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« Reply #15 on: 11:59:32, 29-08-2007 »
So I'm starting to get the idea that Gidon Kremer is the man to look for?  Cheesy

I have the John Adams violin concerto on Naxos (Chloe Hanslip) and I really like it. Is the Glass concerto in any way similar? (Bear in mind that I know next to nothing about minimalists so I don't have many points of comparison.)
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« Reply #16 on: 12:20:41, 29-08-2007 »
Quote from: IgnorantRockFan on 11:59:32, 29-08-2007
I have the John Adams violin concerto on Naxos (Chloe Hanslip) and I really like it. Is the Glass concerto in any way similar?

No, I wouldn't call the Adams concerto minimalistic. The musical material of this concerto is very diverse. The Glass concerto is really a minimalistic piece, in my opinion. The Glass concerto ends with a slow coda. The Adams concerto ends with a fast movement. I like the Glass concerto because it's very simple and lively, I like the Adams concerto because it's very colourful and a bit mysterious (especially the second movement with those Parsifal-like bells).
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« Reply #17 on: 12:32:46, 29-08-2007 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 11:51:45, 29-08-2007
I suppose you mean John Adams's Violin Concerto, t-i-n? I don't believe Gidon Kremer made recording of the Glass concerto on Elektra Nonesuch.

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« Reply #18 on: 12:59:04, 29-08-2007 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 09:30:12, 29-08-2007


The piece we're talking about is Company by Philip Glass (based on a text by Samuel Beckett). You can listen to fragments from it over here:

http://www.amazon.com/Glass-Violin-concerto-Philip/

Ah but IRF says the clip is from Virgin so it'll be performed by London Chamber Orchestra
conducted by Christopher Warren-Green, at Amazon here:

Virgin, Glass, Company


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« Reply #19 on: 14:31:55, 29-08-2007 »
Quote from: John W on 12:59:04, 29-08-2007
Ah but IRF says the clip is from Virgin so it'll be performed by London Chamber Orchestra
conducted by Christopher Warren-Green, at Amazon here:

Virgin, Glass, Company

This was, together with the first recording of Einstein on the Beach, my first disc with minimal music. I never heard another piece by David Heath afterwards. Has he composed other interesting pieces?
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