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Philip Glass: Music Without Words

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Download links and information about Philip Glass: Music Without Words by Philip Glass. This album was released in 1994 and it belongs to Classical genres. It contains 14 tracks with total duration of 01:43:14 minutes.

Artist: Philip Glass
Release date: 1994
Genre: Classical
Tracks: 14
Duration: 01:43:14
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No. Title Length
1. Melody No. 1 for Alto Saxophone (featuring Andrew Sterman) 2:49
2. Sonatina No. 2 for Piano 2:44
3. String Quartet No. 1: Movement II (featuring Brooklyn Rider) 6:46
4. Passages: No. 1, Offering (featuring Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies, Raschèr Saxophone Quartet / Rascher Saxophone Quartet) 10:08
5. Passages: No. 3, Channels & Winds (featuring Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies, Raschèr Saxophone Quartet / Rascher Saxophone Quartet) 8:08
6. Passages: No. 5, Meetings along the Edge (featuring Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies, Raschèr Saxophone Quartet / Rascher Saxophone Quartet) 8:48
7. Music in Similar Motion (featuring The Philip Glass Ensemble) 17:12
8. Einstein on the Beach: Knee 5 (featuring The Philip Glass Ensemble) 5:51
9. Einstein on the Beach: Train (featuring The Philip Glass Ensemble) 6:16
10. Orion: No. 4, Canada (featuring Ashley MacIsaac, The Philip Glass Ensemble) 10:47
11. The Hours: Movement I (featuring Michael Riesman, Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Anne Manson) 10:27
12. Symphony No. 3: Movement II (featuring Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies) 6:14
13. Orphée: Orphée and the Princesse (featuring Paul Barnes) 4:37
14. Orphée: Interlude (featuring Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies) 2:27

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Music With Changing Parts is one of the seminal works in Philip Glass' career, and a defining point for the genre known as minimalism. Recorded in 1971, five years before he would break through to the public consciousness with Einstein on the Beach (which, arguably, was the moment his music ceased to be minimalist in the strict sense of the term), it represents the genre in a very pure form. Over its hour-long course, it both maintains a steady-state of sameness while percolating with all manner of variations. In retrospect, it's easy to see the affinities to the contemporaneous work of Terry Riley (A Rainbow in Curved Air and In C) and Steve Reich (Drumming), though all would soon branch apart. Here, the electric keyboards provide a pulsating substructure over which the winds, violin, and voice cast long, sighing lines forming the essential tension between dreaminess and rigor. There's also a palpable sense of excitement in the performance, the musicians very aware that they're on to something new and wonderful. This is an aspect of Glass' work which would diminish over time as his compositions became increasingly rote and academic. Listeners who only know his music from the period after he had attained a degree of pop stardom should certainly hear his more vital, formative compositions including this one and Music in Similar Motion.