Philip Glass - Dracula

1999; 26 tracks
Kronos Quartet

Prolific modern classical composer Philip Glass has created a live accompaniment to Browning's 1931 film Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi. While the film is not a 'silent film,' there being dialogue and a few selections from Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake, Glass intended the score to accompany the film. Though I prefer the deathly silence of the film, its startingly bare landscape, devoid of gore, blood, and thrills, merges quite well with this minimalist score for strings.

undead, undead

Michael Cashmore - The Snow Abides EP

2007; 5 tracks

A tender and beautiful apocalyptic folk album that is an even softer side of the main contributor to Nature & Organisation, Michael Cashmore.

There's a fragile beauty to the work of Michael Cashmore on The Snow Abides borne from delicate piano scores, complemented by lush arrangements from a small ensemble of players, and the heart-stopping voice of Antony Hegarty. This evocative, yet short, EP manages to communicate a profound spiritual longing through Cashmore's disarming, gentle melodies.


I look at my hands and count the sun making another scar across my sky

Rudi Arapahoe - Echoes From One to Another

 2008; 12 tracks

This is really, really beautiful music. It is neoclassical with an electronic/ambient touch.


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Geirr Tveitt - Piano Concerto No. 4, "Aurora Borealis" / Variations on a Folksong from Hardanger

Gierr Tveitt was a Norwegian composer of modern classical music, inspired by composers such as Bartók, Debussy, Stravinsky, Ravel, Grieg, etc. Here is his one of his more popular works, the 4th Piano Concerto (nicknamed "Aurora Borealis", as well as Variations on a Folksong from Hardanger, for two pianos and orchestra.

Havard Gimse and Gunilla Süssmann are the pianists. Bjarte Engeset conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.


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