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| Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass | 
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| Creators: Joan Jeanrenaud, Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet, Hank Dutt, David Harrington, John Sherba
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (23 reviews)
Sales Rank: 38130
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79356
UPC: 075597935622
EAN: 0075597935622
ASIN: B000005J35
Release Date: February 7, 1995
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not bad, yet not the Glass of early power July 12, 2000
5 out of 12 found this review helpful
The early Glass music with saxophones and Farfisa Organs was powerful stuff. It was when his ideas were taking shape, on the slow transformations of timbre, where mists of harmonies slowly change over a repetitive pulse. When these ideas were introduced into theatre and opera they captured a kind of primitiviness with the help of Robert Wilson who made Einstein on the Beach for instance what it was. Since that time roughly 1976,all Glass has fallen into a vacuous time warp where what began as interesting ways of making one-dimensional surface music, through process and timbral transformations simply became market conconctions for breeze easy listening. But today if you venture to listen to Glass, the string quartet,I suppose provides a purist genre in which to survey and examine some of these theories now in a truncated and diluted state. All these quartets sound the same to me,like one monolith colossus quartet, and that's great for the Kronos always likes to blend into each other as much as possible,there are no personalities emerging here as you might find in the variegated and thornier Arditti Quartet.Although Glass was shrewd enough to realize that he works best within the safe confines of a programmatic agenda,he doesn't know how to distinguish,nor create unique images that feeds and nourishes his materials. Creativily it is like he can only use one brush to paint a multitude of programmatic images.One brush that got bigger as time went on,losing nuance and detail.
 Glass at his best February 4, 2000
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I agree with other reviewers: this recording is Philip Glass at his best and Kronos quartet is simply superb. The quartets on this CD are some of the most beautiful pieces of classical music I have ever heard.
Erratum February 1, 2000
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
In my previous review i quoted "Goreky" for his third symphony... Of course one should read "GORECKI" instead... Henryk Gorecki... His 3rd Symphony should be listened at least once (it is enough to fall in love whith it !) by anyone who like P. Glass music, and/or the Kronos Quartet... Sorry for the mistake ... enjoy this music !
Intense, passionate, moving! I love this CD! January 5, 2000
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I recently heard a piece from this CD on Delta Airlines Symphonic Music station. I was so intrigued I ripped the info from Delta's in flight magazine so I could track down the correct CD. I located it and have been playing it over and over ever since. I love the entire CD, but particularly track #5. This is my first foray into classical/symphonic music. I look forward to discovering other equally moving and beautiful musical works.
Simplicity of string music, and evocations January 4, 2000
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
An excelent disc in this (relatively) new american music, one may call minimalist music, where the repetitions and the arpeges create an environment full of emotions, where the composer is not afraid of the simplicity of the writing, the periodicity of the music. A very exiting and evocating music... Steve Reich, John Adams, and Goreky (3rd Symphony) also composed music of this kind. And also Riley and Satie (vexations). You may also look for other masterpieces of Glass...
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