Philip Glass
“After all these years, it was not the imagery that leaped out to me; it was Philip Glass’ score. Even by the standards of the remarkable feature-film and documentary scores Glass has written since 1984, Mishima continues to be a breakthrough work. Though his music sometimes seems to follow its own path in some movies he scores, the music for Mishima is so much a part of the emotional and physical dynamic of the film that it is difficult to imagine the movie without it.”
Director Paul Schrader’s highly stylized vision of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima finds “its textures made more shimmering by the Philip Glass score,”says The New Yorker. Glass, Schrader, and costume designer Eiko Ishioka shared a “Best Artistic Contribution” Award at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
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Michael Riesman, conductor
String quartets performed by
Kronos Quartet
David Harrington, violin
John Sherba, violin
Hank Dutt, viola
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
Produced by Kurt Munkacsi
Released by Nonesuch Records
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