Philip Glass: Piano Works, Vol. 5
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.GP745

By Nicolas Horvath. By Philip Glass. Classical. Listening CD (1 disc). Published by Naxos (NX.GP745).

UPC: 747313974528.

The works in this programme demonstrate Philip Glass' perpetual goal of connecting with his audience. Taking shape as something like a hidden sonata form, Mad Rush contrasts peaceful atmosphere with tempestuousness and mesmerising beauty. The last of it's kind in Glass' oeuvre, 600 Lines, here receiving it's premiere recording on solo piano, is an obsessive and hypnotically restless toccata that represents the zenith of his experiences while working with Ravi Shankar. These two monumental works are joined by premiere recordings of the subtly transformed Metamorphosis Two, and Glass' transcription of Paul Simon's The Sound of Silence.

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