Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective

Tracklist

• CD 1: Early Works
• 1
  Music in Contrary Motion
  15:33
• 2
  Music with Changing Parts (edited)
  45:39
• 3
  Music in Similar Motion
  17:11
• CD 2: From Music in Twelve Parts
• 1
  Music in Twelve Parts: Part VII
  19:57
• 2
  Music in Twelve Parts: Part VIII
  18:17
• 3
  Music in Twelve Parts: Part IX
  12:14
• 4
  Music in Twelve Parts: Part X
  17:11
• CD 3: From Einstein on the Beach
• 1
  Einstein on the Beach: Knee Play 1
  8:04
• 2
  Einstein on the Beach: Train 1 (edited)
  13:45
• 3
  Einstein on the Beach: Knee Play 2
  6:08
• 4
  Einstein on the Beach: Knee Play 3
  6:29
• 5
  Einstein on the Beach: Trial 2/Prison: "Prematurely Airconditioned Supermarket" (edited)
  12:20
• 6
  Einstein on the Beach: Knee Play 4
  7:06
• 7
  Einstein on the Beach: Bed/Prelude
  4:23
• 8
  Einstein on the Beach: Spaceship
  12:51
• 9
  Einstein on the Beach: Knee Play 5
  8:04
• CD 4: Glassworks / Analog
• 1
  Glassworks: I. Opening
  6:12
• 2
  Glassworks: V. Façades
  7:17
• 3
  Glassworks: II. Floe
  8:44
• 4
  Glassworks: VI. Closing
  5:16
• 5
  Étoile Polaire: Étoile Polaire
  2:38
• 6
  Étoile Polaire: River Run
  1:53
• 7
  Étoile Polaire: Are Years What? (for Marianne Moore)
  4:03
• 8
  Étoile Polaire: Ange des Orages
  3:47
• 9
  Étoile Polaire: Ave
  4:46
• 10
  Étoile Polaire: Montage
  2:28
• 11
  Dressed Like an Egg: Part IV
  3:12
• 12
  Dressed Like an Egg: Part V
  1:35
• 13
  Mad Rush for Organ
  16:13
• CD 5: From Satyagraha
• 1
  Satyagraha: Act I "Tolstoy", Scene 1: The Kuru Field of Justice
  18:46
• 2
  Satyagraha: Act I "Tolstoy", Scene 2: Tolstoy Farm (1910)
  11:03
• 3
  Satyagraha: Act II "Tagore", Scene 1: Confrontation and Rescue
  14:45
• 4
  Satyagraha: Act II "Tagore", Scene 3: Protest (1908)
  15:16
• 5
  Satyagraha: Act III "King", Scene 1: Newcastle March (1913) - Part 3: Evening Song
  8:22
• CD 6: From Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi
• 1
  Koyaanisqatsi: Koyaanisqatsi
  3:25
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Koyaanisqatsi: Organic
  7:46
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Koyaanisqatsi: Cloudscape
  4:32
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Koyaanisqatsi: Resource
  6:39
  4.0 ★
• 5
  Koyaanisqatsi: Vessels
  8:02
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Koyaanisqatsi: The Grid
  21:19
  5.0 ★
• 7
  Powaqqatsi: Serra Pelada
  5:04
• 8
  Powaqqatsi: Train to São Paulo
  3:05
• 9
  Powaqqatsi: Video Dream
  2:15
• 10
  Powaqqatsi: New Cities in Ancient Lands, China
  2:47
• 11
  Powaqqatsi: New Cities in Ancient Lands, Africa
  2:56
• 12
  Powaqqatsi: New Cities in Ancient Lands, India
  4:42
• 13
  Powaqqatsi: Mr Suso #2 With Reflection
  1:15
• 14
  Powaqqatsi: Powaqqatsi
  4:35
• CD 7: String Quartets and Piano Études
• 1
  String Quartet no. 2 "Company": I
  2:11
• 2
