EPISODE · Apr 7, 2012 · 11 MIN
Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts
from Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics · host BBC Radio 3
Composer Nico Muhly nominates Philip Glass's Music in Twelve Parts, a large-scale set of pieces for electric organs, voice, flutes and saxophones which is considered to be an early masterpiece of the New York minimalist. Gillian Moore puts the work in context and suggests how this numerical process music attains its human quality through the choice of sounds.
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