Symphony No. 1 (Glass)
Symphony No. 1 ("Low") is a symphony by Philip Glass based on David Bowie's 1977 album "Low". In 1996 Glass based another symphony on David Bowie's following album ""Heroes"", and in 2018 he based his 12th Symphony on Bowie's album "Lodger", completing his trilogy of symphonies based on Bowie's "Berlin Triptych". The symphony. The symphony was composed in 1992 and scored for full orchestra with 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, E clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, percussion, harp, piano and strings (including 8  first violins, 6 second violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos and 2 double basses). The symphony has three movements: "Some Are", the David Bowie song on which the second movement was based, was not included on the original release of "Low", but was recorded around the "Low" recording sessions. The song would later be released on the Rykodisc reissue of the album in 1991, as well as the 2008 David Bowie compilation "iSelect". Recordings. The first recording of this work was released in 1993 under the title "Low Symphony". It was performed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic orchestra under the batons of  Dennis Russell Davies, principal conductor, and Karen Kamensek, assistant conductor. Philip Glass allowed ideas of Bowie and Brian Eno, who worked together on "Low", to influence how he worked on the music.