Concerto for Cello and Orchestra No.1 (2001). Philip Glass /altogether more conventional/

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Devil's Trill on Philip Glass' adoption of symphonic and concerto forms:

But as he's shoehorned his hugely distinctive sound into these traditional structures, the original intensity of the style has been diluted and replaced with something altogether more conventional.

And ultimately, less appealing...

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