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Philip Glass: Heroes Symphony +The Light in Andersonville, New Brunswick for sale

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With a long way Philip Glass has come between composing The Light in 1987 and the Heroes Symphony in 1996. The former is inspired by Einstein's discovery of the 'uniform speed of light' and is an undulating, minimalist piece, with changing orchestration eventually leading to a 'transformation' of the initial motive and a final cessation of the pulsing. It lasts for 24 minutes and some listeners may find it difficult to stay the course. The Heroes Symphony, however, has six movements (chosen from ten) to make a varied but fairly cohesive structural whole with attractive and changing invention and imaginative scoring and percussive detail to match the character of the six named sections. Glass moves from Arabic exoticism to the plangent brass darkness of the Sense of Doubt, wistful woodwind writing for Sons of the Silent Age and an animated close for the enigmatically named V2 Schneider. The result is hardly a masterpiece, but is undoubtedly entertaining in Marin Alsop's persuasive performance, excellently played by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and very well recorded. (from the Penguin Guide, 2009)


Category:  Movies & Music  |  Address:  Andersonville New Brunswick

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