This week's musical post is another in honour of Philip Glass, who just celebrated his 87th birthday. It's a recording by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the baton on Riccardo Muti, and it won a Grammy Award last weekend for the best engineered classical recording.
I haven't been a fan of most of Glass's symphonies, but I do like this one quite a lot. In a review, Classics Today calls it a "rollicking ride" and that's an apt description. It's much livelier and to my ear, much more enjoyable, than his 13th, which I saw performed last a couple of years ago.
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