The two works on Philip Glass: The Concerto Project, Vol. 3, really only qualify for inclusion in the series by virtue of their names, since neither sounds like a conventional concerto; the Concerto Grosso sounds simply like an orchestral piece, and the version of the Concerto for Saxophone Quartet recorded here is scored only for the quartet, without orchestral accompaniment. The works, from the 1990s, are recognizably by Glass, but move in some directions that are less typical of his signature style of the late twentieth ...
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The two works on Philip Glass: The Concerto Project, Vol. 3, really only qualify for inclusion in the series by virtue of their names, since neither sounds like a conventional concerto; the Concerto Grosso sounds simply like an orchestral piece, and the version of the Concerto for Saxophone Quartet recorded here is scored only for the quartet, without orchestral accompaniment. The works, from the 1990s, are recognizably by Glass, but move in some directions that are less typical of his signature style of the late twentieth century. The dark-hued Concerto Grosso uses more dissonance than is usual in his work of that period in its first movement, and its middle movement is throbbingly Romantic. While each of the movements of the Concerto Grosso is monothematic and remains in the same key, the Concerto for Saxophone Quartet is altogether more mercurial, with shifting moods within the movements. It's also more contrapuntally conceived than much of Glass' music, and the independence of its lines sometimes...
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