The Hours OST Double Vinyl by Philip Glass

£35.00

Nonesuch releasesnbspPhilip Glassrsquosnbspawardwinning soundtrack tonbspThe Hoursnbspon vinyl for the first time to coincide with its 20thnbspanniversary and Glassrsquo 85thnbspbirthday concert season.nbspnbspOriginally released in December 2002, Glassrsquos score to the Academy Awardwinning film was itself nominated for an Academy Award, as well as a Golden Globe and a Grammy, and went on to win anbspBAFTA and a Classical BRIT.Directed by Stephen Daldry,nbspThe Hoursnbspis the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives.nbsp Based on Michael Cunninghamrsquos 1999 Pulitzer Prizendashwinning novel, with a screenplay by David Hare, the film interweaves the stories of three women ndash a book editor in…

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Vinyl Records London are on cloud nine, we are now spinning in a brand new copy in Double Vinyl from Philip Glass Nonesuch releasesnbspPhilip Glassrsquosnbspawardwinning soundtrack tonbspThe Hoursnbspon vinyl for the first time to coincide with its 20thnbspanniversary and Glassrsquo 85thnbspbirthday concert season.nbspnbspOriginally released in December 2002, Glassrsquos score to the Academy Awardwinning film was itself nominated for an Academy Award, as well as a Golden Globe and a Grammy, and went on to win anbspBAFTA and a Classical BRIT.Directed by Stephen Daldry,nbspThe Hoursnbspis the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives.nbsp Based on Michael Cunninghamrsquos 1999 Pulitzer Prizendashwinning novel, with a screenplay by David Hare, the film interweaves the stories of three women ndash a book editor in New York Meryl Streep, a young mother in California Julianne Moore, and the author Virginia Woolf Nicole Kidman.nbsp Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.Philip Glassrsquos score was conducted by Nick Ingman, with Michael Reisman on piano and the Lyric Quartet, and recorded at Abbey Road Studios and Air Studios, London.nbsp The score was a key element in this acclaimed triptych of dramatic tales.nbsp lsquoThe intercutting of personal stories over a wide span of time,rsquo said NPR, lsquois held together by a single music approach.rsquonbsp