Symphony No. 8 (Glass)

Symphony No. 8 is a 2005 symphony by Philip Glass commissioned by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz. It was premiered on November 2, 2005 at Brooklyn Academy of Music by Bruckner Orchester Linz conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. The symphony is in three movements and features extended solo writing. Critic Allan Kozinn described the symphony's chromaticism as more extreme, more fluid, and its themes and textures as continually changing, morphing without repetition, and praised the symphony's "unpredictable orchestration", pointing out the "beautiful flute and harp variation in the melancholy second movement".^[1] Alex Ross remarked that "against all odds, this work succeeds in adding something certifiably new to the overstuffed annals of the classical symphony. (...) The musical material is cut from familiar fabric, but it’s striking that the composer forgoes the expected bustling conclusion and instead delves into a mood of deepening twilight and unending night."^[2]

Orchestration: 2 flutes (dbl. picc.), 2 cor anglais, 2 clarinets (E-flat & bass), 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets (2 in E-flat), 3 trombones (2+1 bass), tuba, timp, 4 percussion (harp + piano), strings.

References

↑ Allan Kozinn, "A First Hearing for a Glass Symphony," New York Times, November 4, 2005
↑ Alex Ross, The Endless Scroll, The New Yorker, November 5, 2007, http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2007/11/05/071105crmu_music_ross

External links

Philip Glass – Symphony No. 8

Philip Glass

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Operas	Einstein on the Beach Satyagraha The Photographer Akhnaten The Civil Wars The Juniper Tree The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1000 Airplanes on the Roof Hydrogen Jukebox The Voyage Monsters of Grace White Raven In the Penal Colony Galileo Galilei The Sound of a Voice Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox Kepler The Perfect American

Symphonies	Symphony No. 1 (Low) Symphony No. 2 Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 4 (Heroes) Symphony No. 5 (Choral) Symphony No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) Symphony No. 7 (A Toltec Symphony) Symphony No. 8 Symphony No. 9 Symphony No. 10

Concertos	Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tirol) Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) Harpsichord Concerto Violin Concerto (withdrawn) Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2 (American Four Seasons) Cello Concerto No. 1 Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra

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Symphonies by Philip Glass

No. 1 (Low) No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 (Heroes) No. 5 (Choral) No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) No. 7 (A Toltec Symphony) No. 8 No. 9 No. 10

List of compositions by Philip Glass

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