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title: "The Hours: Music from the Motion Picture"
brand: "philip glass"
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# The Hours: Music from the Motion Picture

**Brand:** philip glass
**Price:** 25789CFA
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- **What is this?** The Hours: Music from the Motion Picture by philip glass
- **How much does it cost?** 25789CFA with free shipping
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Product description          All our books are brand new. We ship worldwide             .com          How better to score a movie that takes place in three tangentially related time periods than with music that strives for timelessness? The hallmarks of Philip Glass's minimalism serve The Hours well. The film, based on Michael Cunningham's novel, tells the stories of three women--Virginia Woolf in the early 1920s, a housewife just after World War II, and a book editor in the present--whose days relate in different ways to Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. Yet rather than construct a sonic montage of these three time periods (perhaps some Ravel for Woolf, some Max Steiner for the housewife, some Enya for the editor), Hours producer Scott Rudin turned to Glass, a contemporary-classical composer who has had a substantial side career in film, most notably with Koyaanisqatsi. The familiar Glass sounds--the endlessly layered violins, the static melodies, the glacial rhythms--all lend a consistent aural foundation to a story that moves fluidly back and forth in time. The music is scored for orchestra, string quartet, and piano. Those plentiful strings lend a thick cushion, a triumph of tonal suspension, for the piano part, which Michael Riesman plays coolly, emphasizing what are often single notes separated by thoughtful silences, as well as short sets of scales cascading in slow motion. Not only will these compositional themes be familiar to fans of Glass's work, so too will several of the melodies. Some sections of the score are derived from his albums Glassworks and Solo Piano and from his opera Satyagraha--which, incidentally, involved the stories of three legendary men active in different eras. --Marc Weidenbaum

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    So glad this was put on vinyl
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2023*

Wonderful that it was put on vinyl. Now if we can Kundun on vinyl 🙏

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Beautiful and a Bit Melancholic
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 29, 2020*

I've seen the movie. It was okay, but mildly depressing. I've read the book, which was better ( and made me a fan of  all of Michael Cunningham's work as a writer). But the best thing about "The Hours" is the soundtrack. This is perfect music for painting, writing, or just chilling out for relaxation. It is evocative, dramatic, wistful, pensive, and non-obtrusive. I like Phillip Glass but not all of his work moves me like this .It does not feature his usual stuttering keyboard lines, his trademark chords and chord changes, or even his usual style. This is more of a string quartet with keyboards sound, a bit Baroque but  not a bore. I find it especially useful as background music. I may have already written a review of this album; I'm on my second copy so Amazon prompted me to review it again. I also listened to the piano version of these tracks on YT but this is so much more textured and enjoyable. It's one of my favorite movie soundtrack albums. Excellent quality all the way around and worth every penny spent.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Female angst
  

*by M***I on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 15, 2014*

I am somewhat glad to NOT have viewed this at the theatre, as I feel that I would have had the need to leave my seat for a break periodically.  This subjectivity is not meant to be a critical review of the movie, nor of the music of Philip Glass.  I enjoy(ed) both immensely.  Much of what the movie portrayed seemed to come home to me, reminding me of a painfully critical part of my own life.  How these themes within the movie dispel romantic fantasies thrust onto young women, yet tell a painfully tragic truth of how life really can be within the confines of being lovers, wives, and mothers.  OOOFF!  The movie hit me like an emotional migraine.However, the music of Philip Glass is transcending, plying its non-verbal intuition rather surreptitiously, sneaking up on your level of hearing before you realize that maybe you are breathing with its platitudes, that maybe your heartbeats are matching the heartbeat of the dramas which unfold within this real as life music.Some don't care for Philip Glass' music.  His work really works here.  The movements from gentle to intense and back again morph well.  I enjoy listening to it for a quiet evening alone.  I like listening to it away from the movie and its components.  The music seems to have its own personality in this capacity.  See what you feel.

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