If you love the cello | Philip Glass - Songs & Poems for Solo Cello - Wendy Sutter

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	• Philip Glass - Songs & Poems for Solo Cello - Wendy Sutter Philip Glass, Wendy Sutter Orange Mountain Music, 2008 average customer review:based on 15 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Impressive playing ... but CD is badly produced

The first few times I heard this CD I was enthusiastic ... intense and exciting music played with great style and power by cellist Wendy Sutter.

Over time, however, my enjoyment has been undermined by the realization that the producers of this disc did not take the special care needed when recording a powerful string instrument like the magnificent ex-Vatican Stradivarius used by Sutter. As a result, there is a distinct grating and perhaps even clipping during the loudest passages. I spend much time listening to live cello, and have concluded that this disc does not provide a pleasing or accurate rendition. Moreover, I have played the disc on a variety of sound systems, from a cheap boombox to computer speakers to a couple of high-end setups, including a reference professional headphone amp. It sounds worse on the better systems as these more clearly reveal the shortcomings of the recording.

I looked up the label that produced the CD, Orange Mountain Music. They describe themselves as "a new record company created to serve the fans, aficionados and academics studying the music of Philip Glass." Perhaps, as a small outfit, they did not have the expertise or facilities needed to make a professional-quality recording.

Whatever the case may be, these are delightful works played by an excellent cellist. Both the composition and the performer would have deserved better sound engineering.

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If you love the cello

If you love the cello, you will probably enjoy this CD very much. I am.

better than Glass

I love solo cello and hoped this wouldn't be typical Glass carousel music. It's amazingly good, like Bach come to life as a modern man. I agree with all the reviewers who love it. I too can't stop listening. I would never have guessed this was Glass.

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great

This cello music is very brooding and pensive, the Glass we all have grown to appreciate. The cello itself is arguably the best ever made, it sounds so haunting and poignant! Great music.

Beautiful, weird, heartrending, exquisitely performed

Glass uses repetition in music in new way. In the Songs, he seems to be reaching to express something that the old way does not express. It is work to follow him in that endeavor. Wendy Sutter brings out every possible nuance and emotion in the pieces. So to listen is to strive with both of them to achieve something new. And they do and it is worth the effort. The cello note resonates in your brain as she moves on to a new note. The sense of striving remains after the piece is finished. This one is not for everybody. Koyaanisqatsi would be a better intro to Glass. If you really like that, this could be next. Tissue is more accessible Glass, sweeter and less demanding of the listener than the Songs. But also beautiful. I really like all of them. Wendy Sutter is wonderful on every piece, but transcendent on the Songs.

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