Philip Glass

US composer & pianist, United States, 1937 to present

Albums

Year Title Average Ratings
2004 Metamorphosis
2024 Philip Glass Solo 8.0 1
239 more releases
1971 Music With Changing Parts
1974 Music in Twelve Parts, Parts 1 & 2
1975 Solo Music
1979 Einstein on the Beach
1980 Dance nos. 1 & 3
1982 Glassworks
1983 The Photographer
1985 Satyagraha
1986 Songs From Liquid Days
1987 Akhnaten
1988 Dance nos. 1-5
1989 1000 Airplanes on the Roof
1989 Solo Piano
1990 Minimalist
1990 Music in Twelve Parts
1990 Passages
1992 Trivium
1993 Barber / Dvořák / Glass
1993 “Low” Symphony
1993 Itaipu / The Canyon
1993 Glass Organ Works
1993 Einstein on the Beach
1993 Hydrogen Jukebox
1995 Kronos Quartet performs Philip Glass
1995 Brant / Scelsi / Wolpe / Xenakis / Cage / Glass / Feldman
1996 Music in Twelve Parts
1997 “Heroes” Symphony: From the Music of David Bowie & Brian Eno
1998 Symphony no. 2
1998 Circles
1999 Piano Music
1999 Minimal Piano Works, Volume I (Piano: Jeroen van Veen)
1999 the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down
1999 Águas da Amazonia
1999 Violin Concertos
2000 Symphony no. 5: Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya
2000 Piano Music of Philip Glass
2000 Violin Concerto / Prelude and Dance from Akhnaten / Company
2000 Symphony no. 3
2000 Glass Cage
2001 Music for Organ
2001 Early Keyboard Music
2001 Music in the Shape of a Square
2002 Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
2002 Glass Reflections
2002 Glass / Salonen
2002 Early Voice
2003 600 Lines / How Now
2003 The Orphée Suite
2003 Etudes for Piano, Volume 1: Nos. 1-10
2004 Dennis Russell Davies Performs Philip Glass: Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and Selections from Passages
2004 The Concerto Project, Volume I
2004 Music in Fifths / Two Pages
2004 Symphonies nos. 2 and 3
2005 Glassworks Vol. 2
2005 Les Enfants Terribles
2005 Orion
2005 Music 4 Hands
2005 Symphony No. 6 "Plutonian Ode"
2006 Metamorphosis
2006 Dances & Sonata
2006 Symphony no. 8
2006 The Voyage
2006 Analog
2006 The Concerto Project, Volume II
2006 The Witches of Venice
2007 Early American Minimalism / Walls of Sound II / Wallpatterns-Patternwalls
2007 The Invitation: Saxophonquartette des 20. Jahrhunderts
2007 Philip Glass: The Piano Music
2007 Monsters of Grace
2007 Heroes Symphony • The Light
2007 Music with Changing Parts (Icebreaker)
2007 Theater Music, Volume 1
2007 Book of Longing
2008 Philip Glass: Portrait
2008 Another Look at Harmony, Part IV
2008 Sentieri Selvaggi Plays Gavin Bryars & Philip Glass
2008 Waiting for the Barbarians
2008 American Classics: Minimalism
2008 Songs and Poems for Solo Cello
2008 Complete String Quartets
2008 The Concerto Project, Volume III
2008 Four American Quartets
2008 Music in Twelve Parts
2009 The Juniper Tree
2009 In the Upper Room
2009 Towers of Power
2009 Time Curve: Music for Piano by Philip Glass and William Duckworth
2009 Glass / Tavener / Nyman
2009 Symphony no. 7 "Toltec"
2009 A Madrigal Opera. Cameo. A Symphonic Poem
2010 Glass: Violin Concerto no. 1 / Bernstein: Serenade After Plato's Symposium
2010 A Retrospective
2010 Itaipu and Three Songs
2010 Timeless
2010 String Quartets nos. 1-4
2010 How Now
2010 Schoenberg/Glass
2010 Violin Concerto no. 2: The American Four Seasons
2011 Symphony no. 9
2011 Kepler
2011 Phædra, Modern Love Waltz and 21 Robert Moran Orchestrations
2011 Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass
2011 Mad Rush: Solo Piano Music of Philip Glass
2011 Primakov in Concert, Vol. 2
2011 Concerto for Cello and Orchestra no. 1
2011 The Concerto Project, Volume IV: Double Concerto for Violin, Cello & Orchestra / Tirol Concerto for Piano & Orchestra
2011 Works for Saxophone Quartet
2011 In the Penal Colony
2012 Tara Hugo Sings Philip Glass
2012 The Passion of Ramakrishna
2012 Metamorphosis
2012 Bach / Glass
2012 Metamorphosis / The Hours
