Animals in Love, Philip Glass, Music CD

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Animals in Love


1	Swans Take Flight 2:51
2	The Bath 1:50
3	The Gaze, The Scents 2:34
4	The Battle 5:18
5	Ballet of the Birds 3:24
6	The Birth of the Fawn 2:38
7	The Peacock and the Japanese Cranes 3:32
8	The Grebe's Race on Water 3:20
9	The Kangaroos 1:13
10	From Insects to Whales 3:29
11	The Happy Couples 2:26
12	The Orangutans and the Small Ducks 3:09
13	From Gazelles to Kangaroos 3:00
14	The Return of the Animals 2:05
15	The Swans Return/End Title 4:09

Editorial Reviews

Philip Glass' original score for Laurent Charbonnier's Animals in Love is one of those beautiful soundtracks for what seems to be an odd film -- until you sit down and actually watch it. The way Glass' music, written for a chamber orchestra, flows in and out of these images underscores their actually touching moments and picks up on the human sense of strangeness when encountering the animals' mating habits, understanding that such encounters are not merely novel, but at time times reach the profound. Certainly some of his trademark tropes are here, but he's so far beyond most of those now in his method of composing that they are used merely for cinematic effect, not as compositional fundamentals. What Glass reveals about himself in this score is that he's at the very peak of his own powers as a film composer; he understands not only what's on the screen, but where viewers locate themselves in the process of seeing, making for an intuitive, sometimes dramatic piece of music that stands on its own very well. Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

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Animals in Love


1	Swans Take Flight 2:51
2	The Bath 1:50
3	The Gaze, The Scents 2:34
4	The Battle 5:18
5	Ballet of the Birds 3:24
6	The Birth of the Fawn 2:38
7	The Peacock and the Japanese Cranes 3:32
8	The Grebe's Race on Water 3:20
9	The Kangaroos 1:13
10	From Insects to Whales 3:29
11	The Happy Couples 2:26
12	The Orangutans and the Small Ducks 3:09
13	From Gazelles to Kangaroos 3:00
14	The Return of the Animals 2:05
15	The Swans Return/End Title 4:09

All Music Guide

Philip Glass' original score for Laurent Charbonnier's Animals in Love is one of those beautiful soundtracks for what seems to be an odd film -- until you sit down and actually watch it. The way Glass' music, written for a chamber orchestra, flows in and out of these images underscores their actually touching moments and picks up on the human sense of strangeness when encountering the animals' mating habits, understanding that such encounters are not merely novel, but at time times reach the profound. Certainly some of his trademark tropes are here, but he's so far beyond most of those now in his method of composing that they are used merely for cinematic effect, not as compositional fundamentals. What Glass reveals about himself in this score is that he's at the very peak of his own powers as a film composer; he understands not only what's on the screen, but where viewers locate themselves in the process of seeing, making for an intuitive, sometimes dramatic piece of music that stands on its own very well. Thom Jurek

Product Details

Format: CD
Release Date: 03/11/2008
Label: ORANGE MOUNTAIN
Catalog No.: 40
UPC: 801837004021
Sales Rank: 31,449

Album Credits
Performance Credits
Philip Glass		Primary Artist
Michael Reisman		Conductor

Technical Credits
Philip Glass		Executive Producer
Don Christensen		Executive Producer
Kurt Munkasci		Executive Producer
Ichiho Nishiki		Mastering