  String Quartet no. 2 "Company": II
  1:36
• 3
  String Quartet no. 2 "Company": III
  1:32
• 4
  String Quartet no. 2 "Company": IV
  2:07
• 5
  Étude for Piano no. 2
  4:52
• 6
  Étude for Piano no. 9
  3:35
• 7
  String Quartet no. 5: I
  1:10
• 8
  String Quartet no. 5: II
  2:59
• 9
  String Quartet no. 5: III
  5:28
• 10
  String Quartet no. 5: IV
  4:38
• 11
  String Quartet no. 5: V
  7:41
• 12
  Étude for Piano no. 5
  5:44
• 13
  Étude for Piano no. 3
  4:57
• 14
  String Quartet no. 4 "Buczak": I
  7:57
• 15
  String Quartet no. 4 "Buczak": II
  6:20
• 16
  String Quartet no. 4 "Buczak": III
  8:41
• CD 8: From The Civil warS, Hydrogen Jukebox, Symphony no. 5 and Akhnaten
• 1
  The Civil warS: a tree is best measured when it is down, Act V "The Rome Section": Prologue
  18:50
• 2
  Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #3: From "Iron Horse"
  2:53
• 3
  Hydrogen Jukebox : Song #2: "Jaweh and Allah Battle"
  3:39
• 4
  Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #11: From "The Green Automobile"
  6:03
• 5
  Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #9: From "Nagasaki Days (Numbers in Red Notebook)"
  0:40
• 6
  Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #10: "Aunt Rose"
  4:58
• 7
  Hydrogen Jukebox: Song #6: From "Wichita Vortex Sutra"
  7:47
• 8
  Symphony no. 5 "Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya": VII. Suffering (edited)
  5:03
• 9
  Akhnaten, Act I "Year 1 of Akhnaten's Reign - Thebes", Scene 1: Funeral of Amenhotep III
  9:02
• 10
  Akhnaten, Act I "Year 1 of Akhnaten's Reign - Thebes", Scene 3: The Window of Appearances (edited)
  4:24
• 11
  Akhnaten, Act III "Year 17 and the Present - Akhnaten" , Scene 4: Epilogue
  10:37
• CD 9: Symphonies nos. 3 & 8
• 1
  Symphony no. 3: Movement I
  4:37
• 2
  Symphony no. 3: Movement II
  6:15
• 3
  Symphony no. 3: Movement III
  10:06
• 4
  Symphony no. 3: Movement IV
  3:28
• 5
  Symphony no. 8: Movement I
  19:26
• 6
  Symphony no. 8: Movement II
  12:18
• 7
  Symphony no. 8: Movement III
  6:57
• CD 10: Filmworks
• 1
  Mishima: Opening
  2:46
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Mishima: November 25: Morning
  4:12
• 3
  Mishima: Closing
  2:59
  3.0 ★
• 4
  The Secret Agent: The First Meridian
  3:19
• 5
  The Secret Agent: Secret Agent
  4:51
• 6
  Kundun: Sand Mandala
  4:05
• 7
  Kundun: Distraught
  2:59
• 8
  Kundun: Lhasa at Night
  1:59
• 9
  Kundun: Escape to India
  10:07
• 10
  Anima Mundi: Living Waters
  3:52
• 11
  Anima Mundi: The Witness
  4:14
• 12
  La Belle et la Bête: Overture
  3:33
• 13
  The Thin Blue Line: Houston Skyline
  4:46
• 14
  Dracula: Dracula
  1:11
• 15
  Dracula: The Storm
  1:32
• 16
  Dracula: Dr. Van Helsing and Dracula
  2:26
• 17
  The Fog of War: The War to End All Wars
  1:46
• 18
  Candyman: It Was Always You, Helen
  3:11
• 19
  The Truman Show: Raising the Sail
  2:16
• 20
  The Hours: The Poet Acts
  3:42

