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The Romantic Connection

Kodály, Glass and Bruckner,
reviewed by GIUSEPPE PENNISI

 

Philip Glass and Anton Bruckner may look like an odd couple on the billboard of a concert program centered on the two of them. The former is an American globalized minimalist still very active in the 21st century. The latter is a nineteenth century Austrian strictly Roman Catholic composer who spent most of his life between home and church in a small village. He moved to Vienna only when he was forty five and worked essentially on organ compositions and nine symphonies — the last was left unfinished; even in Vienna, his life was divided between home and church...

Copyright © 14 January 2018 Giuseppe Pennisi,
Rome, Italy

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ZOLTAN KODALY

PHILIP GLASS

ANTON BRUCKNER

TEATRO DELL'OPERA

ROBERTO GABBIANI

CHORAL MUSIC

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

PIANO MUSIC

ROME

ITALY

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