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Waiting for the Barbarians | 
 enlarge | Creators: Eugene Perry, Richard Salter, Philip Glass, Dennis Russell Davies, Erfurt Theatre Company
Label: Orange Mountain
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 5644
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 133
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 39
UPC: 801837003925
EAN: 0801837003925
ASIN: B0018C6QY8
Release Date: May 26, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| » | ACT I - Prelude | | » | In fact, we never had a prison | | » | Dreamscape No 1 | | » | You sent for me | | » | You're working late | | » | Normally speaking, we would never approve of torture... | | » | Take off your cap | | » | Dreamscape No 2 | | » | Do you like living in the town? | | » | To demonstrate our strength | | » | Did you have a good evening? | | » | Dreamscape No 3 | | » | What is it? | | » | Can you see them? | | » | Who gave you permission to desert your post? |
Disc 2
| » | ACT II - Here, in the dark | | » | Dreamscape No 4 | | » | What is going on?" | | » | Prologue to Scene Four | | » | Perhaps you would be so kind | | » | Enemy, Barbarian Lover! | | » | So we're still feeding you well? | | » | Dreamscape No 5 | | » | Tell me, what has happened | | » | You don't have to go | | » | Our town is beautiful |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Cough, cough, cough! July 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I saw this opera 'cough' at the Barbican on 'cough' June 12th 2008. I had looked forward 'cough' to it for a very long time and enjoyed 'cough' it very much. I waited until afterwards to purchase the 'cough' cd and didn't listen to any sounds clips. I know this is a live recording 'cough, cough' but I would have thought that today any audience noise 'cough' could be removed. A-tishoo! I really enjoy the opera and Philip Glass is my hero but 'cough' the recording of this opera is 'cough, cough' appalling. I actually counted over 147 coughs and sneezes between both acts. It is so distracting I dont 'cough' think I will play this cd very often. A great shame. 'cough, cough. Excuse me!
 Greatest Living Composer June 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
While not up to the dizzying standards of his best opera, 'Akhnaten', or other great recent work, such as the sublime 'Book of Longing', this is still a powerful work. Where the opera falls down is in the rather prosaic, leaden scoring for the lead voices (a common flaw in Glass's recent, more narrative operas), but the composer more than makes up for this with his ecstatic choral writing and adept instrumental orchestration. While not Glass's finest work, this flawed work still packs a wallop - dark, shimmering and trascendent, this is minimalism at its best and again underlines Glass's position as the world's greatest living composer.
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