Hourglass [2CD]

Simone Dinnerstein - Hourglass [2CD]

Philip Glass, a towering figure in New York's musical life in the latter half of the twentieth century and an essential voice of the minimalist movement, crafted soundscapes that seem made for the screen. In 2002, the director Stephen Daldry commissioned him to compose the score for his new film The Hours, bringing together- in the roles of three women living in three different eras-none other than Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Meryl Streep. For this study on womanhood and the passage of time, the American composer devised a score that then became emblematic of his late style. It is a veritable manifesto of his expressive simplicity, in which layers and motifs are in constant, subtle transformation, giving rise to a richly wrought polyphonic universe that beguiles us with it's expansive sonic textures.