Waiting for the Barbarians

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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0801837003925 Label: Orange Mountain Music Manufacturer: Orange Mountain Music Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Orange Mountain Music Release Date: 2008-05-26 Running Time: 133 Studio: Orange Mountain Music
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Cough, cough, cough! Comment: I saw this opera 'cough' at the Barbican on 'cough' June 12th 2008. I had looked forward 'cough' to it for a very long time and enjoyed 'cough' it very much. I waited until afterwards to purchase the 'cough' cd and didn't listen to any sounds clips. I know this is a live recording 'cough, cough' but I would have thought that today any audience noise 'cough' could be removed. A-tishoo! I really enjoy the opera and Philip Glass is my hero but 'cough' the recording of this opera is 'cough, cough' appalling. I actually counted over 147 coughs and sneezes between both acts. It is so distracting I dont 'cough' think I will play this cd very often. A great shame. 'cough, cough. Excuse me! Customer Rating: Summary: Greatest Living Composer Comment: While not up to the dizzying standards of his best opera, 'Akhnaten', or other great recent work, such as the sublime 'Book of Longing', this is still a powerful work. Where the opera falls down is in the rather prosaic, leaden scoring for the lead voices (a common flaw in Glass's recent, more narrative operas), but the composer more than makes up for this with his ecstatic choral writing and adept instrumental orchestration. While not Glass's finest work, this flawed work still packs a wallop - dark, shimmering and trascendent, this is minimalism at its best and again underlines Glass's position as the world's greatest living composer. More Reviews