Identify this classical music please.

May 27, 2007 3:46 PM

Can anyone identify the background music (modern classical I think) in the clips I have linked to inside?

I've put them here
I've tried to get some varied clips so should be four on this page. It's from a BBC TV programme, Jonathon Meades Abroad again in Britain, about architect Cuthbert Broderick, shown last week.

posted by zingzangzung to media & arts (5 comments total)

It's Philip Glass's Violin Concerto No. 2.
posted by tepidmonkey at 4:05 PM on May 27, 2007

I mean, String Quartet.
posted by tepidmonkey at 4:06 PM on May 27, 2007

OK, I should be paying more attention. The music in clip 1 is from the first movement of Philip Glass's String Quartet No. 2. The music in clip 2 is from the fourth movement. I'm not sure about the clips 3 and 4.
posted by tepidmonkey at 4:12 PM on May 27, 2007

The music on clips 3 and 4 sounds like Steve Reich, but I don't know the titles.
posted by euphotic at 4:41 PM on May 27, 2007

Thankyou tepidmonkey for getting 1 and 2, and also euphotic, you reminded me, it's Steve Reich The Desert Music in 3 and 4.
posted by zingzangzung at 5:03 PM on May 27, 2007