Search - Philip Glass, Paul Barnes, Brooklyn Rider :: Philip Glass: Annunciation

On this new recording from Orange Mountain Music, pianist Paul Barnes and renowned string quartet Brooklyn Rider collaborate on a new album of music by Philip Glass including two world premiere recordings of major works.   The album begins with Philip Glass s 2018 Piano Quintet  Annunciation based on the  Hymn of the Annunciation from the Greek Orthodox tradition.  The other major work receiving a premiere recording is Glass s 2018 String Quartet No.8.  The album is rounded out with shorter pieces   Pendulum (2010) for violin and piano and Glass s 2017  Quartet Satz, an homage to Schubert s Quartettsatz.   The album closes with an a cappella version of the Greek Annunciation theme sung by Paul Barnes. Both champions of the music of Philip Glass, Brooklyn Rider has recorded Glass's String Quartets Nos. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and now 8 as well as the Suite form Bent. An early artist in the OMM catalogue, Paul Barnes scored an early success with his album of transcriptions from Glass's operas on The Orphee Suite. This was followed with The American Virtuoso, recordings of Glass's Second Piano Concerto, and an album New Generations including Glass piano etudes and the piano world Dreaming Awake. The album includes a bonus track of Paul Barnes singing the Communion Hymn for the Annunciation, the melody on which the Glass Piano Quintet is based.