Concerto for Harpsichord & Orchestra (2002). Philip Glass /a fuller, more robust sound/

After yesterday's meh, things are picking up today, musically anyway...

Here's a YouTube of Christopher D. Lewis playing the Philip Glass Concerto for Harpsichord & Orchestra with Nicole Paiement conducting. I think the unusual timbre, for Glass music anyway, is refreshing.

The composer on the commission:

I found the invitation intriguing for several reasons. For one, I have always been an admirer of the literature for harpsichord, had studied some of the music from the Baroque period quite thoroughly, and have played a bit of that music myself. Secondly, I knew that the modern day harpsichord was capable of a fuller, more robust sound than was available in "period" instruments and might make a handsome partner to a modern chamber orchestra.

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best of today's listening:

• Christopher D. Lewis. Philip Glass. Concerto for Harpsichord & Orchestra.
• Dennis Russell Davis. Lou Harrison: Solstice/Canticle #3. A Summerfield Set for Solo Piano.
• Christopher O’Riley, Matt Haimovitz. Shuffle.Play.Listen. Pyramid Song.
• Arctic Monkeys. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not. A Certain Romance.
• Thelonious Monk. The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings. Abide with Me. 
• Rebecca Saunders. Musica Viva Festival 2008. Blue and Gray. Via composer Drew Baker.

links

• Music from the US - Philip Glass (xworldmusic.wordpress.com)
• Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No.1 (2001). Philip Glass /altogether more conventional/ (rgable.typepad.com)
• Music Review: Various Artists - The Essential Philip Glass (blogcritics.org)

Comments

[Antonia Thomasson]

Brilliant! I love this piece, nicely played. Was the third mvt recorded as well?

[vente lunettes de soleil]

Orchestre symphonique d'avoir l'accord tacite ou non profiter, nous aimons le seul orchestre symphonique