Violin Concertos of John Adams & Philip Glass
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Composer: John [Composer] AdamsComposer: Philip Glass
Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach
Orchestra: Houston Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 1999-08-24
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
- I. Quarter Note = 78
- II. Chaconne: Body Through Which The Dream Flows
- III. Toccare
- I. Quarter Note = 104/Quarter Note = 120
- II. Quarter Note = Ca. 96
- III. Quarter Note = Ca. 150/Coda: Quarter Note = 104
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Music Review: Awesome!!!!! Two Minimalist Violin Concertos at Once!!!
Rating: 5 Stars
The violin has been the most popular instrument featured in concertos through ages. The traditional concertos such as those by Vivaldi and Bach are often played by many striving young violinists... ever toward the point of vexation; Mendelssohn's violin concerto is one work I detest (yet I still adore Tchaikovsky's). This soon brought me to take a sip on something more contemporary and less common.
Around the same time, I began to fall in love with Minimalism. I find it teeming with restless energy, fascinating as any other art movement, and good to one's ears... not to mention great for driving. Minimalist music spoke through music polyphonic and homophonic, through differnet genres including symphonies, operas, and of course concertos.
I first heard John Adams' Violin Concerto at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and immediately loved it. The second movement is quite dreamy, with a synthesizer playing the low notes, while the third movement is obviously the show piece for the soloist. I know I have to own it someday.
Curiosity on Philip Glass' music led me to by the Naxos recording of the Violin Concerto. After finding the soloist a bit bland, however, I soon decided to buy this album. The soloist in the album was much more expressive than the one in the Naxos recording, especially in the virtuosic, arpeggiation-filled third movement.
Each composer has its own Minimalist style - while Glass's music features simple harmonies and arpeggiations, Adam's music is like jumping through one treadmill to another, staying on one spot for a while before moving on to the next.
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