On June 13, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, and the GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers released Philip Glass Violin Concerto No.1, This marks Meyers’s third album on the Platoon label, following Fandango (2023), which won two 2024 Latin GRAMMY® Awards, and Beloved (2025).

Following a commission from the American Composers Orchestra in 1987, Philip Glass set out to compose a violin concerto his father would have enjoyed. He grew up working in his father's Baltimore record store, and after years of study and success with his minimalist music, this commission gave him a chance to return to more traditional styles. Sadly, his father died in a car accident and never got to hear the piece Glass wrote for him.

“Even though Ben Glass had passed away 13 years prior, he was very much in Philip’s mind,” says Meyers. “There are actually three notes inside the score, D-A-D.” After the introduction in the first movement, the percussion sets the stage for the entrance of the violin soloist, who plays the notes D-A-D. “Over these decades, many performances and many recordings, no one has ever mentioned that to me,” Glass says. “I don’t know how I could have made it any more obvious.”

During the recording, Gustavo Dudamel could feel the deep history of the piece. “The music of Philip Glass is full of beauty” he says. “I always listen to his music and conduct it as if you're on a trip — always moving forward… like you can touch the future.”

The release also includes the world-premiere recording of New Chaconne, a work that meditates on friendship, collaboration, and the joy of music making, which Glass composed for Meyers in 2023 after the two met in New York. Emmanuel Ceysson, the principal harpist of the L.A. Phil, accompanies Meyers on the track. Closing the album is Glass’s Echorus (1994–95), performed by Meyers and rising star Aubree Oliverson with the Colburn School’s Academy Virtuosi.

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Track List

1. Violin Concerto No. 1
2. Echorus
3. New Chaconne

On June 13, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, and the GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers released Philip Glass Violin Concerto No.1, This marks Meyers’s third album on the Platoon label, following Fandango (2023), which won two 2024 Latin GRAMMY® Awards, and Beloved (2025).

Following a commission from the American Composers Orchestra in 1987, Philip Glass set out to compose a violin concerto his father would have enjoyed. He grew up working in his father's Baltimore record store, and after years of study and success with his minimalist music, this commission gave him a chance to return to more traditional styles. Sadly, his father died in a car accident and never got to hear the piece Glass wrote for him.

“Even though Ben Glass had passed away 13 years prior, he was very much in Philip’s mind,” says Meyers. “There are actually three notes inside the score, D-A-D.” After the introduction in the first movement, the percussion sets the stage for the entrance of the violin soloist, who plays the notes D-A-D. “Over these decades, many performances and many recordings, no one has ever mentioned that to me,” Glass says. “I don’t know how I could have made it any more obvious.”

During the recording, Gustavo Dudamel could feel the deep history of the piece. “The music of Philip Glass is full of beauty” he says. “I always listen to his music and conduct it as if you're on a trip — always moving forward… like you can touch the future.”

The release also includes the world-premiere recording of New Chaconne, a work that meditates on friendship, collaboration, and the joy of music making, which Glass composed for Meyers in 2023 after the two met in New York. Emmanuel Ceysson, the principal harpist of the L.A. Phil, accompanies Meyers on the track. Closing the album is Glass’s Echorus (1994–95), performed by Meyers and rising star Aubree Oliverson with the Colburn School’s Academy Virtuosi.

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Track List

1. Violin Concerto No. 1
2. Echorus
3. New Chaconne

On June 13, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, and the GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers released Philip Glass Violin Concerto No.1, This marks Meyers’s third album on the Platoon label, following Fandango (2023), which won two 2024 Latin GRAMMY® Awards, and Beloved (2025).

Following a commission from the American Composers Orchestra in 1987, Philip Glass set out to compose a violin concerto his father would have enjoyed. He grew up working in his father's Baltimore record store, and after years of study and success with his minimalist music, this commission gave him a chance to return to more traditional styles. Sadly, his father died in a car accident and never got to hear the piece Glass wrote for him.

“Even though Ben Glass had passed away 13 years prior, he was very much in Philip’s mind,” says Meyers. “There are actually three notes inside the score, D-A-D.” After the introduction in the first movement, the percussion sets the stage for the entrance of the violin soloist, who plays the notes D-A-D. “Over these decades, many performances and many recordings, no one has ever mentioned that to me,” Glass says. “I don’t know how I could have made it any more obvious.”

During the recording, Gustavo Dudamel could feel the deep history of the piece. “The music of Philip Glass is full of beauty” he says. “I always listen to his music and conduct it as if you're on a trip — always moving forward… like you can touch the future.”

The release also includes the world-premiere recording of New Chaconne, a work that meditates on friendship, collaboration, and the joy of music making, which Glass composed for Meyers in 2023 after the two met in New York. Emmanuel Ceysson, the principal harpist of the L.A. Phil, accompanies Meyers on the track. Closing the album is Glass’s Echorus (1994–95), performed by Meyers and rising star Aubree Oliverson with the Colburn School’s Academy Virtuosi.

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Track List

1. Violin Concerto No. 1
2. Echorus
3. New Chaconne