Composer: Philip Glass
Performer: Valentina Lisitsa
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Decca
Release: 2015
Size: 2.92 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Glassworks
01. Opening
The Truman Show
02. Truman Sleeps (short version)
The Hours (arr. Michael Riesman)
03. The Poet Acts
04. Morning Passages
How Now
05. How Now
The Hours (arr. Michael Riesman)
06. Something She Has To Do
07. I’m Going To Make A Cake
Olympian: Lighting Of The Torch
08. Olympian: Lighting Of The Torch
Mad Rush
09. Mad Rush
The Hours (arr. Michael Riesman)
10. Dead Things
11. Tearing Herself Away
Wichita Sutra Vortex
12. Wichita Sutra Vortex
The Hours (arr. Michael Riesman)
13. Escape!
14. Chosing Life
15. The Hours
Metamorphosis
16. Metamorphosis One
17. Metamorphosis Two
18. Metamorphosis Three
19. Metamorphosis Four
20. Metamorphosis Five
Mishima (arr. Michael Riesman)
21. Closing
The Hours (arr. Michael Riesman)
22. An Unwelcome Friend
23. Why Does Someone Have To Die?
The Truman Show
24. Truman Sleeps
Recording Location: Reitstadel, Neumarkt, 1–4 September 2014
Cutting-edge pianist meets trendsetting composer: Valentina Lisitsa, whose artistry has bewitched audiences around the world, is releasing a double album selection of works for solo piano by Philip Glass, whose brand of minimalism has made him one of the most influential composers of our time. Valentina Lisitsa plays Philip Glass (Decca) is a stunning collection of Glass’s piano works, performed by Lisitsa with the grace and understanding of a true minimalist interpreter.
Music on the album includes tracks from Stephen Daldry’s BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated film The Hours, using the building blocks of minimalism to achieve a huge, inventive soundscape of musical richness and contrasts. The most substantial piece in the collection is the mesmerising 30-minute How Now, one of the first compositions written for the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1968. Also featured is Metamorphosis, a five-movement work of music for a theatrical adaptation of Kafka’s play of the same name. Other works featured include the iconic Mad Rush, which Glass performed at the first public appearance of the 14th Dalai Lama in New York City in 1981 and Mishima / Closing, part of the soundtrack to the 1985 film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.
Richly harmonic, this collection of definitive Glass is a deeply evocative listening experience, with revelatory performances from Lisitsa. She captures the essential beauty in Glass’s circular melodies and the drama he infuses into his minimalistic approach.