Minimalist Meditation
Minimalist music lends itself to meditation and reflection. Lose yourself in its simple cells of sound, pulsating rhythms, hypnotic melodic loops and repetitions, subtly shifting harmonies, and other-worldly timbres…
Read more…- Glass•Glassworks (1981): Opening•
- Richter•Sleep (2015)•Dream 1 (before the wind blows it all away) • Part 1
- Adams•Shaker Loops (1983) (Version for String Orchestra)•II. Hymning Slews
- Reich•Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1973)•Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
- Pärt•De profundis (Psalm 129/130) for Male Chorus, Organ and Percussion ad libitum (1980)•De profundis clamavi ad te Domine
- Glass•Dreaming Awake (2003) for Piano•Dreaming Awake
- Tavener•Song for Athene (1993)•Alleluia. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
- Pärt•Solfeggio (Version for Mixed Chorus a cappella) (1963)•
- Richter•Woolf Works: Mrs Dalloway (2017)•4. Meeting Again
- Górecki•Symphony No. 3 op. 36 (1976) “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”•II. Lento e largo. Tranquillissimo – cantabillissimo – dolcissimo – legatissimo
- Richter•Sleep (2015)•Cumulonimbus • Part 2
- Cage•In a Landscape (1948)•
- Richter•Sleep (2015)•Path 3 (7676) • Part 5
- Glass•Façades for 2 Soprano Saxophones, Viola, Violoncello and Synthesizer (1981)•
- Smetanin•Minimalism isn't dead, it just smells funny (1991)•
- Glass•Metamorphosis (1988)•Metamorphosis II
- Reich•Music For A Large Ensemble (1978)•Music For A Large Ensemble
- Glass•Akhnaten (1984): Akhnaten and Nefertiti (Akhnaten, Nefertiti, Act II)•Akhnaten and Nefertiti
- Adams•China Gates (1977)•
- Glass•Études for Piano (1994) (Arr. for Piano and String quartet)•No. 2
- Górecki•Totus Tuus op. 60 (1987)•Lento assai - Molto espressivo
- Luther Adams•Ilimaq•1. Descent
- Luther Adams•Ilimaq•2. Under the Ice
- Luther Adams•Ilimaq•3. The Sunken Gamelan
- Luther Adams•Ilimaq•4. Untune the Sky
- Luther Adams•Ilimaq•5. Ascension
- Muhly•Look for Me (2015)•
- Glass•Etudes for Piano, Book 2 (2004-2012)•Etude No. 20
Philip Glass sets the scene with ‘Opening’. With its layers of repeating cells and gentle harmonic transitions, this is music of beautiful, meditative simplicity.
Max Richter’s ‘Sleep’ was conceived around the neuroscience of sleep and repose and is “an attempt to see how that space when your conscious mind is on holiday can be a place for music to live”: listening while awake to this beguiling, ever-changing music conjures up dream states and “relaxed consciousness”.