Glass - Venezuelan Elegy
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Label: Orange Mountain Music
Cat No: OMM0142
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 20th December 2019
Contents
Works
Facades (arr. James Strauss for flute and strings)Glassworks 2
Metamorphosis II (arr. P Glass and James Strauss for flute, strings and harp)
Orphee: Suite (arr. James Strauss for flute, strings and percussion)
The Hours
Artists
James Strauss (flute)Camerata Simon Bolivar
Conductor
Alfonso Lopez Ch.Works
Facades (arr. James Strauss for flute and strings)Glassworks 2
Metamorphosis II (arr. P Glass and James Strauss for flute, strings and harp)
Orphee: Suite (arr. James Strauss for flute, strings and percussion)
The Hours
Artists
James Strauss (flute)Camerata Simon Bolivar
Conductor
Alfonso Lopez Ch.About
When meeting Strauss in 2011, Glass encouraged him to arrange his music for flute and chamber orchestra. Despite being a flautist by training, and playing flute himself until the age of 30, Glass has not written extensively for “his” instrument. For Strauss, this has always been a frustrating situation since he wanted to perform Glass’s music with orchestras. So Strauss set about arranging Glass’s music for flute an ensemble including two major works: a large suite from Glass’s opera Orphée, Glass’s Violin Concerto no.1, as well as selections from Metamorphosis, The Hours, and Glassworks.
Despite the title, Venezuelan Elegy is not a sombre album at all. It’s a boisterous celebration of music and life. Glass spent many summers in South America and not a year has gone by that he doesn’t visit. Starting in 2016, Strauss moved to Venezuela right at the time that political troubles were coming to a head. He had great collaborations with the young musicians who are still emerging from the El Sistema music programme there. With political conditions deteriorating, Strauss viewed this recording as a chance to get some money and work to these great musicians who found themselves in the middle of a collapse of the Venezuelan system.
The result is a beautiful album full of love, hope, and pathos. Performed by James Strauss and the Camerata Simon Bolivar under the direction of Alfonso Lopez Ch.
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