Michael Riesman - Philip Glass: Music from 'The Hours' (2004)

Posted By: Designol
Date: Oct. 27, 2024

Michael Riesman - Philip Glass: Music from 'The Hours' (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 195 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 149 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Minimalism, Score | Label: Orange Mountain Music | # 0012 | Time: 00:57:25

In 2002 Philip Glass composed the soundtrack score to the Stephen Daldry film "The Hours". The film went on to receive 9 Acadamy Awards nominations, including one for ‘best score’. At the beginning of the film, Daldry depicts the timelessness of small daily events, how the real elements of life are patterns that repeat across time. The movie opens with three women from three different eras intercut, all doing similar things. There's Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) in 1923, a troubled young mother (Julianne Moore) in 1951 and a woman (Meryl Streep) in 2001 making preparations for a party later that evening. In one location flowers are bought, in another displayed, in another discarded. Philip Glass' score intensely underlines the images with a sense of strangeness and sympathy. Michael Riesman, Mr. Glass’ longtime musical director and producer of the film score recordings, created solo piano adaptations of the original score and has been performing them in concert.

Philip Glass' score for the film The Hours is very typical of Glass, with its nearly constant repetition and slowly evolving variations on a theme. It suits the moods of the film perfectly, reflecting mesmerically the inner thoughts and emotions of the characters, but remaining subservient to the film itself. Michael Riesman, a long-time associate of Glass, has transcribed the score of The Hours for piano. It wasn't hard for him to do this: the score prominently features the piano alongside the orchestra, and Riesman performed the piano part in the soundtrack recording. His solo piano version covers exactly the same music as on the soundtrack album, but to call it a "reduction" of an orchestral work would be unfair. Yes, it is one instrument instead of many, but just by the facts that it's a single performer being responsible for realizing the music and it's no longer an accompaniment to screen images, Riesman is able to add to it more expression and more life. Even though his tempos and the track times match the soundtrack almost exactly, he is able to take tiny liberties with the phrasing of themes so that the quiet desperation of the music isn't quite as desperate. It doesn't matter if he uses a larger array of dynamics and is not quite as strict with time. Whereas listening to the soundtrack without the film can be almost unbearably boring or depressing, depending on your state of mind, listening to Riesman's version is less so. Although the track titles make no sense without film, in this version, the music is able to stand on its own as a distinct creative work, with more vitality and wider-ranging sentiment than the soundtrack.

Review by Patsy Morita, Allmusic.com


Michael Riesman at Allmusic
Michael Riesman at Wiki



Philip Glass Biography
Philip Glass at Wiki


Tracklist:

01. The Poet Acts (03:37)
02. Morning Passages (05:48)
03. Something She Has To Do (03:31)
04. 'For Your Own Benefit' (01:55)
05. Vanessa and the Changelings (01:41)
06. 'I'm Going to Make a Cake' (03:46)
07. An Unwelcome Friend (04:29)
08. Dead Things (04:19)
09. The Kiss (04:34)
10. 'Why Does Someone Have to Die?' (03:41)
11. Tearing Herself Away (04:47)
12. Escape! (04:02)
13. Choosing Life (04:03)
14. The Hours (07:07)

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

Отчёт EAC об извлечении, выполненном 3. февраля 2011, 21:15

Philip Glass / Music from 'The Hours'

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Имя файла D:\EAC\Philip Glass - Music from 'The Hours'.wav

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CRC теста A390F81A
CRC копии A390F81A
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foobar2000 1.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2015-03-29 18:15:12

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Analyzed: Philip Glass / Music from 'The Hours'
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR11 -6.54 dB -20.20 dB 3:37 01-The Poet Acts
DR11 -1.39 dB -17.57 dB 5:48 02-Morning Passages
DR13 -4.19 dB -23.27 dB 3:32 03-Something She Has To Do
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DR12 -2.10 dB -19.59 dB 4:47 11-Tearing Herself Away
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Number of tracks: 14
Official DR value: DR12

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 433 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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