Info
Music by Philip Glass from the music of David Bowie and Brian Eno.
Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers.
Commission
Instrumentation
Premiere
World Concert premiere by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, conducted by Martn Brabbins on May 15th 1997 as part of the Crouch End Festival in North London.
Continental European premiere by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies June 5th 1997.
Notes
The continuing influence of these works has secured their stature as part of the new “classics” of our time. Just as composers of the past have turned to music of their time to fashion new works, the work of Bowie and Eno became an inspiration and point of departure of symphonies of my own.
— Philip Glass
Scores
Related
Symphony No. 1 “Low”
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 5 (Choral)
Symphony No. 6 “Plutonian Ode”
RECORDINGS:
Symphony No.4 “Heroes”
Philip Glass – The Symphonies
“Heroes” and “Low” Symphonies on Universal
“Heroes” Symphony on Point Music
The World of Philip Glass on Decca