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Radio 3,1 min

SeriesPhilip Glass (1937-)

Philip Glass: From Akhnaten (1983) – Hymn (Act 2 Scene.4)

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'Akhnaten is one of Glass's most accessible operas, with beautiful melodic writing and a genuinely archaic atmosphere evoking the strange reign of this ancient Egyptian pharaoh.'

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