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Philip Glass - Akhnaten (Box) [180 Gram]

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Format: Vinyl
Label: MUSIC ON VINYL
Rel. Date: 07/23/2021
UPC: 8719262014329

Akhnaten (Box) [180 Gram]
Artist: Philip Glass
Format: Vinyl
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DISC: 1

1. Act I: Year 1 of Akhnaten's Reign. Thebes
2. Prelude: Refrain, Verse 1, Verse 2
3. Prelude: Verse 3
4. Scene 1: Funeral of Amenhotep III
5. Scene 2: The Coronation of Akhnaten
6. Scene 3: The Window of Appearances
7. Act II: Year 5 to 1
8. Thebes and Akhenaten
9. Scene 1: The Temple
10. Scene 2: Akhnaten ; Nefertiti
11. Scene 3: The City. Dance (Beginning)
12. Scene 3: The City. Dance (Conclusion)
13. Scene 4: Hymn
14. Act III: Year 17 and the Present. Akhenaten
15. Scene 1: The Family
16. Scene 2: Attack ; Fall
17. Scene 3: The Ruins
18. Scene 4: Epilogue

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Akhnaten is the third in the composer Philip Glass' trilogy of operas about men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas. Akhnaten's subject is religion. It's title was derived from the Egyptian pharaoh Akhnaten, who was the first monotheist in recorded story. His substitution of a one-god religion for the multi-god worship when he came to power ultimately resulted in his exclusion from lists of rulers compiled by later pharaohs, and his legacy became all but lost to history until the late 19th century. The opera describes the rise, reign, and fall of Akhnaten in a series of tableaus.
        
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