by Philip Glass
Release Date: 23 July 2021
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: Music On Vinyl
£49.99
PHILIP GLASS AKHNATEN Limited Deluxe 180gram Audiophile Vinyl 3LP Box Set
Overview:
Akhnaten is the third in the composer Philip Glass' trilogy of operas about men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas. Akhnaten's subject is religion. Its title was derived from the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten, who was the first monotheist in recorded story. His substitution of a one-god religion for the multi-god worship when he came to power ultimately resulted in his exclusion from lists of rulers compiled by later pharaohs, and his legacy became all but lost to history until the late 19th century. The opera describes the rise, reign, and fall of Akhnaten in a series of tableaus.
180 gram audiophile vinyl
Deluxe Lift-off Box Set
Includes 16-page libretto booklet
The third in Glass' thematically related Portrait Trilogy, along with Einstein On The Beach and Satyagraha
Includes Philip Glass catalogue with info on the Philip Glass series on MOV, coming in 2021
Only 1000 copies available
Featured Tracks:
SIDE A
ACT I: YEAR 1 OF AKHNATEN'S REIGN. THEBES
1. PRELUDE: REFRAIN, VERSE 1, VERSE 2
2. PRELUDE: VERSE 3
3. SCENE 1: FUNERAL OF AMENHOTEP III
SIDE B
1. SCENE 2: THE CORONATION OF AKHNATEN
2. SCENE 3: THE WINDOW OF APPEARANCES
SIDE C
ACT II: YEAR 5 TO 15. THEBES AND AKHENATEN
1. SCENE 1: THE TEMPLE
2. SCENE 2: AKHNATEN & NEFERTITI
3. SCENE 3: THE CITY. DANCE (BEGINNING)
ACT II: YEAR 5 TO 15. THEBES AND AKHENATEN
1. SCENE 1: THE TEMPLE
2. SCENE 2: AKHNATEN & NEFERTITI
3. SCENE 3: THE CITY. DANCE (BEGINNING)
SIDE D
1. SCENE 3: THE CITY. DANCE (CONCLUSION)
2. SCENE 4: HYMN
SIDE E
ACT III: YEAR 17 AND THE PRESENT. AKHENATEN
1. SCENE 1: THE FAMILY
2. SCENE 2: ATTACK & FALL
SIDE F
1. SCENE 3: THE RUINS
2. SCENE 4: EPILOGUE
Release Date: 27 September 2024
Format: LP Triple Vinyl
Label: Music On Vinyl Classical
£49.99
Release Date: 01 March 2024
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Music On Vinyl Classical
£32.99
Release Date: 26 January 2024
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: Music On Vinyl
£59.99
Release Date: 26 June 2023
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
£34.99 £23.49
