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Glass: Music in Twelve Parts | 
 enlarge | Artist: Philip Glass
Creator: Philip Glass Ensemble
Label: Orange Mountain Music
Category: Music
List Price: $21.99
Buy New: $19.49
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 57373
Format: Box Set, Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.9
MPN: 49
UPC: 801837004922
EAN: 8018370049224
ASIN: B001BXSJRQ
Release Date: July 21, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Part 1 | | • | Part 2 | | • | Part 3 |
Disc 2
| • | Part 4 | | • | Part 5 | | • | Part 6 |
Disc 3
| • | Part 7 | | • | Part 8 | | • | Part 9 |
Disc 4
| • | Part 10 | | • | Part 11 | | • | Part 12 |
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Product Description
This four disc boxed set of Philip Glass' seminal Minimalist work is offered as a new recording by Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble from 2006.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Huge investment with little payoff January 4, 2009
OneLove (so fla)
2 1/2
This excessively sustained study in subtle flux is an acquired taste if there ever was one, especially considering the perseverance needed to take it in all at once as suggested. Anyone not admitting audio fatigue after one complete sitting is either lying, a highly trained monk, or on some serious mind-altering substance. It is apparent that what started out as an enjoyable experiment (tracks one and two) became a heavily indulged egotistical challenge for the composer. After an initial immersion wears down and the majority of shallow, methodical, experimental repetition takes hold, it seems obvious Glass was imposing his will on traditional structure mainly for superficial reasons. It is a pleasure to get lost down audio pockets created all over this thing, but almost always the momentum is derailed when overlong mechanical manipulations produce an oppressive apathy.
 The better of the two versions.... March 31, 2008
Grigory's Girl (NYC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the original version of Philip Glass's magnum opus (well, one of many magnum opuses) Music in Twelve Parts. He has since re-recorded it, and this old version is out of print. I personally prefer this version. While it may not be as technically proficient as the latter version, it's rawer (as raw as Glass can be) and more human than the latter version. It's an epic work, one piece in twelve parts, with every part running on average 15 minutes, usually longer. It is not a slight undertaking to listen to it. It's a committment, like watching a Tarkovsky film, watching Bela Tarr's Satantango, watching Fassbinder's Berlin Alexanderplatz, reading Tolstoy's War and Peace or watching a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion. All of Glass's work is like that, but his early stuff (and his operas) require much from the listener, but if you give, you will receive. This is one of my personal favorites of Glass's work, along with Satyagraha, Glassworks, Dances No. 1-5, and Two Pages. If you can, listen to it all the way through, or at least four parts at a time. It's really quite spectactular.
Headphone Commute Review January 21, 2008
Headphone Commute
Orange Mountain Music, a label created by Kurt Munkacsi, producer of most Philip Glass recordings, re-[re]-releases a new recording of the classic Music In Twelve Parts as a set of twelve individual [iTunes only] files (upgraded to 256 kbps), scheduled at one per month in celebration of the great composer's 70th birthday year. I grabbed the first two parts from iTunes (at $1.99 a piece), and became instantly entranced in the hypnotic repetitive patterns that explored the flow of melody, and just when I would "tune into" the presented concept, it would change like a school of rapidly swimming tiny fish. Throughout the pieces I find myself drifting in and out of consciousness, and after twenty minutes (per track) I feel relaxed and refreshed, like from a lengthy meditation. Not surprisingly wanting more, I looked up an earlier, 1996 recording of the same work. Although the three disc set is offered by some retailers at over forty dollars, I was shocked to see the entire performance available in MP3 format (also at 256 kbps, yet DRM-free) from Amazon at only $9.99. What a steal - DONE! I must comment that I like this older recording to be better - it is warmer, more organic, and is a tiny bit slower. My recommendation would be to skip the marketing gimmick and head over straight to Amazon, to try the digital rip before you commit to the entire album. Perfect head-cleaner for a busy mind. Prescribed for musicians at a piece per day, prior to recording sessions, preferably on an empty stomach.
 One and two: worthwhile; Three to twelve: forget February 5, 2007
mhouse (Phoenix, AZ United States)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
It takes a person with stamina to be able to listen to Music in 12 Parts in one or several sittings. A condensed version on 1 CD would suffice, and then, it would be difficult to listen to as well. I am not a musician so I can only peripherally enjoy the musicianship. Gee whiz, it must have been difficult to play those instruments for that length of time. As for "music" it is hard to categorize as such. Not much changes in many of these long pieces, each averaging about 17 minutes. It IS minimal in that regard, which doesn't bother me. It's just that so many of the pieces here are not pleasant to the ear.
Being a Glass fan, I can, however, highly recommend parts 1 and 2. Part one is what Philip Glass intended as "Music in 12 Parts" until he played it for someone and they said "great...how do the other 11 sound?" which intrigued him enough to continue with 11 more parts. I rarely if ever venture into CDs 2 and 3. But, parts 1 and 2 are delicious, melodious and enjoyable.
I paid $12 at a used CD store and it's worth that to add to an already extensive Glass collection. If you find it under $20 AND you are a Glass fan, buy it.
Wonderful torture music, buy the Hours instead August 3, 2006
SRS (Oxford Ohio)
9 out of 28 found this review helpful
This stuff could be used at Guantanamo, unlike Glass' wonderful Hours soundtrack. I love water, but not when it's dripped over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and overand over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and overand over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and overand over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for for up to 19 minutes per track. I have this an extra star because the performers are competant, although how they can play this stuff is beyond me.
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