The Hours (Score)
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Composer: Philip GlassEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-12-10
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
- The Poet Acts
- Morning Passages
- Something She Has To Do
- 'For Your Own Benefit'
- Vanessa And The Changelings
- 'I'm Going To Make A Cake'
- An Unwelcome Friend
- Dead Things
- The Kiss
- 'Why Does Someone Have To Die?'
- Tearing Herself Away
- Escape!
- Choosing Life
- The Hours
Music reviews of The Hours (Score)
Music Review: Haunting, Mesmerizing, Inspiring, Poetic!
Rating: 5 Stars
The movie (The Hours), can't exist without the music. It is the very essence of the film. It breathes life, passion, a haunting feeling that leaves one wanting. I love Philip Glass' music, but "The Hours" soundtrack is his best yet. The score is nostalgic, at times sheer poetry in the form of heavenly (what I mean by that is that, the music creates a world that is utopic, whimsical, anything that is beautiful, simply wonderful) instrumental majesty. I do my best thinking while listening to its soothing, inspiring tunes. I write my best poems to its captivating melody.
It's always my luck to happen upon something that is great by chance. While shopping for a book at a major Bookstore, I overhead a piece from the soundtrack (At the time I hadn't read the book, nor had I seen the movie), that stopped me dead in my tracks. It held me there a prisoner to its moving, melodious rythym.
At the end of the piece, I literally skipped to the register and asked the receptionist, if she had that music in stock. She informed me that they indeed had a couple. I told her I must have it.
This soundtrack should be in everyone's library of music.
It can help you relax, reminisce or take you to a new world where everything is magical, at times spirtitual, or it can transport you to a utopic world (similar to Frank Herbert's world "Dune" or the "Children of Dune").
I can only say that The Hours soundtrack, by P. Glass, is a rare masterpiece, a must have.
Description of The Hours (Score)
The superb orchestral music for this powerfully affecting film is by Philip Glass, whose spellbinding 1999 score for Martin Scorcese's Kundun (also on Nonesuch) added an aura of portent and sweep that contributed significantly to the film's impact. The film stars Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman & Ed Harris. Slipcase. 2002How better to score a movie that takes place in three tangentially related time periods than with music that strives for timelessness? The hallmarks of Philip Glass's minimalism serve The Hours well. The film, based on Michael Cunningham's novel, tells the stories of three women--Virginia Woolf in the early 1920s, a housewife just after World War II, and a book editor in the present--whose days relate in different ways to Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. Yet rather than construct a sonic montage of these three time periods (perhaps some Ravel for Woolf, some Max Steiner for the housewife, some Enya for the editor), Hours producer Scott Rudin turned to Glass, a contemporary-classical composer who has had a substantial side career in film, most notably with Koyaanisqatsi. The familiar Glass sounds--the endlessly layered violins, the static melodies, the glacial rhythms--all lend a consistent aural foundation to a story that moves fluidly back and forth in time. The music is scored for orchestra, string quartet, and piano. Those plentiful strings lend a thick cushion, a triumph of tonal suspension, for the piano part, which Michael Riesman plays coolly, emphasizing what are often single notes separated by thoughtful silences, as well as short sets of scales cascading in slow motion. Not only will these compositional themes be familiar to fans of Glass's work, so too will several of the melodies. Some sections of the score are derived from his albums Glassworks and Solo Piano and from his opera Satyagraha--which, incidentally, involved the stories of three legendary men active in different eras. --Marc Weidenbaum
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