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  • Philip Glass

  • Music in Contrary Motion (1969)

  • Dunvagen Music Publishers Inc (World)
  • Organ
  • 15 min

Programme Note

Contrary Motion, composed in 1969, is a work for solo organ in which pedal points add a functional harmony (A minor) and there is something faintly Bach-ian about its stern, rigorous counterpoint. Contrary Motion was written in what Glass calls "open form" — it never really ends, it just stops. The expanding figures upon which it is constructed could, theoretically, continue augmenting forever. Should an interpreter care to take it that far, a performance lasting hours, even days, would be possible.

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Discography

Alter Ego Performs Philip Glass

Alter Ego Performs Philip Glass
  • Label
    Orange Mountain Music
  • Catalogue Number
    omm0034
  • Ensemble
    Alter Ego
  • Released
    1st February 2007
Title Unavailable
  • Label
    Oehms
  • Catalogue Number
    OC1827
  • Soloist
    Iveta Apkalna, Organ

Music in the shape of a Square

Music in the shape of a Square
  • Label
    Stradivarius
  • Catalogue Number
    STR 33602
  • Soloist
    Manuel Zurria, flute / Paolo Ravaglia, clarinet / Francesco Peverini, violin / Francesco Dillon, cello / Oscar Pizzo, keyboard / Gianluca Ruggeri, marimba