Philip Glass - Glass: A Madrigal Opera
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Artist: Philip GlassComposer: Philip Glass
Conductor: Jari Hiekkapelto
Orchestra: Ooppera Skaala
Performer: Ooppera Skaala
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2009-11-10
Music Label: Orange Mountain Music
Soundtracks:
- Part I -Opening
- Part I
- Part II
- Part III
- Part IV
- Part IV - Closing
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Free Music Review: Earlier Glass work with an intimate and beautiful scoring
Hit: 5 Stars
Containing Glass' early, repetative style yet beautiful and intimate, this music was a surprise and 'A Madrigal Opera' will likely be one of my favorite Glass CDs over time. This is truly one of the most unique pieces I have heard from Glass and it is one of the most original, refreshing CD releases of his work in a while from the OMM label.
Scored for a very intimate performance of violin, viola and six voices, this work contains all of the intense, repetative (and occasionally dissonent) tonalities heard in his early works but scores them for this small, almost gentle sounding orchestartion of stings and voices. It's nothing short of a Glass paradox by taking the kind of heavy, repetative structures you would expect from 'Koyaanisqatsi' and then having them performed through this almost ethereal sounding scoring. But even though the flavor of the piece is 'early Glass', I never felt as if 'I have heard this before' or felt as if Glass was borrowing from himself as I have complained about as of late with works like 'Toltec'. There is a little bit of paraphrasing from a 'Koyaanisqatsi' track but that is all; it felt like a completely original composition. This older work of Glass will definitely remind you of early Glass technically but the beauty of the simplicity of the scoring just lets the entire piece fantastically hypnotize you from start to finish.
For those who like comparisons, I would liken this composition to that of the string and vocal parts heard in the second piece/track of 'The Photographer' (Act II) as well as the 'Another Look at Harmony' track from the 'Early Voice' release. Much of this work has that 70's kind of Glass sound as heard during psychedelic-like animations during 'Sesame Street' and the like back then. Hints of the String Quartets are also evident here but the main style is that early Glass with this unique, chamber instrumentation.
Absolutely no reservation in recommending this amazingly beautiful, original and hypnotic work.
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