Glass: Violin concerto
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CD Details
Composer: Philip GlassConductor: Takuo Yuasa
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra
Performer: Adele Anthony
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-05-16
Music Label: Naxos American
Soundtracks:
- Company, for string quartet/string orchestra: Movement 1
- Company, for string quartet/string orchestra: Movement 2
- Company, for string quartet/string orchestra: Movement 3
- Company, for string quartet/string orchestra: Movement 4
- Violin Concerto: Movement 1
- Violin Concerto: Movement 2
- Violin Concerto: Movement 3
- Akhnaten, opera: Prelude
- Akhnaten, opera: Dance (Act II, Scene III)
Music reviews of Glass: Violin concerto
Music Review: Good purchase
Rating: 4 Stars
I heard the 1st mvt of the violin concerto last week on an online radio station and I was hooked. Closing my eyes, I almost felt transcended. It is emotionally powerful and dramatic. Violin is my favorite instrument. The other pieces on the CD are alright, but it is worth buying for the concerto. It's a steal for $3 used. This is my first purchase of a Glass work.
Description of Glass: Violin concerto
Philip Glass's signature doom-and-gloom minor sonorities and shifting rhythms scintillate and eddy under the touch of Adele Anthony and the Ulster Symphony. The solo line in the Violin Concerto is at odds with a unified orchestra throughout, and Anthony's romantic tone draws the listener in for an exploration of the texture, grain, and fiber of Glass's structural minimalism. The Ulster Symphony's rendering of Company and Akhnaten, under the leadership of Takuo Yuasa, forms brilliant darts of tonal color. As a musical adaptation of Samuel Beckett's prose of the same name, Company's dark ruminations are appropriate for the text's depiction of a solitary figure lying on his back in the dark. The orchestra seems aware of their repetitious mechanical task in performing these works, yet this human awareness is what makes Glass's orchestral work so compelling. --Alexis OdellGeneral CDs
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