2013 Metamorphosis / Acoustic Counterpoint
2013 The Piano Music of Philip Glass
2013 Glass: Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra / Fairouz: Symphony no. 4 "In the Shadow of No Towers"
2013 Concert of the Sixth Sun
2013 Solo Piano Music
2013 Cello Concerto no. 2: Naqoyqatsi
2013 Harpsichord Concertos
2013 Galileo Galilei
2013 Solo Piano
2014 Symphony no. 1 "Low" (From the Music of David Bowie and Brian Eno)
2014 Voices for Didgeridoo and Organ / Organ Suite
2014 Two x Four
2014 Heroes Symphony
2014 Music for Violin and Piano
2014 Symphony no. 4 "Heroes"
2014 The Complete Piano Etudes
2015 Mad Rush
2015 Glassworlds 1: Piano Works and Transcriptions
2015 Valentina Lisitsa plays Philip Glass: The Hours / Metamorphosis / Mad Rush
2015 Bach / Glass
2015 Tim Fain plays Philip Glass: Partita for Solo Violin
2015 New Seasons
2015 Glass Piano
2015 Symphony no. 10
2015 String Quartet no. 5 / Suite from Dracula / String Sextet
2015 Glassworlds 2: Complete Etudes nos. 1-20
2015 Beauty and the Beast
2016 Glassworlds 5: Enlightenment
2016 Glassworlds 4: On Love
2016 Glassworlds 3: Metamorphosis
2016 New Generations: The Etudes of Philip Glass and Music of the Next Generation
2016 The Perfect American
2016 In the Summer House
2016 The Symphonies
2016 Cluster Ensemble Plays Philip Glass
2016 Prophecies
2016 The Glass Effect: The Music of Philip Glass
2016 Recent Recordings
2017 Partitas for Solo Cello
2017 Strung Up
2017 LIFE: A Journey Through Time
2017 String Quartets nos. 6 and 7
2017 Águas da Amazônia
2017 Glass
2017 Piano Works
2017 Glass Essentials - An 80th Anniversary Tribute
2017 Company
2017 Complete Piano Etudes
2017 The Trial
2017 Complete Etudes for Piano
2017 Piano Works
2018 Symphony no. 11
2018 Echoes
2018 Complete Études for Solo Piano
2018 Music with Changing Parts
2018 Circles
2018 Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit / Glass: Company
2018 Alma Quartet: Dutilleux and Glass
2018 Motion Picture
2018 The Grid
2018 ARC
2018 Études
2018 Mishima
2018 The Spirit of the Earth
2018 The Hours / Distant Figure
2019 Glassworlds 6: America
2019 Perpetulum
2019 The Not-Doings of an Insomniac: Bass Partita and Poetry
2019 Symphony no. 5
2019 Metamorphosis I‐V
2019 Annunciation
2019 Mummer Love
2019 Joe Hisaishi Presents Music Future IV
2020 Violin Concertos
2020 Piano Sonata
2020 Violin Concerto no. 2 “American Four Seasons” / Violin Sonata
2020 King Lear
2020 King Lear
2020 A Character of Quiet
2020 Les Enfants terribles
2021 Études pour piano (intégrale)
2021 Metamorphosis
2021 This is America!
2021 First Light
2021 Maya Beiser x Philip Glass
2021 A Common Time
2021 Symphony No. 14, "Liechtenstein Suite" / Piano Concerto No. 1 "Tirol" / Echorus
2021 SONGS
2022 Africa Sings
2022 Mishima
2022 Symphony No. 12 "Lodger" (from lyrics by David Bowie and Brian Eno)
2022 Complete String Quartets, Volume 1: String Quartets nos. 1–4
2022 Sixteen Seasons
2022 Piano Etudes, Book 1
2022 Vitreous Body
2022 Philip Glass: The Spirit of the Earth
2023 Complete String Quartets, Volume 2: String Quartets nos. 5–7
2023 ICONS - The American Minimalists
2023 Contemporary American Composers
2023 Amazônia
2023 Amérique(s)
2024 Violin Concerto no. 2 "The American Four Seasons"
2024 Cocteau Trilogy
2024 Four Hands
2024 Philip Glass: Etudes for Piano
2024 Minimalist
2024 Glass Two
2025 Águas da Amazonia
2025 Selected Piano Etudes
2025 Violin Concerto no. 1
2025 Performing Philip Glass: Music with Changing Parts
2025 Philip Glass: Glassworks
2025 Etudes, Vol.1
2025 Etude No. 1 → No. 8
2025 The Complete Piano Etudes
2025 Philip Glass: The Complete Piano Etudes
2025 My Cinematic Autumn
2025 Be The Sky
2025 Einstein on the Beach
2026 Echoes
2026 Philip Glass for Cello
2026 Barber; Zorn; Glas; Violin Concertos / Partita for the Firebird
2026 Philip Glass: Music for Film
Piano Works
Philip Glass: Piano Etudes 1-10
Minimal Piano Works, Vol. I