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Release credits

• Albert de Ruiter
  bass vocals [1-2]
• Allen Ginsberg
  spoken vocals [2-3, 5, 7]
• American Composers Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1]
• Andrew Dudman
  assistant [20]
• Andrew Sterman
  bass clarinet [8]
• Art Murphy
  electric piano [2], electronic organ [3]
• Barbara Benary
  electric violin [2], vocal [2]
• Bruckner Orchester Linz
  performing orchestra [5-7]
• Carlos Albrecht
  engineer [9, 11]
• Chor der Staatsoper Stuttgart
  choir vocals [9-10]
• Chris Laurence
  double bass [20]
• Christopher Keene
  conductor [1-5]
• Dan Bora
  assistant [20]
• Dan Dryden
  mix [1-5], recording [1-5]
• Dennis Russell Davies
  conductor [8.1, 8.8-11, 9.1-7]
• Dickie Landry
  flute [4.5-6, 1.2], piccolo [2], soprano saxophone [1.2-3, 4.5-6], tenor saxophone [1.2, 4.5-6], vocal [2]
• Edmund Coxon
  violin [20]
• Elizabeth Futral
  soprano vocals [2-4, 6]
• Elsa Higby
  mezzo-soprano vocals [1, 3-9]
• Eric W. Lamp
  tenor vocals [1, 3-9]
• Gene Rickard
  lead vocals [5-6]
• Gregory Fulkerson
  violin [3, 6, 8-9]
• Gregory Purnhagen
  baritone vocals [8.2-4, 8.6, 3.1, 3.3-9]
• Hector Castillo
  mix [20]
• Jake Jackson
  assistant [20]
• Jamie Mereness
  engineer [1-6]
• Jeff Kensmoe
  baritone vocals [1, 3-9]
• Jeffrey Johnson
  tenor vocals [1, 3-9]
• Joan La Barbara
  lead vocals [5-6]
• Joe Lopes
  recording [1-5]
• Johannes Wohlleben
  engineer [9, 11]
• John Billingsley
  assistant [6-9]
• John Bradbury
  chorus master [20]
• John Koch
  tenor vocals [1, 3-9]
• Jon Gibson
  Hammond organ [2], flute [3.8, 1.2], soprano saxophone [2-3], vocal [2]
• Jonathan Allen
  recording [20]
• Katie Geissinger
  mezzo-soprano vocals [1, 3-9]
• Kristin Norderval
  soprano vocals [1, 3-9]
• Kronos Quartet
  performer [16], string quartet [1-4, 7-9, 9-11, 14-16]
• Kurt Munkacsi
  electronic instruments [2-3], engineer [2-3], mix [1-5], producer [5.1-5, 10.1, 10.3, 10.6-10, 10.19-20, 6.1-6, 8.9, 8.11]
• Lisa Bielawa
  soprano vocals [1, 3-9]
• Margo Gezairlian Grib
  mezzo-soprano vocals [1, 3-9]
• Mario J. McNulty
  assistant [20]
• Marion Beckenstein
  soprano vocals [1, 3-9]
• Martin Czembor
  engineer [10.6-9, 6.1-6]
• Martin Goldray
  conductor [2-7]
• Martin Wieland
  engineer [9, 11]
• Mary Ann Hart
  mezzo-soprano vocals [2-4, 6]
• Melinda Liebermann
  soprano vocals [11]
• Michael Riesman
  conductor [10.1, 10.3, 10.6-10, 2.1-4, 6.1-6], keyboard [1, 5, 8-9], mix [1-5], piano [20], producer [8.9-11, 10.20, 5.1-5]
• Michele Eaton
  soprano vocals [3.1, 3.3-9, 8.2-4, 8.6]
• Milagro Vargas
  alto vocals [11], soprano vocals [10]
• Nathaniel Watson
  baritone vocals [2-4]
• New York City Opera Chorus
  choir vocals [1-5]
• New York City Opera Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1-5]
• Nick Barr
  viola [20]
• Nick Ingman
  conductor [20]
• Nico Muhly
  piano [20]
• Paul Esswood
  countertenor vocals [10-11], tenor vocals [10]
• Peter Stewart
  baritone vocals [1, 3-9]
• Philip Glass
  composer, alto flute [2], electric piano [5-6], electronic organ [1, 3], organ [4.5-6, 1.1-2], piano [5-6, 12-13], synthesizer [5-6]
• Philip Glass Ensemble
  instrument [2-7], performing orchestra [6.1-6, 3.1, 3.3-9, 2.1-4]
• Richard Fracker
  tenor vocals [2-4, 6]
• Richard Peck
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Robert Prado
  flute [2-3], trumpet [2], vocal [2]
• Roland Rublé
  engineer [1-4]
• Rolf Wilson
  violin [20]
• Staatsorchester Stuttgart
  performing orchestra [9-11]
• Steve Chambers
  electronic organ [3], organ [2]
• Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
  performing orchestra [1-4]
• The Lyric Quartet
  strings [20]
• Western Wind
  choir vocals [5-6]
• 畑亮次
  assistant [6.1-6, 10.6-9]
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  Glass Box: A Nonesuch Retrospective

  10x CD
  2008