{"product_id":"philip-glass-the-essential-vinyl","title":"Glass, Philip - The Essential (Boxset 4LP Vinyl) (Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilip Glass - The Essential (Boxset 4LP Vinyl)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough his operas, his symphonies, his compositions for his own ensemble, and his wide-ranging collaborations with artists ranging from Twyla Tharp to Allen Ginsberg, Woody Allen to David Bowie, Philip Glass has had an extraordinary and unprecedented impact upon the musical and intellectual life of his times. The operas - ''Einstein on the Beach,'' ''Satyagraha,'' and ''Akhnaten,'' among many others - play throughout the world's leading houses, and rarely to an empty seat. Glass has written music for experimental theater and for Academy Award-winning motion pictures. Glass is the first composer to win a wide, multi-generational audience in the opera house, the concert hall, the dance world, in film and in popular music - simultaneously. Much of his early work was based on the extended reiteration of brief, elegant melodic fragments that wove in and out of an aural tapestry. Or, to put it another way, it immersed a listener in a sort of sonic weather that twists, turns, surrounds, develops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the past 25 years, Glass has composed more than twenty-five operas, large and small; twelve symphonies; three piano concertos and concertos for violin, piano, timpani, and saxophone quartet and orchestra; soundtracks to films ranging from new scores for the stylized classics of Jean Cocteau to Errol Morris's documentary about former defense secretary Robert McNamara; string quartets; a growing body of work for solo piano and organ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e* 180 gram audiophile vinyl\u003cbr\u003e* Deluxe Lift-off Box Set with blue foil embossing\u003cbr\u003e* Includes 4 printed innersleeves, an 8-page booklet + glossy picture\u003cbr\u003e* Hype-sticker\u003cbr\u003e* Includes booklet with info on the Philip Glass series on Music On Vinyl, coming in 2020 \/ 2021\u003cbr\u003e* The best \/ most memorable selections from Naqoyqatsi, Einstein On The Beach, Satyagraha, Akhnaten, In the Upper Room, Songs from Liquid Days, The Photographer, Glassworks, Itaipu and more\u003cbr\u003e* Collaborations with Suzanne Vega, Linda Ronstadt, the Kronos Quartet and Yo-Yo Ma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLP1:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLightning (Songs from Liquid Days)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFacades (Glassworks)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Gentleman's Honor (The Photographer)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrimacy of Number (Naqoyqatsi)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMetamorphosis IV (Liquid Days, Part II)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpen The Kingdom (Liquid Days, Part II)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDance II (In The Upper Room)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDance VIII (In The Upper Room)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLP2\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlasspiece #1 (Rubric From Glassworks)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChanging Opinion (Songs From Liquid Days)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpening (Glassworks)\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFloe (Glassworks)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFuneral Of Amenhotep III (Akhnaten)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoint Blank (Naqoyqatsi)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLP3:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWichita Vortex Sutra\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForgetting (Songs From Liquid Days)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDance Ix (In The Upper Room)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dam (Itaipú)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDefinition (Naqoyqatsi)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProtest (Satyagraha)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvening Song (Satyagraha)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLP4:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHymn To The Sun (Akhnaten)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTrial - Prison (Einstein On The Beach)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAkhnaten And Nefertiti (Akhnaten)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKuru Field Of Justice (Satyagraha)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnee Play 1 (Einstein On The Beach)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTolstoy Farm (From Satyagraha)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWindow Of Appearances (From Akhnaten)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBed (From Einstein On The Beach)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEpilogue (From Akhnaten)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKnee Play 5 (From Einstein On The Beach)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Philip Glass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57282684223820,"sku":"VY13624","price":19.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7790\/1132\/files\/glass.jpg?v=1776147294","url":"https:\/\/spinvinyls.shop\/products\/philip-glass-the-essential-vinyl","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}