Images 4 Music
by Ars Electronica Center Linz
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Actor: Dennis Russell Davies, Maki Namekawa, Philip Glass, Steve ReichDirector: Ars Electronica Center Linz
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Classical, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Import, NTSC, Special Edition
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 50 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Ars Electronica
Movie Reviews of Images 4 Music
Movie Review: Priorities?
Summary: 5 Stars
This DVD release is a strange phenomenon. The point of the DVD seems to be a trail run by Ars Electronica through the auspices of Harmonia Mundi to present visuals of the music by Philip Glass and Steve Reich before the CD of this two piano four hands arrangement of Glass' opera 'Les Enfants Terribles' and Reich's 'Piano Phase' is released.
Whatever the justification this DVD proves to be an interesting introduction to Glass' music in particular. All manner of images are rendered including the pure electronic art of Dietmar Offenhuber, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Lotte Schreiber, Casey Reas, and Martin Wattenberg. The wonderful music is performed by Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa. For those unfamiliar with the Glass chamber opera this is a fine introduction.
For classical music lovers who are finding the more frequent use of video and electronic visual aids (like in the immensely popular 'Tristan und Isolde' production from the LA Phil with Bill Viola's videos, Peter Sellars, direction, Esa-Pekka Salonen's conducting) exciting, this is a fascinating experience and one that will possibly gradually make a noise in the market place. Imagine an opera's sets on a DVD that could be projected on any stage in the world? Curiouser and curiouser....Grady Harp, October 05