Coventry Telegraph: Celebrating pioneers of minimalism
April 4, 2014 A celebration of minimalist music takes place in Coventry this month when the Basel Symphony Orchestra calls in on the city as part of their first UK […]
Tag Archives: Glass Cello Concerto No. 2
BBC Music Magazine: Review of Philip Glass Cello Concerto No. 2 ‘Naqoyqatsi"
December 12, 2013 Philip Glass This Concerto grew from music Glass composed in 2001 for Naqoyqatsi, his third collaboration with the innovative documentary director, Godfrey Reggio. Glass had completed […]
Gramophone Magazine: Glass’s Naqoyqatsi score reworked as a cello concerto
December 12, 2013 Replete with images of war, death, conflict and pain, Naqoyqatsi is arguably the darkest and most disturbing depiction of ‘life out of balance’ in Godfrey Reggio’s […]
Toronto Star: Cincinnati Symphony’s excellent take on Philip Glass’s Cello Concerto No. 2: album review
May 6, 2013 Matt Haimovitz & Cincinnati Symphony Philip Glass, Cello Concerto No. 2 (Orange Mountain) 3.5/4 stars
Boston Globe: Matt Haimovitz ranges far and wide
May 11, 2012 It has been an eventful few months for cellist Matt Haimovitz. He began the year touring with pianist Christopher O’Riley in support of the duo’s recent CD, […]
William C White: My Week with Philip
April 4, 2012 It’s not so often that Cincinnati, OH feels like the center of the musical world, and it’s even rarer that I get to work with several of […]
Cincinnati.com: Haimovitz, CSO sing in haunting Glass concerto
April 1, 2012 Composer Philip Glass featured the cello in his soundtrack to the Godfrey Reggio film “Naqoyqatsi,” he said, because “we think of the cello as the instrument closest […]
