Philip Glass

Philip Glass's String Quartet No. 4 was composed as part of the Memorial concert for the artist Brian Buczak. Commissioned by Geoffrey Hendricks, it received its first performance on 4 July 1989 at th...

Orbit is a work composed by acclaimed minimalist composer Philip Glass for Solo Cello. Orbit was commissioned by Damian Woetzel and premiered on the 2nd of April 2013, in a performance by cellist Yo-Y...

Facades was originally written in 1981 to accompany a scene in the cult film 'Koyaanishqatsi'. The scene, of New York's Wall Street on a Sunday morning, was eventually cut from the film, but the title...

In Again Out Again arranged for two pianos. Composed 1968, duration 1 minute.

Philip Glass 'Gradus' arranged for solo Soprano saxophone. Duration 9 minutes.

Three Choruses for Mixed Voices (S.A.T.B.) with texts by Carl Sandburg

American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated, influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist, though he prefers to call...

Another Look at Harmony Part 4 was written while Glass was working on Einstein on the Beach, and it is easy to hear similarities between the two works. In Harmony, the Voices use solfege and nonsense...

Minimalist work for Organ.

Morning Passages, by Philip Glass, from 'The Hours'. Arranged for piano solo in digital sheet music format.

The 'Low' Symphony, composed in the spring of 1992, is based on the record 'Low' by David Bowie and Brian Eno first released in 1977. The record consisted of a number of songs and instrumentals and us...

A choral work by Philip Glass from his opera Einstein On The Beach in Glass's trademark minimal style. The work is based upon overlapping repeating rhythmic motives, with 5 Knee Play pieces used to pu...

Philip Glass ' There Are Some Men for unaccompanied SATB choir with words by Leonard Cohen. Duration: approx. 3 minutes.

Philip Glass' There Are Some Men for unaccompanied SATB choir with words by Leonard Cohen. Duration: approx. 3 minutes.

The Trial is an opera by renowned composer Philip Glass, featuring a libretto by Christopher Hampton. The opera is based on Franz Kafka's classic surreal tale of a man arrested by an unknown authority...

A new vocal edition by Jon Bunker of Glass' 1984 opera.

This song for medium voice and piano was composed for Natalie Merchant was first performed with the composer at the piano at the 1997 Tibet House Benefit Concert and subsequently broadcast on the PBS...

Violin Solo Music from the opera 'Einstein On The Beach' by Philip Glass, transcribed for Solo Guitar by David Leisner.

The first performance of the Trilogy Sonata was given by the arranger and pianist Paul Barnes on 19 April 2001. The Sonata consists of transcriptions from the trilogy of 'portrait' operas by Philip Gl...

Paul Barnes presents a suite of seven Piano transcriptions derived from Philip Glass's 1991 opera Orphee. The suite was first performed in April 2001 at the Greenwich House Music School In New York Ci...

Three arrangements of piano pieces by Philip Glass for piano quintet. Reworked by Christian Badzura, recorded by V kingur Ólafsson and the Siggi String Quartet and released by Deutsche Grammophon on a...

Piano Sonata is Glass’ first sonata for piano, and at thirty minutes in length, his longest singular work for solo piano. The work was composed for pianist Maki Namekawa and premiered at the Klaiver F...