The Essential Philip Glass

Good CD to start with if you want to hear Mr Glass and where he's coming from - good mixture of his work.

Fine

Ideal for your mp3 player/Walkman the triple cd collection provides a wealth of tracks to sample the works of Philip Glass at leisure, from orchestral to opera, the music provides a great perspective of his works.Certainly worth the money and providing easy listening and an introduction to Glass's opus.

Here for once is something that's exactly what it says on the packet - essential!Everything you could possibly need.

Features too many songs from Liquid Days album and still manages to leave off Freezing, which was a single and played on Radio 2 at the time of its release so the closest Philip has come to a hit single!If you only know the film scores than this is good primer for future exploration. Good selection from 'The Trilogy' operas. I'd also recommend 'solo piano'.

Beautifull, and continually surprising. Good value. RDR

If you like formal classical vocal material, then CD3 and other parts of the collection will be for you. Personally, the clipped warbling of (OK, highly trained) classical singers drives me absolutely nuts. So the temptation has been to bin CD3 for that reason. I know many classical fans will rear up in indignation at such a phillistine point of view, but hey, you can walk away form this review! The other 2 CDs have some interesting material in them, sometimes reminding me of Penguin Cafe, amidst the familiar avant garde presentation of Philip Glass. Over-all, worth listening through in order to select pieces for your own compilation or play-list.

good overall view of his work