Glass: Symphony No 9 – review

Bruckner O Linz/Davies(Orange Mountain Music)Philip Glass isn't the kind of composer to be daunted by the traditional curse of writing a ninth symphony. In fact, he has already completed a 10th, which will be premiered in August. Even so, Glass's whole symphonic output seems to have accumulated almost by stealth, and has never attracted the kind of attention focused on his operas and film scores. Some of the earlier symphonies have had vocal elements; others have followed an extra-musical progr...

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