Philip Glass

The colorfully repetitive-yet-evolving arpeggios here offer a very listenable introduction to minimalism. Each track picks up where the last one left off, creating tight cohesion from start to finish and eventually taking listeners far from where they began. One of minimalism's defining albums.

From every angle, Glassworks comes across as a tease. Composer Philip Glass hasn't written
anything that sounds so "classical," in the Brahms-Schubert-Beethoven tradition, since he
helped foment minimalism in the Sixties. Glassworks includes pieces for acoustic piano and
for an ensemble, pieces with standard four-bar phrases rather than Glass' usual raga-style
rhythm cycles, pieces with crescendos and diminuendos, even pieces with mel... More >