Glass/Wilson - Monsters of Grace

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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0801837004120 Label: Orange Mountain Music Manufacturer: Orange Mountain Music Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Orange Mountain Music Release Date: 2007-10-29 Running Time: 71 Studio: Orange Mountain Music
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Glass at his very best Comment: A long overdue release for Glass's 1997/8 opera. Dark, sinuous and exotically compelling this is a must for all Glass fans and the perfect intro for newcomers to his unique musical world. I'd give it six out of five stars if I could, this ranks up there with the best works from the master. Customer Rating: Summary: Best since Hydrogen Jukebox Comment: Philip Glass's output has perhaps become a little anodyne since the glory days of "Einstein...", "Satyagraha" and the wondrous "Akhnaten". One of his very best works from after that period was the Ginsberg stage song cycle "Hydrogen Jukebox", a haunting nocturnal evocation of the Great American Road-movie culture. If you enjoyed that then "Monsters of Grace" (director Robert Wilson's rich mishearing of the line "Ministers of Grace defend us" from "Hamlet"!) will most likely please you also. These 1998 settings of Sufi texts, many of them meditating on the twin poles of Art and Love, have that same shimmering delicacy and gentle poise which made the earlier cycle so satisfying. The musical imagery may not be so varied, but many of these songs have a clarity and point which deepens on closer acquaintance. For me, "Monsters of Grace" deserves a place amongst Glass's very best works: and neither recording nor the performers let him down. More Reviews