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Philip Glass - The Hours [Original Soundtrack]
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Album Details

Title: The Hours [Original Soundtrack]
Artist: Philip Glass
Release Date: 12/10/2002
Label: Nonesuch
Album Type(s): soundtrack
UPCs: 075597969320, 075597969368
Genre: Soundtrack
Styles: World Fusion, Minimalism, Avant-Garde, Film Music, Original Score
Moods: Ambitious, Cerebral, Circular, Epic, Complex, Elegant, Restrained, Sophisticated, Uncompromising, Calm/Peaceful, Reserved
Total Copies: 0
Members Wishing: 0
Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

Track Listings

  1. The Poet Acts :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  2. Morning Passages :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  3. Something She Has to Do :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  4. For Your Own Benefit :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  5. Vanessa and the Changelings :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  6. I'm Going to Make a Cake :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  7. An Unwelcome Friend :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  8. Dead Things :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  9. The Kiss :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  10. Why Does Someone Have to Die? :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  11. Tearing Herself Away :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  12. Escape! :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  13. Choosing Life :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman
  14. The Hours :: Lyric Quartet, Michael Riesman

Additional Releases

YearTypeLabelCatalog #
2005CDNonesuch
2002CDNonesuch79693

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Review

The score for the movie adaptation of Michael Cunningham's -The Hours, composed by Philip Glass. The music is somewhat continuous, all built upon the same basic motives. The repetition of a three-note phrase is key to the course of the whole, emerging time and time again as the framework for variations around which the rest of the music is arranged. Beyond the simple three-note bits, repetition in general stands as an important part of the music, with the various works eventually dovetailing together in the same basic framework, bringing a sense of return as they come up. The movie features three separate stories of women, all interlinked in the same Virginia Woolf novel, whose lives share recurring themes with one another's. The music stands here to make an auditory note of the parallels with its repetition. The sounds stay relatively mundane for the majority of the work, mirroring the everyday lives which form the basis of the characters' struggles, but it can also go quite dark for periods, touching on the suicidal tendencies held by the various characters in the story. Standing alone, this album might seem rather lackluster with its general sense of dreariness and the unstopping repetitions, despite the prime performance by the Lyric Quartet. Alongside the movie or the novel, however, the score holds a deeper meaning, fitting in with the moods of the story quite well. ~ Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide

Credits

NameCredits
Andrew DudmanAssistant Engineer
Chris LaurenceDouble Bass
Christian RutledgeStudio Assistant
Dan BoraAssistant Engineer
Dave ArchPiano
David DanielsCello
Don ChristensenProducer
Gregg SchaufeldEditorial Coordinator
Héctor CastilloEngineer
Ichiho NishikiAssistant Engineer, Editing
Isobel GriffithsOrchestra Contractor
Jake JacksonAssistant Engineer
Jim KellerExecutive Producer
John BradburyOrchestra Leader
Jonathan AllenEngineer
Kara BilofPost Production
Karina BenznickiProduction Supervisor
Kurt MunkasciProducer
Lyric QuartetPerformer
Michael CunninghamLiner Notes
Michael RiesmanProducer, Arranger, Liner Notes, Piano
Nick BarrViola
Nick IngmanConductor
Nico MuhlyAssistant, Arranger
Philip GlassExecutive Producer
Rolf WilsonViolin
Scott RudinExecutive Producer
Tony LewisMusic Editor