Kundun
Published:
COMPOSERS: Philip Glass
LABELS: Nonesuch
CATALOGUE NO: 7559-79460-2
Philip Glass’s music for Kundun is predictably pulsating, but it’s miserably dull listened to without Scorsese’s pretty pictures. Glass is still mired in minimalism: in the score to Gattaca there are faint signs that Michael Nyman may be tiring of this game, and reaching back to melody.