Philip Glass: Philip Glass: The Piano Collection: Piano: Instrumental Album

Cycle de chansons de Philip Glass pour piano et voix. Paroles de Paul Simon, Suzanne Vega, David Byrne et Laurie Anderson. Réduction pour piano avec les mots. Convient aux pianistes avancés. / Chant Et Piano

In the past two decades years American composer Philip Glass has become a prominent and unique figure in the international music world. Writing operas orchestral and choral works and music for film theatre dance and The PhilipGlass Ensemble (which has toured over fifty cities worldwide) Glass has brought his creative vision to a diverse and ever growing audience.

In the past two decades years American composer Philip Glass has become a prominent and unique figure in the international music world. Writing operas orchestral and choral works and music for film theatre dance and The PhilipGlass Ensemble (which has toured over fifty cities worldwide) Glass has brought his creative vision to a diverse and ever growing audience.

Proponents and critics alike may find the idea surprising that celebrated minimalist composer Philip Glass is an admirer and student of the Baroque literature for harpsichord. On consideration the driving staccato of theinstrument is an excellent match to Glass’s own rhythmically urgent musical energies and so it proves in this Concerto For Harpsichord And Chamber Orchestra.Glass adhered broadly to the fast-slow-fast three-movement form ofclassic concerti and his goal was to allow both the solo instrument and the Orchestra to have moments to ‘shine in the musical spotlight’.This concerto is designated as part of The Concerto Project recording series started byGlass in the year 2000 currently in four volumes and including eight concerti.American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequentlyreferred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music with repetitive structures.’ His operas among them the renowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created workfor small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his own performing group The Philip Glass Ensemble.

Composer Philip Glass returned to composition for chamber ensemble after several years of work for films ballet opera and solo instruments. Four Movements For Two Pianos was commissioned by hislong-time advocate the conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies and pianist Maki Namakawa and after the success of this piece at the Ruhr Piano Festival the pair decided to continue performing as a duo. The piece can belocated more at the classical end of Glass’ compositional spectrum retaining all the propulsive rhythms arpeggiation and repetitiveness that are the hallmarks of the composer’s work. American composerPhilip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music withrepetitive structures.’ His operas among them the renowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his ownperforming group The Philip Glass Ensemble.

Einstein On The Beach the opera from which Knee Play 4 was extracted was a seminal work that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long.Knee Play 4 is one of the number songs composed for scene changes using numbers and solfege syllables as text.American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music with repetitive structures.' Glass' operas among them therenowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his own performing group The Philip GlassEnsemble.This seven minute piece is the fourth Knee Play from Einstein On The Beach and is scored for TB chorus and Violin.

Violin Part-Einstein On The Beach the opera from which Knee Play 4 was extracted was a seminal work that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long.Knee Play 4 is one of the number songs composed for scene changes using numbers and solfege syllables as text.American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music with repetitive structures.' Glass' operas among them therenowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his own performing group The Philip GlassEnsemble.This is the Violin part for the fourth Knee Play from Einstein On The Beach.

Violin Part-Einstein On The Beach the opera from which Knee Play 5 was extracted was a seminal work that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long.Knee Play 5 is one of the number songs composed for scene changes using numbers and solfege syllables as text.American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolific of the modern composers. He is frequently referred to as a minimalist though he prefers to call himself a composer of ‘music with repetitive structures.'Glass' operas among them therenowned Einstein On The Beach are performed across the globe and he has created work for small and large ensembles film and experimental theatre and founded his own performing group The Philip GlassEnsemble.This is the Violin part for the fifth Knee Play from Einstein On The Beach.