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Current Listening Vol VII

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Current Listening Vol VII

A new thread for the same subject matter.

The previous thread, Current Listening Vol VI has become another huge file and slow to load. Since this particular thread is the most popular one on the site, we have created this new volume to continue posting.

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Links to previous Current Listening threads:
Current Listening Vol I
Current Listening Vol II
Current Listening Vol III
Current Listening Vol IV
Current Listening Vol V
Current Listening Vol VI
 
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Wow. I admire anyone who has the sustained concentration to listen to an entire box of Philip Glass. (I'm serious.)
I haven't listened to the entire box yet.Just getting through the first 2 discs was a challenge.I find listening to Glass is best done in small doses.I find that I am enjoying the stuff that is done in a more recognizable classical vein ie;the string quartets,symphonies etc.
 
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Heitor Villa-Lobos: Fantasía for soprano saxophone and chamber orchestra
John Harle, soprano saxophone
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner

This twelve-minute concerto is frankly more memorable than the Adams, although it very nearly has the opposite problem of the Adams: it feels like more could have been done with the material in the second and third movements, which both last less than three minutes each, and even the first could have been more developed. But really at the end, I don't feel short-changed at all. Lovely piece.

 
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I haven't listened to the entire box yet.Just getting through the first 2 discs was a challenge.I find listening to Glass is best done in small doses.I find that I am enjoying the stuff that is done in a more recognizable classical vein ie;the violin sonatas,symphonies etc.
The Glass violin concerto 1 is a legitimate great work, I think. Glass is out of fashion compared to the likes of Reich and La Monte Young, and I definitely prefer the other guys from that school more but the VC is wonderful.
 
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Szymanowski, second string quartet.



A really beautiful work. A first movement with serene yet spooky melodies floating over a skittering accompaniment, a sarcastic burlesque central movement, and a slow, throbbing finale. Great skill and inventiveness in this music.
 
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