La Belle et la Bete: An Opera by Philip Glass - Based on the Film by Jean Cocteau (Audio CD) [Signed]
Published by Nonesuch Records, New York, 1995
- Signed
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Condition: Used - Near fine
£ 81.36
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Floridly SIGNED in full & briefly INSCRIBED by composer PHILIP GLASS in gold marker on the slipcase front cover: "To Gerard. Philip Glass". This is a 2-CD box set, with 145-page booklet, housed in original pictorial slipcase, which matches the front cover of the audio CD. The slipcase is signed & inscribed by Philip Glass. La Belle et la Bete: An Opera by Philip Glass - Based on the Film by Jean Cocteau. Original music composed by Philip Glass. The Philip Glass Ensemble conducted by Michael Riesman. Produced by Kurt Munkacsi. Theatrical production by Jedediah Wheeler. Recorded and mixed at The Looking Glass Studios, New York. The Philip Glass Ensemble includes Philip Glass on keyboards, Michael Riesman (musical director, keyboards), Jon Gibson (soprano saxophone, flute), Martin Goldray (keyboards), Richard Peck (alto and soprano saxophone), Eleanor Sandresky (keyboards), & Andrew Sterman (flute, piccolo, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet). Also includes several additional guest musicians. The cast includes Janice Felty, mezzo-soprano (Beauty), Gregory Purnhage, baritone (The Beast, The Port Official, Avenant, Ardent), John Kuether, baritone (The Father, The Usurer), Ana Maria Martinez, soprano (Felice), Hallie Neill, soprano (Adelaide), & Zheng Zhou, baritone (Ludovic). Contains almost an hour & a half of music. Libretto (in French). La Belle et la Bete, aka Beauty & the Beast. In an interview with Jonathan Cott (printed in the enclosed booklet), Philip Glass stated: "I think that at a certain point of your life you start doing work you've been thinking about for a long time. In the case of La Belle et la Bête and my other Jean Cocteau projects - Orphée and Les Enfants Terribles - I'm finally doing pieces I've been wanting to do for at least twenty years. To me, La Belle is Cocteau's most complete statement about the entire creative process. The film is clearly an allegorical story. We can take it as a fairy tale, a love story, and as a representation of the major preoccupation of Cocteau's life. Many young people today know it only as the "Disney" animated fairy tale (which I haven't seen). But the story interests me less as a fairy tale than as a love story. And as a love story I think it's equal to Romeo and Juliet and to Tristan and Isolde - it's an archetypal love story that goes right to the heart". A very nice clean solid copy. Scarce copy of the CD SIGNED by PHILIP GLASS. SB-32.…
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