References
- Lontano Records LNT105.
Credits
- Elinor Bennett: Harp.
- Producer: Gwyn L. Williams.
- Engineer: Mike Skeet.
- Editing: David Wright.
- Recorded at St Silas Church, St Silas Place, London NW5.
Tracks
1-7. John Metcalf "Harp Scrapbook" (20:24).
8. Arvo Part "Pari Intervallo" (4:25).
9. Robert ap huw "Hun gwenllian" (3:31).
10. Jeffrey Lewis "Dreams, Dances and Lullabies" (10.58).
11. Grace Williams "Hiraeth" (2:53).
12. Arvo Part "Spiegel in Spiegel" (9:17).
13. Robert Ap Huw "Gosteg yr Halen" (3:20).
14. Philip Glass "Metamorphosis No. 2" (7:54).
15. Philip Glass "Wichita Vortex Sutra" (7:54).
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Notes
These two works from Philip Glass's "Solo Piano" have been transcribed by Elinor Bennett with the permission of the composer.
"Metamorphosis No. 2" is from the "Five Metamorphoses" extracted from music composed for film and stage works based on Kafka's story. It's musical language and that of "Wichita Vortex Sutra" is typical of the style now familiar to us in Glass's work. Characterised by the use of ostinati, restricted melodic and harmonic means and simple technical devices like arpeggios, it achieves its impact by its very directness and powerful rhythmic drive.
The bright, sharp, repetitive patterns of Glass's music are usually labelled minimalist, although this is a term Glass himself rejects. Born in Baltimore, in 1937, he began violin, flute and piano studies at an early age. After reading philosophy in Chicago, he went on to study at the Julliard school in New York. His teachers included Darius Milhaud, Vincent Persichetti and later in Paris, Nadia Boulanger. On returning to New York after a period of research in North Africa, India and the Himalayas, Glass's distinctive style emerged. By 1973 he had composed a large number of new works many of them for his own group, The Philip Glass Ensemble.
John Metcalf
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