Music for a Glass Bead Game CD

Arturo Delmoni, violin & Nathaniel Rosen, cello . The importance of music to a well-rounded intellectual and cultural life is an important theme of the novel, The Glass Bead Game, in which the structure, content, context, ornament and artifice of individual pieces of music provides the fuel for the Game's ceaseless quest for connectedness and universality. This recording includes pieces chosen for their ability to illuminate each other, with the Western European tonality and structure of the compositions by Giordani and Handel, which set off the Eastern European roots of the selections by Martinu and Kodaly. Selections include: Passacaglia (G. F. Handel), Duo for Violin and Violoncello (Zoltán Kodály), Duo for Violin and Violoncello (Bohuslav Martinu), Two-Part Inventions 1, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 13 (J.S. Bach), Duetto II (Tommaso Giordani)