Nearly 40 years since it first visited Bristol to perform Music In 12 Parts as part of Arnolfini's opening at Bush House in 1975, Philip Glass Ensemble return to the city to present the UK premiere of its Retrospective programme a kind of partial'Greatest Hits' that revisits some of Philip Glass' most important, popular and epoch-defining works.

They include the Cologne Section from CIVIL warS (1984), originally created for an unrealised Robert Wilson project for the Los Angeles Olympic Games; excerpts from the seminal Music In 12 Parts, which resonate alongside key works from the 1980s including the last act of his chamber opera The Photographer, and music written for Godfrey Reggio's cult film Koyaanisqatsi. Music in Similar Motion meantime, dizzying and determined, takes the story back to 1969.

With the ensemble fresh from performing around the world in productions of Einstein On The Beach, this is a fabulous, unrepeatable opportunity to see one of the true masters of contemporary music perform in what has become his most enduring and historically important musical setting.

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