The Independent's Larry Ryan, in his round-up of the best on the web, recommends the Nonesuch site for fans of Philip Glass and prospective purchasers of the Glass Box, the new Nonesuch retrospective of 40 years of the composer's music to wrap their ears around the abundance of music. He suggests sampling the sound clips at the album page—with one available there for each of the collection's 102 tracks. Ryan also recommends tuning into Nonesuch Radio for full-length tracks by the composer and for a sampling of music from the broad array of artists on the label, "from Wilco to Amadou & Miriam to The Wire soundtrack to Glass and everything else in between."
The Independent's Larry Ryan, in his round-up of the best on the web, recommends the Nonesuch site for fans of Philip Glass and prospective purchasers of the Glass Box, the new Nonesuch retrospective of 40 years of the composer's music to wrap their ears around the abundance of music. He suggests sampling the sound clips at the album page—with one available there for each of the collection's 102 tracks. (For a better grasp of all that's inside the box, you can also find photos in and outside of the cube at nonesuch.com/media.)
Ryan also recommends tuning into Nonesuch Radio for full-length tracks by the composer. Click on the New Music station for recordings by Glass and other new-music pioneers like John Adams and Steve Reich. You can also access a sampling of music from the broad array of artists on the label. Writes Ryan:
The American label Nonesuch has a range stretching from Wilco to Amadou & Miriam to The Wire soundtrack to Glass and everything else in between. You can negotiate it all with "Nonesuch Radio"—www.nonesuch.com/radio. Here you can listen to the random "Nonesuch Mix" or break it down into the myriad of genres it caters for.
Read more of what Larry Ryan has "Caught in the Net" at independent.co.uk.
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