Orange Mountain Music

Orange Mountain Music is a record company created to serve the fans, aficionados and academics studying the music of Philip Glass. Founded in 2001, the foundational idea for this label developed out of a project undertaken by Kurt Munkacsi and Don Christensen to archive all the master recordings that Philip Glass has made. Over some 40 years Glass... had produced hundreds of hours of recordings in the process of creating operas, concert works, film scores, musical theatre pieces and studio albums. This became the foundation of the label; the company began to release these recordings in the early 2000s, eventually leading to the production of new recordings, not just archival material. Under the leadership of director Don Christensen, fifteen years into the project, OMM's catalogue contains over 100 titles including the majority of Glass' creative output: ten symphonies, seven string quartets, dozens of film scores, chamber music, world music and numerous operas. OMM has released a wide variety of Glass's music featuring a roster of prominent international ensembles that include the Bruckner Orchester Linz, New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and Pacific Symphony; theaters including the Landestheater Linz, Teatro Real Madrid, Music Theatre Wales, Portland Opera, and Brooklyn Academy of Music; soloists including Robert McDuffie, Matt Haimovitz, Julian Lloyd Webber, Maki Namekawa, and Tim Fain; new music groups including the Philip Glass Ensemble, Kronos Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, Dublin Guitar Quartet, Alter Ego, Signal Ensemble, Icebreaker, and Cluster Ensemble; and conductors Dennis Russell Davies, Dante Anzolini, Michael Riesman, Gerard Schwarz, Anne Manson, Jurjen Hempel, and Marin Alsop.Read More