MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glass: Dancepieces
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PHILIP GLASS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Glass: Dancepieces
Glass Philip Ensemble / Michael Riesman
[ Sony / CD ]
Release Date: Wednesday 20 October 2010
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Philip Glass is one of the most prolific and distinguished composers of the 20th Century. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and scored dozens of operas, films and plays, and released symphonic compositions and solo work. His work is frequently characterised by repetitive and minimalistic structures.
The usual stuff is here: arpeggio versus ostinato, ostinato versus arpeggio. And as always, the Philip Glass Ensemble's synthesizers double their woodwinds. But Glassworks is the most pleasant craftwork ever from the great minimalist exploiter - six warm pieces that approach the spirit of minimalist pioneer Erik Satie. Only instead of Satie's lyrical-to-antic jumps, Glass creates the ruminative-to-excitable kind. "Opening"'s softly rolled piano melody is music to fold your hands and muse by, and when Sharon Moe's French horn sets up "Floe," everything seems nice and level - until the flailing woodwinds and synthesizers of the ensemble crash in. Glassworks is tuneful in the most pleasingly direct sense - the arrangements define the melodies so cleanly they're instantly memorable. In addition, the album is programmed with a particular shape in mind. It's kind of a waveform, where every other relaxed melody is upset by a classic Glass rush - "Floe" is even outpaced by "Rubric"'s honki. Allmusic
Tracks:
In The Upper Room
1 Dance I 1:10
2 Dance II 5:42
3 Dance V 3:21
4 Dance VIII 4:58
5 Dance IX 8:08
Glasspieces
6 Glasspiece #1 ("Rubric") 6:03
7 Glasspiece #2 ("Facades") 7:20
8 Glasspiece #3 ("Funeral" From Akhnaten) 8:52
