releasing vital recordings from the archive of Philip Glass recorded material, Orange Mountain Music is pleased to release "A Descent into the Maelström". In 1986 Mr. Glass was commissioned to create and bring a piece to the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Adelaide, Australia. He Album Description
In continuing with their ongoing program of releasing vital recordings from the archive of Philip Glass recorded material, Orange Mountain Music is pleased to release "A Descent into the Maelström". In 1986 Mr. Glass was commissioned to create and bring a piece to the Adelaide Festival of Arts in Adelaide, Australia. He chose to write a piece based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story "A Descent into the Maelström" and invited collaborators dancer/choreographer Molissa Fenley, set designer Eamon D'Arcy and theatre director Mathew McGuire to participate. They transformed Edgar Allan Poe's vertiginous short story of being swept into a huge and terrible whirlpool by a raging hurricane that "the oldest seaman in Norway never experienced" into a Musical/Dance/Theatre extravganza.

This compelling, propulsive piece of music premiered in March, 1986 at the Adelaide Festival of Arts and was only performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble during the week of the festival in Australia. Consequently, it has had very little exposure to Philip Glass' audience. In the spring of 1986 after the Ensemble returned to New York it was discovered that the 24 track live recordings that were made of the performances were distorted, noisy and mostly unusable. At that point PGE musical director, Michael Riesman, Kurt Munkacsi and the Ensemble members set about replacing their parts on the recording. The newly recorded tracks had to be kept in sync with the live recording because the resulting mix would be used for a television broadcast of the performances. The finished recording is a studio/live hybrid. It is very similar to the mix that was made in 1986 for the video, but we've remixed the material taking advantage of the digital recording technology that is available today! .

This little known recording of this powerful piece of classic Glass music was made when the Philip Glass Ensemble was at one of its peaks. It was also done in possibly one of the best settings for Philip Glass and his musicians- musical theatre. It will be available for shipping July 19th, 2002

Album Description
2002 release from Orange Mountain Music, a new record company created to serve the fans, aficionados & academics studying the music of Philip Glass. The idea for this label developed out of a project undertaken by Kurt Munkacsi, (producer of most of PG's recordings & head of Euphorbia productions) & Don Christensen to archive all the master recordings that Philip Glass has made. Over the last 30 some years Philip has produced hundreds of hours of recordings in the process of creating operas, film scores, musical theatre pieces & records. Glass has also recorded many performances of his solo, operatic, orchestral & small ensemble work. In the process of archiving all of these master recordings the label discovered a wealth of beautiful & unusual recordings & some very inspired performances, which they plan to bring to the public. 18 tracks.

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