Exceeded Harmony Mix #2

Behold the second installment of my classical mix series.

I made this mix today for listening while emptying out my room (I'm moving away for college in precisely 5 days). It is very nice, I hope you enjoy it as well.

Tracklist:

1. John Cage (1912-1992) - In a Landscape

2. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) - Interlude (Passacaglia) from Peter Grimes

3. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Chromatic Fugue in D minor, BWV 903

4. Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) - Glagolitic Mass: Introduction

5. Percy Grainger (1882-1961) - Green Bushes, passacaglia for 22 instruments or orchestra

6. Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) - Concert Champêtre, FP 49 - I. Allegro molto

7. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Violin Sonata No. 5 in F major, "Spring" Op. 24: II. Adagio molto espressivo

8. Philip Glass (b. 1937) - Massman, from "Naqoyqatsi"

9. Eric Whitacre (b. 1970) - Sleep

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Philip Glass - Naqoyqatsi

Philip Glass (b. 1937)

Naqoyqatsi, music for the film by Godfrey Reggio

Yo-Yo Ma, solo cello

I just watched this for the first time last night. I've been a huge fan of the first two films for a long time and a bigger fan of Glass's music for them, but somehow I never got around to watching this.

I'll just skip the film review and just say EVERYONE should see this trilogy. It's beautiful, it's rousing and it's terrifying, and absolutely worth your time.

Glass delivers more glassy goodness on this score but adding the voice of the solo cello, which is something that has proved extremely fruitful for Glass recently, and it takes the score to new heights of beauty. I thought the music was good but not as great as the other two scores as I was watching it, but it has that strange power of growing of you and I'm completely in love with it. In just one day!

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Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach

Philip Glass (b. 1937)

Einstein on the Beach, opera in four acts (1976)

Music and Lyrics: Philip Glass

Design & Direction: Robert Wilson

The Philip Glass Ensemble

Michael Riesman, conductor

3 discs; 20 tracks; 3 hours 20 minutes

It's been at least three years since I first heard Einstein on the Beach, and I still, for the life of me, cannot figure out what it is about. Suffice it to say it is one of the most unique works in both operatic and in 20th-century repertoire. This is a good introduction for Glass newbies if they take it in small doses, and it is probably, with Music in 12 Parts, the greatest statement Glass made during his purely minimalist period.

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