Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
29	30	1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31	1	2

Philip Glass - Symphony No.9 (Perfomed Bruckner Orchester Linz, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies) (2012)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 15 Feb 2015 17:04:35

Symphony No. 9 is Philip Glass' ninth symphony. It was written between 2010 and 2011. It is written in 3 movements. It was commissioned by the Bruckner Orchester Linz, Carnegie Hall, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association.

It is perhaps a generalization, but it could be reasonably argued that apart from the music written for his own ensemble, Philip Glass' work tends to be strongest when it is written to accompany a dramatic action. His trilogy of portrait operas (Einstein on the Beach, Satyagraha, and Akhnaten), his film scores (Koyaanisqatsi [and its sequels], The Thin Blue Line, Kundun, The Hours), and his operas based on Cocteau films (La Belle et la Bête, Orphée) are certainly among his most imaginative and memorable pieces. In 1995 Glass was quoted as saying "In almost all of the non-theatrical works, if you examine them, you'll find there's actually a subtext which is theatrical." Nonetheless, his "absolute music" – pieces in traditional Western classical forms like string quartets and symphonies – only infrequently has the internal logic, momentum and originality of his explicitly dramatic music, and that is true of his Symphony No. 9, written in 2011. This exemplary, committed performance by Dennis Russell Davies and the Bruckner Orchester Linz, taken from its world premiere on January 1, 2012, makes as strong a case as possible for the work. Essentially, the symphony sounds like the recycling of ideas very similar to those of earlier works. It is most interesting in its often startling juxtapositions of contrasting moods and in its harmonic structure, which is freer than is sometimes the case with Glass' work. There are many attractive moments, such as the lovely opening of the second movement, and there are powerful sections that generate propulsive excitement, as the middle parts of the first and second movements do. The whole fails to cohere, though. It's perhaps best appreciated when the designation of symphony (and all that that implies) is set aside and the focus is on the persuasiveness of individual moments. The piece should be of strong interest to fans of the composer's, but it is unlikely to make new converts. Orange Mountain Music's sound is clean, detailed, and vibrantly present.

Review by Stephen Eddins, Allmusic.com

Philip Glass Biography
Philip Glass Website
Philip Glass at Wiki

Tracklist:

01. Movement I (14:18)
02. Movement II (20:05)
03. Movement III (15:30)

EAC log

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 22. May 2012, 18:57

Philip Glass / Symphony no. 9

Used drive : HL-DT-STDVDRAM GE20LU10 Adapter: 2 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 667
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files (x86)\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 14:18.08 | 0 | 64357
2 | 14:18.08 | 20:05.54 | 64358 | 154786
3 | 34:23.62 | 15:30.26 | 154787 | 224562

Track 1

Filename F:\EACrips\Philip Glass-Symphony no. 9 (FLAC-EAC)\Philip Glass-Symphony no. 9-01-Movement I.wav

Pre-gap length 0:00:02.00

Peak level 95.5 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 5A74BC9C
Copy CRC 5A74BC9C
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 2

Filename F:\EACrips\Philip Glass-Symphony no. 9 (FLAC-EAC)\Philip Glass-Symphony no. 9-02-Movement II.wav

Peak level 95.8 %
Track quality 99.9 %
Test CRC 5C054E29
Copy CRC 5C054E29
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

Track 3

Filename F:\EACrips\Philip Glass-Symphony no. 9 (FLAC-EAC)\Philip Glass-Symphony no. 9-03-Movement III.wav

Peak level 95.5 %
Track quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 03C9B3B6
Copy CRC 03C9B3B6
Track not present in AccurateRip database
Copy OK

None of the tracks are present in the AccurateRip database

No errors occurred

End of status report

DR log

foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2015-02-15 18:20:10

––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
Analyzed: Philip Glass / Symphony no. 9
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

DR Peak RMS Duration Track
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
DR13 -0.39 dB -18.75 dB 14:18 01-Movement I
DR12 -0.37 dB -17.48 dB 20:06 02-Movement II
DR12 -0.40 dB -17.47 dB 15:30 03-Movement III
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––

Number of tracks: 3
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 586 kbps
Codec: FLAC
================================================================================

All thanks to original releaser - Poincare

More interesting music in My Blog

Philip Glass - Voices for Didg... & Michael Riesman) (2013)

Philip Glass - Visitors: Original Film Soundtrack (2013)

Philip Glass - Symphony No.1 &...id Bowie and Brian Eno) (2014)

Philip Glass - Symphony No.4 &...id Bowie and Brian Eno) (2014)