EPs

Year Title Average Ratings
2021 Glass-Bach Dresden
2023 Refractions
2025 String Quartet No.9 "King Lear"

Live

Year Title Average Ratings
2006 Philip Glass Ensemble Live in Monterrey, Mexico
2009 Piano Music: Four Movements for Two Pianos / Etudes for Piano / The Hours
2010 Orphée
2011 Glassworks + Music in Similar Motion
2013 Symphony no. 3 / The Hours
2014 How Now, Strung Out
2014 Koyaanisqatsi with Orchestra
2014 Spuren der Verirrten - The Lost
2017 The Complete Piano Etudes: Live in Moscow
2019 The Fall of the House of Usher
2020 Music in Twelve Parts: Concert à Paris, 1975
2021 Satyagraha
2021 Akhnaten
2025 Joe Hisaishi Presents Music Future VII

Soundtracks

Year Title Average Ratings
1983 Koyaanisqatsi 9.0 1
1998 Koyaanisqatsi
40 more releases
1977 North Star
1985 Mishima
1988 The Thin Blue Line
1988 Powaqqatsi
1992 The Screens
1993 Anima Mundi (Original Soundtrack Recording)
1995 La Belle et la Bête
1996 The Secret Agent: Music From the Original Soundtrack
1997 Kundun
1998 The Truman Show: Music From the Motion Picture
1999 Dracula
2001 The Music of Candyman
2002 A Descent Into the Maelström
2002 Naqoyqatsi: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2002 The Hours
2003 The Fog of War
2004 Music From The Hours
2004 The Music of Undertow
2006 Notes on a Scandal: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
2006 Roving Mars
2006 The Illusionist
2007 From the Philip Glass Recording Archive, Volume I: Theater Music
2007 Dracula
2007 Les Animaux amoureux
2007 Cassandra’s Dream
2008 From the Philip Glass Recording Archive, Volume III: Film Scores: Jenipapo
2008 From the Philip Glass Recording Archive, Volume IV: Film Scores: Neverwas
2009 Les Regrets
2010 Nosso Lar
2013 Visitors
2014 Candyman (Original 1992 Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2015 A Brief History of Time
2015 The Fantastic Four
2016 Candyman 2: Farewell To The Flesh (Original 1995 Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2017 Jane: Original National Geographic Motion Picture Soundtrack
2020 Tales from the Loop (Original Soundtrack)
2020 The Last Dalai Lama?
2023 The Pigeon Tunnel: Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film
2024 Tales from the Loop (Solo Piano Version)
2025 Once Within a Time: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Remixes

Year Title Average Ratings
2005 Glass Cuts: Philip Glass Remixed
2012 REWORK_Philip Glass Remixed
2017 Cinematix
2025 Cinematix Vol. 2