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SMASH HIT Classical fans will love Philip Glass' 10-disc set Glass Box

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Release Date: Sep 30, 2008; Lead Performance: Philip Glass; Genre: Classical

The trouble for Philip Glass fans has always been this: Given the composer's huge output (more than 20 operas alone), where do you start? Packaged with an illuminating 191-page booklet, this 10-disc retrospective not only finally offers up a thick best-of (Koyaanisqatsi, two full symphonies, a disc of movie soundtracks), it helps you hear him in a new way. They call Glass a minimalist, given 
 the spell-weaving repetitive nature 
 of his works, but Glass Box so fully bursts with variety and noise and gorgeousness that, put together here, his music makes him sound like 
anything but. A
Download This: Listen to ''Koyaanisqatsi: The Grid'' at Rhapsody


Posted Sep 16, 2008
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