The Essential Philip Glass

Features too many songs from Liquid Days album and still manages to leave off Freezing, which was a single and played on Radio 2 at the time of its release so the closest Philip has come to a hit single!If you only know the film scores than this is good primer for future exploration. Good selection from 'The Trilogy' operas. I'd also recommend 'solo piano'.

Ideal for your mp3 player/Walkman the triple cd collection provides a wealth of tracks to sample the works of Philip Glass at leisure, from orchestral to opera, the music provides a great perspective of his works.Certainly worth the money and providing easy listening and an introduction to Glass's opus.

Good CD to start with if you want to hear Mr Glass and where he's coming from - good mixture of his work.

Excellent item delivered on time

Good

good overall view of his work

If you like formal classical vocal material, then CD3 and other parts of the collection will be for you. Personally, the clipped warbling of (OK, highly trained) classical singers drives me absolutely nuts. So the temptation has been to bin CD3 for that reason. I know many classical fans will rear up in indignation at such a phillistine point of view, but hey, you can walk away form this review! The other 2 CDs have some interesting material in them, sometimes reminding me of Penguin Cafe, amidst the familiar avant garde presentation of Philip Glass. Over-all, worth listening through in order to select pieces for your own compilation or play-list.

Here for once is something that's exactly what it says on the packet - essential!Everything you could possibly need.

good and awesome

this... is.. a magnificent and superb collection of music by one of the most important composer of our time... phillip glass.such great depth of feeling: it would be time hard spent, trying to find a soprano saxophone score of such supreme beauty as 'facades' song two; soprano performed magnificently by jon gibson who along with the superb phillip glass ensemble, breathe life into this masterpiece work from 1982 release, "glassworks".found on this release are compositions of profound beauty: for example; an introspective acoustic piano 'metamorphosis four' from "phillip glass: solo piano" to complex fast moving orchestra scores found on "naqoyqatsi" such as 'primacy of numbers' with yo yo ma and members of the phillip glass ensemble, this 3 cd release of 31 pieces is nothing less than a treasure on a grande scale.the operas... every time i hear douglas perry's pure tenor voice, such as on 'kuru field of justice' {what a remarkably moving piece of music} from "satyagraha" or i hear paul esswood sing 'hymn to the sun' from "akhnaten"; i am moved deeply... .. very much so.yes, it is true, many of the opera pieces on disc 3 from this release, are also on the cd "phillip glass: songs from the trilogy" but, who cares... it is still wonderful to have all the great pieces together as one collection. this, i believe, to be one of the most worthy collections of music to have in one's possession; in this lifetime, anyway.

Perfect condition, like new!

Excellent overview of his works. J.

Je ne sais pas qui est à l'origine de la sélection, mais pourquoi n'avoir mis que les oeuvres les plus commerciales et souvent les plus...pompeuses! Où sont passées les compositions "répétitives" qui ont fait connaître Glass (dans la foulée de Terry Riley)Pour ma part j'ai été déçu, certes ce n'est pas un mauvais coffret en soi, mais je m'attendais à autre chose.