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Signal, Brad Lubman, Michael Riesman - Philip Glass: Glassworks; Music In Similar Motion - Live at (Le) Poisson Rouge (2011)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 5 Jan 2023 20:30:46

Signal, Brad Lubman, Michael Riesman - Philip Glass: Glassworks; Music In Similar Motion - Live at (Le) Poisson Rouge (2011)

30 years after Philip Glass’ debut record the new music ensemble Signal asked Philip Glass Ensemble music director Michael Riesman to arrange the classic album “Glassworks” for live performance. The concert took place at the New York venue, Poisson Lubman in April 2010. This CD features a new recording of the entire score, paired with a riveting performance of “Music in Similar Motion”.

WHEN Philip Glass was signed to CBS (now Sony Classical) in 1981, the label insisted on introducing him with “Glassworks,” a collection of short pieces: exactly the opposite of the large, slowly unfolding scores for which he was famous. To Mr. Glass’s fans both the label’s demand and the composer’s compliance seemed odd, although his film scores for “North Star” (1977) and “Koyaanisqatsi” (1982) suggested that he was not entirely averse to brevity. And “Glassworks” had a way of growing on you. Looking back, you can clearly see that it was cut from the same cloth as the more highly regarded “Koyaanisqatsi.”

Still, “Glassworks” was a footnote in Mr. Glass’s catalog until last year, when Brad Lubman and his enterprising new-music band, Signal, decided to revive it in anticipation of its 30th anniversary. Michael Riesman, Mr. Glass’s keyboardist and music director, produced a fresh orchestration, with lines originally played on electronic keyboards transferred to woodwinds and horns. When Signal performed the work in April at Le Poisson Rouge, Mr. Riesman played the central piano part. This CD was recorded at that concert.

In some ways the original studio recording is preferable. Mr. Glass and his ensemble took the pieces at tempos consistently brisker than Mr. Lubman’s, and the textures of the original are often more tactile and more finely balanced. What the Signal performance has going for it is the electricity and the give and take of a live performance. And if the slower tempos sacrifice something in mechanistic energy in fast movements like “Rubric,” they yield an attractive lyricism in the dreamier “Floe” and “Facades.”

Mr. Lubman and company also include a vigorous performance of “Music in Similar Motion” (1969), an intricate, mesmerizing work that makes “Glassworks” sound almost Neo-Romantic.

Review by Allan Kozinn, The New York Times

Philip Glass at Allmusic
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Signal
Brad Lubman, conductor
Michael Riesman, keyboards

Recorded live at (Le) Poisson Rouge April 12, 2010
Mastered at Downtown Music Studios, New York

Tracklist:

Glassworks:
01. Opening (06:30)
02. Floe (06:22)
03. Islands (08:43)
04. Rubric (06:23)
05. Facades (07:30)
06. Closing (06:20)

07. Music in Similar Motion (22:44)

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