{"product_id":"801837014129","title":"Philip Glass - Glass: King Lear \/ Various - Import CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eCredits:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Glass\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2019, Philip Glass composed incidental music for a Broadway production of Shakespeares King Lear, starring none other than Glenda Jackson in the title role. The music is for string quartet. His score has spawned an independent King Lear Overture (not the same as the two-minute Overture heard on this release), and now a recording of the entire work on the composers Orange Mountain Music label, with the various cuts put together into continuous music for his handpicked quartet. Glass is certainly to be commended for consistently broadening the stylistic range in his music, even into his 80s. This score mostly harks back to his earlier repetitive style, but there is a new wrinkle: the requirements of incidental music, with its shifting action on stage, precludes the use of Glass typically large-scale structures. He changes gears effectively with music that, though simple, evokes the action and characters of the play. Glass even tries his hand at a few Shakespeare songs, sung in a slightly punked-out style by Ruth Wilson as Cordelia. The only long-form piece is the penultimate Here Is My Pledge, beginning with that line by the Duke of Albany that begins the final terrible unraveling. Glass mood here is somber, and the music imparts a tragic calm to the carnage playing out on stage. Beautifully recorded, as usual, this is another strong work of Glass old age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.King Lear~Overture\u003cbr\u003e2.King Lear~These Late Eclipses\u003cbr\u003e3.King Lear~Goneril's House\u003cbr\u003e4.King Lear~Drinking Song\u003cbr\u003e5.King Lear~Fools had ne'er less grace in a year\u003cbr\u003e6.King Lear~So Be My Lord\u003cbr\u003e7.King Lear~Let Me Not Be Mad\u003cbr\u003e8.King Lear~Entr'Acte\u003cbr\u003e9.King Lear~Approach thou Beacon\u003cbr\u003e10.King Lear~I Heard Myself Proclaimed\u003cbr\u003e11.King Lear~Winter's Not Gone Yet\u003cbr\u003e12.King Lear~Rumbling Storm Part 1\u003cbr\u003e13.King Lear~Rumbling Storm Part 2\u003cbr\u003e14.King Lear~Omen of the Storm\u003cbr\u003e15.King Lear~Lear and the Storm\u003cbr\u003e16.King Lear~Storm Unleashes\u003cbr\u003e17.King Lear~Avenge Gloucester's Eyes\u003cbr\u003e18.King Lear~Rumbling Storm Reprise\u003cbr\u003e19.King Lear~Remnants of the Storm\u003cbr\u003e20.King Lear~Gloucester \u0026amp; Edmund\u003cbr\u003e21.King Lear~Prayer in Storm\u003cbr\u003e22.King Lear~Cordelia's Prayer\u003cbr\u003e23.King Lear~Military Music Part 1\u003cbr\u003e24.King Lear~Military Music Part 2\u003cbr\u003e25.King Lear~Edgar's Mention of the Gods\u003cbr\u003e26.King Lear~How Does My Royal Lord\u003cbr\u003e27.King Lear~It Raineth Every Day\u003cbr\u003e28.King Lear~Yet Better Thus\u003cbr\u003e29.King Lear~Here is My Pledge\u003cbr\u003e30.King Lear~Epilogue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orange Mountain Music (OMM)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48107963580705,"sku":"801837014129","price":3790.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8482\/2076\/files\/801837014129.jpg?v=1708324834","url":"https:\/\/cdsvinyljapan.com\/products\/801837014129","provider":"CDs Vinyl Japan Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}