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| The Hours (Score) | 
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| Artist: Philip Glass
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (63 reviews)
Sales Rank: 30150
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79693
UPC: 075597969320
EAN: 0075597969320
ASIN: B00007BH3Y
Release Date: December 10, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | 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 |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
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. 2002
Amazon.com
How 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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| Customer Reviews: Read 58 more reviews...
Haunting Music April 2, 2008
When I saw the Hours, I was struck my the music in the film. This CD carries a haunting theme throughout. Each track is similar but not redundant, conveying the same distinctive and urgent mood throughout.
Listening pleasure February 26, 2008
This is one of those pieces of music in which one never tires of listening.
Truly inspired November 6, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was a fan of Glass for years, but at some point I just couldn't be bothered about his music any more, because I felt he was repeating himself endlessly (true to his minimalist self, perhaps!)
Anyway, I came across this soundtrack recently and, I loved it. I think it contains some of his most beautiful and inspired music.
Highly recommended.
My Favorite CD! August 29, 2007
After how many years am I still listening to this cd?!! I have bought a few of Philip Glass' cds but this is my all time favorite. I listen to this over and over, when I'm happy, when I'm contemplative, whenever. I adore this music so much I have copies of it everywhere. Back in 2002, when it was first released, I played it every morning to my roommates' perplexity. They always seemed concerned that I would get depressed by this music. I would urge them to listen more carefully, for the music is tender, passionate, and voices its theme of the preciousness of life in the repetitive and loving way only achieved by masterpieces. I hope I never tire of this score as it brings me great peace.
captivating and haunting July 13, 2007
phillip glass is a genius. when i saw the hours i was taken in by the soundtrack along the lives of these women and the music score kept taking me deeper and deeper into the complexities of their lives. it was a journey i felt so captivated by that i just had to get the soundtrack and it's taken me years to find it. phillip glass does haunting like no other
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