condition (records/covers/box): NM / NM / NM

6LPs with individual covers in box. Insert included.

The first complete recording of all twelve parts, fourteen years after the work was finished. Released by Virgin's classical imprint Venture. Parts 1-6 were recorded in May 1975 at Greene Street Studios in New York with the first-generation Philip Glass Ensemble: Glass and Michael Riesman on keyboards, Richard Landry and Jon Gibson on flute and soprano saxophone, Richard Peck on alto and tenor saxophone, Joan La Barbara on voice. Parts 7-12 were recorded in December 1987 with the later Ensemble line-up: Martin Goldray replaces Glass on keyboards, Jack Kripl replaces Landry, Dora Ohrenstein replaces La Barbara.

Kurt Munkacsi engineered both sessions. Roughly four hours of additive transformation across twelve discrete movements. The 1988 box was the first time most listeners could hear the work end to end outside the rare live performances. CD edition followed in 1989 as CDVEBX 32.