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Summary: marvelous composer
Comment: It makes me happy that I can hear what Phillip Glass heared when he composed the music, there are feelings of mystery and nostalgy.
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Summary: Absolutely AMAZING!
Comment: i first heard the Metamorphosis's on Battlestar Galactica and was instantly blown away. This CD is well worth the money! The music is incredibly powerful, moving, and just beautiful!
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Summary: A fan of both Glass and Battlestar - great music
Comment: I, too, heard the music playing in Starbuck's apartment in the Battlestar Galactica episode, "Valley of Darkness," and was instantly transfixed. But I'm a Philip Glass fan, so I wasn't too surprised when an internet search put the two together. (I actually have the Amazon reviews to thank for that.) I've been a fan of Glass ever since I my dad had me watch Koyaanisqatsi on PBS over 20 years ago. I'm not a trained musician, so I can't speak to the technical aspects or music theory, but I think the music on Solo Piano moving and rich. Glass has gotten me through a lot of studying and working over the years (my job calls for a lot of reading and writing), and the entire CD has been immensely enjoyable over the last few weeks - I've even used it for a long run or two. If you don't know Glass, know that when you've heard a bit of the piece, you've heard the core of what you'll hear throughout - it is, as people have said, minimalist, and some say, too repetitive. But if you are looking for more of what you heard on BSG, I think you'll like this CD - you'll get not only the full treatment of the Starbuck's apt. music (Metamorphosis No. 5), but great variations of that piece.
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Summary: Uninspiring rantings from a hack
Comment: More obtuse babbling from one of 20th centuries most pretentious compositional hacks. This is not an album for someone who enjoys interesting music - mainly because there isn't anything of interest here outside of the painfully predictable jargon that Glass has become famous for.
Of course, this is not to say that Glass hasn't written anything tolerable, or even good - The Hours is a fine soundtrack if bought at a garage sale bargain price, copied, and resold to whatever poor sap would fork-over more than .99 cents to pay for it.
If curiosity has the better of you, download it from a torrent. After the infection migrates from your HDD to your ears, you can turn off the offending drivel and delete it from your HDD, freeing up space for more deserving things in the process, like spam mail.
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Summary: I think I heard this once before!
Comment: Metamorphosis One - Five is repetative to say the least; however, there are slight variations in each successive piece. As one listens it is intriguing to notice the sometimes subtle variations on a theme that occur. Each piece is more complex than the next. Well worth the listening. If you are a pianist, I recommend Solo Piano for use as warm up exercises for more complex pieces to be played afterward.
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