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Philip Glass - The Concerto Project Vol. III: Concerto Grosso & Concerto for Saxophone Quartet (2008)

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Date: 27 Jan 2023 11:04:47

Philip Glass - The Concerto Project Vol. III: Concerto Grosso & Concerto for Saxophone Quartet (2008)
Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Dennis Russell Davies, conductor; Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
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Classical, Minimalism | Label: Orange Mountain Music | # 0042 | Time: 00:42:30

'The Concerto Project Vol. III' is the penultimate release in a series of four albums to be issued by Orange Mountain Music documenting the eight Philip Glass concertos to date. Volume III includes Glass's 'Concerto Grosso' commissioned by the City of Bonn for the opening of the Stadtische Kunstmuseum in the German city in 1992. Each movement of the Concerto Grosso is written for a distinctive group of instruments - the winds, brass and strings, which together make up a symphonic ensemble. In this live 1993 recording it is played by the Beethoven Orchester Bonn conducted by long-time Glass associate Dennis Russell Davies, the musicians who premiered the work - under its original title of Concerto for Three Ensembles - in June 1992.

The second concerto is Glass's 'Concerto for Saxophone Quartet', performed by its dedicatees, the internationally renowned Raschèr Saxophone Quartet who premiered the piece at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival in 1995. Glass conceived the work as both a concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Orchestra and in the version sans orchestra which is heard on the current recording. Though the orchestral version was performed first (and is one of Glass's most widely performed orchestral works), it's the quartet version which has been heard far more frequently - well over 100 times - and was the first to be composed. The work has four movements (slow-fast-slow-fast), each featuring a different member of the quartet.

'The Concerto Project Vol I' paired the Concerto Fantasy for two timpanists and orchestra (one of whom was Evelyn Glennie) and Cello Concerto (played by Julian Lloyd Webber) while his Piano Concerto No 2 and Harpsichord Concerto can be heard on 'The Concerto Project Vol II'.

The two works on Philip Glass: The Concerto Project, Vol. 3, really only qualify for inclusion in the series by virtue of their names, since neither sounds like a conventional concerto; the Concerto Grosso sounds simply like an orchestral piece, and the version of the Concerto for Saxophone Quartet recorded here is scored only for the quartet, without orchestral accompaniment.

The works, from the 1990s, are recognizably by Glass, but move in some directions that are less typical of his signature style of the late twentieth century. The dark-hued Concerto Grosso uses more dissonance than is usual in his work of that period in its first movement, and its middle movement is throbbingly Romantic. While each of the movements of the Concerto Grosso is monothematic and remains in the same key, the Concerto for Saxophone Quartet is altogether more mercurial, with shifting moods within the movements. It's also more contrapuntally conceived than much of Glass' music, and the independence of its lines sometimes leads it into surprising dissonance. Its jumpy second and fourth movements are especially playfully unpredictable and attractive, and the third movement, while more typically homophonic, is sweetly languid. The piece is a significant addition to the saxophone quartet repertoire for the ensembles with the chops to pull it off. The Raschèr Saxophone Quartet plays with consummate smoothness, finesse, and a creamy blend. Dennis Russell Davies leads Beethoven Orchester Bonn in a sober reading of the Concerto Grosso. The sound is clean and vibrant.

Review by Stephen Eddins, Allmusic.com

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Tracklist:

Concerto Grosso
01. Movement I (05:41)
02. Movement II (08:15)
03. Movement III (05:03)
- Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Dennis Russell Davies, conductor

Concerto for Saxophone Quartet
04. Movement I (06:22)
05. Movement II (04:52)
06. Movement III (08:23)
07. Movement IV (03:51)
- Raschèr Saxophone Quartet

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