Glass Essentials: An 80th Anniversary Tribute (LP) | Grand Piano GP752LP

Glass Essentials: An 80th Anniversary Tribute (LP)

£29.75

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Label: Grand Piano

Cat No: GP752LP

Format: LP

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 13th January 2017

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This compilation celebrates Philip Glass’s 80th birthday through his unique contribution to the solo piano repertoire. It features a selection of the intricately melodic Etudes which are both technique-expanding and intimately personal statements. Glass’s importance as a film composer is shown in two excerpts from the BAFTA-winning score for The Hours, and Metamorphosis Two which derives from music for the 1988 film The Thin Blue Line. The only transcription Glass is known to have made, of Paul Simon’s The Sound of Silence, is heard in its only recording. Music in Fifths – which Steve Reich called “like a freight train” – dates from his experimental years and is full of a mesmerising variety of pulse patterns.

Nicolas Horvath has in recent years become one of the most sought after pianists of his generation. Holder of a number of awards, including First Prize of the Scriabin and the Luigi Nono International Competitions, he frequently organizes events and concerts of unusual length, sometimes over twelve hours, such as Philip Glass’s complete piano music or Erik Satie’s Vexations, and composers from a number of countries have written for him. Nicolas Horvath is a Steinway artist.

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