Since you are interested in Book Of Longing: A Song Cycle based on the Poetry and Images of Leonard Cohen, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
Leonard Cohen
Old Ideas (Gold Series) [ Columbia Records / CD - released 30/Jan/2012 ] Lauded poet Leonard Cohen's first studio album in eight years is the latest in an esteemed career spanning six decades. The ten songs on 'Old Ideas' poetically address some of the most profound quandaries of human existence - the relationship to a... |
Leonard Cohen
Ten New Songs [ Columbia / CD - released 17/Oct/2001 ] Cohen's first studio release for nine years is as brilliant and poetic as ever. |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass Cuts (Philip Glass Remixed) Luciano Supervielle / Dave Wesley / Dietrich Schoenemann / Sebastian Escofet / Androoval / Taylor Deupree / etc [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] It has been said that Philip Glass is the 'Godfather of Trance' and evidence of that is found in the remixes that a number of young producers / musicians began sending to Orange Mountain Music as early as 2002. |
PHILIP GLASS
Orion Philip Glass Ensemble with Mark Atkins (didgeridoo), Wu Man (pipa), Foday Musa Suso (kora), UAKTI (multi-instrumentalists) etc [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] Orion, a new concert work for the Philip Glass Ensemble and world musicians, was commissioned by the Cultural Olympiad 2001-2004 and premiered in Athens in June 2004, preceding the Olympic Games. |
PHILIP GLASS
Alter Ego Performs Philip Glass Alter Ego [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] Alter Ego, a group from Italy, here performs a group of early Glass works and generally tries to evoke the heady days when minimalism first came on the scene in New York. If anything, the group exceeds the hypnotic, mechanical yet relaxed precision... |
PHILIP GLASS
Music from 'The Hours' Michael Riesman (solo piano) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] Philip Glass' score for Stephen Daldry's film "The Hours" contains some of the most emotional, lyrical and haunting music Glass has produced. |
PHILIP GLASS
Les Enfants Terribles [Children of the Game] Philip Glass Ensemble / Michael Riesman [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau's novel (written in 1929 and was later made into both a play and a film) forms the basis of the third installment of the trilogy of music/theater works of Philip Glass. |
PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No 8 Bruckner Orchester Linz / Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "(Symphony no. 8) is about continuous change...the chromaticism that has crept into Mr. Glass' music since 'Koyaanisqatsi' is now more extreme, and more fluid. Indeed, the great attraction of the work is the unpredictable orchestration." (New York... |
PHILIP GLASS
The Concerto Project Volume II: Piano Concerto No. 2 After Lewis and Clark / Concerto for Harpsichord and Orchestra Paul Barnes (piano) Jillon Stoppels Dupree (harpsichord) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 10/Mar/2008 ] "Glass does understand how to score for the harpsichord, giving the soloist plenty of trills and other effects that demonstrate its melodic as well as percussive possibilities..." (Seattle Times) |
WILFRED OWEN / SIEGFRIED SASSOON / THOMAS HARDY / WALT WHITMAN / BRUCE DAWE / etc
War Poetry Peter Cundall (narrator) [ ABC Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] An iconic Australian unleashes the raw emotion of the world's greatest war poetry. Australia's beloved gardener shows a very different side as he reads anti-war poetry. With orchestral music accompanying the readings, this is a rare insight into... |
PHILIP GLASS
Analog: etoile Polaire, Dressed Like and Egg, Mad Rush Philip Glass (electric organ) [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 1/Nov/2006 ] Analog contains three seminal works in Glass's musical history. |
PHILIP GLASS
The Voyage (complete opera) Soloists / Landestheater Linz / Bruckner Orchester Linz / Dennis Russell Davies [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 12/Oct/2006 ] "The Voyage combines the eccentricity of 'Einstein on the Beach' and the monumentality of 'Satyagraha'." (New York Times) |
PHILIP GLASS
Aguas da Amazonia Uakti / Marco Antonio Guimares [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] Philip Glass's serious work in the field of "world music" was recognized long before the term entered the popular vocabulary. |
PHILIP GLASS
Philip Glass Recording Archive Volume III-Film Scores: Jenipapo Various Artists [ Orange Mountain / CD - released 28/Jul/2008 ] Philip Glass' original score to Monique Gardenberg's 1995 political thriller "Jenipapo", starring Henry Czerny, brought Glass another opportunity to composed against the backdrop of the Brazilian landscape and the tumult of political upheaval. |