Philip Glass - Glass: In the Upper Room
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Artist: Philip GlassComposer: Philip Glass
Conductor: Michael Riesman
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2009-03-03
Music Label: Orange Mountain Music
Soundtracks:
- Dance I
- Dance II
- Dance III
- Dance IV
- Dance V
- Dance VI
- Dance VII
- Dance VIII
- Dance IX
Music reviews of Glass: In the Upper Room
Music Review: Philip Glass- In the Upper Room
Rating: 4 Stars
This is music, recently re-recorded and conducted by long-time Glassman Michael Riesman, originally written for a Twyla Tharp ballet done back in the mid 1980s. As a result of its time frame, the music is more akin to the purist minimalism of the time, which is a style of music based on gradual change over more rapid repetition. It is a beautifully hypnotic approach to music, and one that is absent from much of Glass's more recent orchestral works.
There is a difference between this score and that of the original music. This recording is all acoustic, whereas the original used synthesizers to "thicken" the sound for the thirteen dancers.
If you have the album "Dance Pieces", you have five of the nine movements of this work as it was originally recorded. This CD contains all nine movements, and, of course, without the synthetics, is somewhat more sparse in nature.
Some movements are performed with strings, others with brass and woodwinds. I think my favorite is the brass work in the third movement, short as it may be. But the work is at its best when all three elements (strings, winds, and brass) combine to create an elegant orchestral layering of sounds, hypnotic yet beautiful, repetitive yet eternal in its cyclic nature. This is best seen in "Dance IV" and the gorgeous concluding "Dance XI", which also includes a female vocalist.
The only real sad part is the brevity of the recording. Although 38 minutes was a standard album length in the pre-CD age, it just seems like it is over and done all too quickly.
(4.5 stars out of 5)
MC Mahan
Description of Glass: In the Upper Room
The complete Philip Glass score to the Glass-Tharp ballet In the Upper Room. The 1986 ballet was never released entirely, just an abbreviated version on Sony. This new Orange Mountain Music recording is on all acoustic instruments without synthesized reinforced orchestral sound. The first truly recording of the ever popular ballet.Classical CDs
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