Glass / Wilson - Monsters of Grace
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Label: Orange Mountain Music
Cat No: OMM0041
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 26th October 2007
Contents
Artists
Philip Glass EnsembleAbout
This world premiere recording, with a 26-page booklet featuring Wilson’s original Monsters of Grace sketches, presents a transcendent Glass score which marries exotic sounds to the 13th century Sufi mystic poet Jelaluddin Rumi’s words (translated/adapted from the original Persian by Coleman Banks) in a completely unique theatrical experience. Rumi’s poems are meditations on the range of human experience: inspiration for Art, companionship and compassion, ruminations on earthly pleasures, questions of heaven, the secrets of life, joy, mortality, recognition of the self, and the nature of God.
As were all the other Glass/Wilson collaborations, Monsters of Grace is ultimately forward looking and ambitious despite the difficulties and frustrations that occurred during its creation, mostly due to the challenge of new digital technology (the animation was ultimately extremely expensive, time consuming and inflexible). So this new recording represents a unique opportunity to re-assess a very unusual work.
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