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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0074643967228
Format: Box set
Label: CBS Records Masterworks
Manufacturer: CBS Records Masterworks
Number Of Discs: 3
Publisher: CBS Records Masterworks
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Studio: CBS Records Masterworks
Disc 1:- Satyagraha/Act 1 - Tolstoy. Scene 1 - Philip Glass
- Satyagraha/Act 1 - Tolstoy. Scene 2 - Philip Glass
- Satyagraha/Act 1 - Tolstoy. Scene 3 - Philip Glass
Disc 2:- Satyagraha/Act 2 - Tagore. Scene 1
- Satyagraha/Act 2 - Tagore. Scene 2
- Satyagraha/Act 2 - Tagore. Scene 3
Disc 3:- Satyagraha/Act 3 - King, Pt. 1
- Satyagraha/Act 3 - King, Pt. 2
- Satyagraha/Act 3 - King, Pt. 3
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Editorial Review:
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Satyagraha remains, decades after its composition, one of Philip Glass's most traditional works. An emphasis on strings and on courtly, European-toned small choruses lends the opera a sense of musical familiarity rarely evidenced in the composer's extensive catalog. The libretto, though written in Sanskrit, is often mistakable, sonorously, for Italian. Satyagraha's relative independence from the internecine Indian raga-like patterns of the composer's other long-form work is particularly ironic given the opera's subject: Mahatma Ghandi, whose native country's ritual culture and spiritual heritage have long informed Glass's music. This is no dramatic biography; following a mythological gambit, the scenes focus on a handful of specific events in Ghandi's long life (the construction of a communal farm, his tumultuous arrival in Durban, the publication of the weekly broadside Indian Opinion). Pointedly, the opera is an international affair, each of its three acts referencing a major cultural figure: Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore, and Martin Luther King Jr. The music is most interesting when Glass draws parallels between his patented, minimalist patterns and standard classical mode. --Marc Weidenbaum
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Satyagraha is one of Glass' best operas with Einstein on the Beach. The music is extremely powerful and very well composed. Anyone liking Glass must buy this masterpiece.
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...that makes this recording so compelling.
The first 2 acts are early Glass minimalism. The third act's music is trancendent.
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This was the first Glass CD I picked up, and I still find it immensely powerful and quite moving. It seems to divide long time Glass admirers, and honestly I don't know why. I feel an appreciation for Glass's earlier music, and I like the later stuff as well. I feel that this opera is one of his most majestic, moving ones. It usually gets dismissed by people as a "transitional" work, but it doesn't mean it's a lousy work. Many of the segments are truly outstanding, like the final third of the ... Read More
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The subject in this beautifully, bizarre opera is the early life of Mahatma Gandhi and the text is a selection of verses from the Bhagavadgita, sung in the original Sanskrit and used as another strand in the complex repetitive web of sound. The result is undeniably repetitiveness, becoming static; a good deal of this conveys energy as well as power. The writing for the chorus is often thrilling, and individual characters emerge in only a shadowy way. The recording, using the device of over dubbing, ... Read More
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Spectacular. Profoundly moving. Spiritual. My favorite Glass work. Everyone should own this. Satyagraha, for me, is a sacred text.
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