Glass: Akhnaten
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Composer: Philip GlassConductor: Dennis Russell Davies
Orchestra: Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra
Performer: Angelika Schwarz
Performer: Christiana Wachtler
Performer: Cornelius Hauptmann
Performer: David Warrilow
Performer: Geraldine Rose
Performer: Helmut Holzapfel
Performer: Lynne Wilhelm-Koniger
Performer: Maria Koupilova-Ticha
Performer: Melinda Liebermann
Performer: Milagro Vargas
Performer: Paul Esswood
Performer: Tero Hannula
Performer: Victoria Schneider
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2003-10-28
Music Label: Sony
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Free Music Review: Changed my mind about Glass
Hit: 4 Stars
I have never been a fan of Philip Glass's vacant arpeggios and minimalism. After sitting through a rather typically monotonous Glass opera, "In the Penal Colony," I swore I would give little attention to future works; true, I avoid concerts where Glass is on the bill without contemporaries. However, perusing our public library, I came across the opera, "Akhnaten," and signed it out on a whim. What an interesting and engrossing twist from operas I am used to hearing at random: Puccini, Wagner, Verdi, etc. Perhaps it was my interest and acceptance of the postminimal style of John C. Adams, specifically, his opera "Nixon in China." I enjoyed Akhnaten; the melodies, the subtle weaving of chords and of course, the visions I created in my mind of the scenery and pageantry the music blossoms. The Act II, Scene 4, "Akhnaten's Hymn to the Aten" is one of the most musically intense and spiritual parts to this opera, and it certainly changed my mind about Glass, even if for a few hours.
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