Chants parfaits pour lire les formes subjectives des nuages et suivre d'un œil attendri les rainures des tiges des arbres; apprécier l'écriture complexe des branches imbriquées, goûter les couleurs de la décomposition de la lumière en gouttelettes d'eau dans un jardin, ressentir fortement le sol humide de la forêt ancestrale pour percevoir les traces des animaux du passé profond 🪴🪰
Opening 00:00 Mad Rush 05:57 Metamorphosis I 22:40 Metamorphosis II 30:10 Metamorphosis III 37:40 Metamorphosis V 43:57 Truman Sleeps 49:26 Produced by Richard Guérin Engineered and Recorded by Alex Gray Mixed and Mastered by Michael Riesman Photography Arturo Bejar and Alex Gray Cover Painting: Luis Alvarez Roure Album layout and design: Ana Garlock Legal: Tim O'Donnell Philip Glass's music is published by Dunvagen Music, Adrienne White, director Executive Producers for Orange Mountain Music: Philip Glass & Don Christensen Truman Sleeps published by Sony ATV Released January 25, 2024
Orange Mountain Music presents "Philip Glass Solo” a collection of Glass performing some of his most enduring and beloved piano works. Philip Glass Solo was recorded at a time when the world was undergoing a major shift-for Glass, that shift manifested in going from a busy tour and premiere schedule to time spent at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The storied musician dedicated this time to revisiting some of his older piano music, occasionally reacquainting himself with these old friends, playing them for an audience of one in his home studio in New York. It is his most personal record to date, offering a snapshot of his life, and a portrait of daily practice over eight decades through several cherished works. Now 86, Glass reflects, “This record revisits my works for piano. From 2020-2021, I had time at home to practice the works I have played for many years. This record is both a time capsule of 2021, and a reflection on decades of composition and practice. In other words, a document on my current thinking about the music. There is also the question of place. This is my piano, the instrument on which most of the music was written. It’s also the same room where I have worked for decades in the middle of the energy which New York City itself has brought to me. The listener may hear the quiet hum of New York in the background or feel the influence of time and memory that this space affords. To the degree possible, I made this record to invite the listener in.” Philip Glass Solo opens with “Opening,” originally written for the 1982 album Glassworks, which remains one of Glass’ most transfixing pieces and established a sound that quickly became a calling card. Next we hear Mad Rush, one of his most beloved pieces and longest performances on record (at 16:35), which he composed originally as an organ piece in 1978 when the Dalai Lama made his first public address in New York. This is followed by Metamorphosis I, II, III, and V, the series of music Glass arranged for his first solo piano concerts in the 1980s; the album ends with a reworked version of “Truman Sleeps” from the soundtrack of the beloved 90s film The Truman Show, where Glass appeared on screen performing the piano in one of the pivotal scenes of the film. His changes to the piece speak to the heart of all artists’ evolution of both themselves, and their music, over time. Album artwork: Luis Álvarez Roure: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
As musically interesting as watching paint dry. A soundtrack to waiting at a train station for a train that never arrives. I am confident that Philip Glass enjoyed playing this piece more than I enjoyed listening to it. It did prove helpful in allowing me to empty my mind, so perhaps one could say it is good meditational music.
This is balm to my spirit. I discovered Philip composition and performance in the 80’s in a pit of a city. I created a short performance with a hidden fan and bubbles and lights and music for my mother’s elementary school classes. Remain a fan (no pun intended). Many major upheavals and traumas later, this is a hopeful turning into music. ❤❤❤❤
de gusitbus non est disputandum, but of opinion there is no end, as there is no end of those no one has ever heard of, and it is of them who should be commented upon for practicing to no end and for nothing: comparing genius to genius is not the skill you've developed yet to a point where you would want to show it off. a little thanks for the moment of clarity
as creative as appreciating the waves returning again and again, each time the same, each time different, Oh! you didn't notice? and how the days pass, all the same, all different. Oh? you didn't notice! que vergogna; con ojos, pero un ciego, que triste.
There's music that forgets the past and makes one live in the present. Philip Glass transcends time and makes now the sacrament of the holy now.
Chants parfaits pour lire les formes subjectives des nuages et suivre d'un œil attendri les rainures des tiges des arbres; apprécier l'écriture complexe des branches imbriquées, goûter les couleurs de la décomposition de la lumière en gouttelettes d'eau dans un jardin, ressentir fortement le sol humide de la forêt ancestrale pour percevoir les traces des animaux du passé profond 🪴🪰
Opening 00:00
Mad Rush 05:57
Metamorphosis I 22:40
Metamorphosis II 30:10
Metamorphosis III 37:40
Metamorphosis V 43:57
Truman Sleeps 49:26
Produced by Richard Guérin
Engineered and Recorded by Alex Gray
Mixed and Mastered by Michael Riesman
Photography Arturo Bejar and Alex Gray
Cover Painting: Luis Alvarez Roure
Album layout and design: Ana Garlock
Legal: Tim O'Donnell
Philip Glass's music is published by Dunvagen Music, Adrienne White, director
Executive Producers for Orange Mountain Music: Philip Glass & Don Christensen
Truman Sleeps published by Sony ATV
Released January 25, 2024
Orange Mountain Music presents "Philip Glass Solo” a collection of Glass performing some of his most enduring and beloved piano works.
Philip Glass Solo was recorded at a time when the world was undergoing a major shift-for Glass, that shift manifested in going from a busy tour and premiere schedule to time spent at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The storied musician dedicated this time to revisiting some of his older piano music, occasionally reacquainting himself with these old friends, playing them for an audience of one in his home studio in New York. It is his most personal record to date, offering a snapshot of his life, and a portrait of daily practice over eight decades through several cherished works. Now 86, Glass reflects, “This record revisits my works for piano. From 2020-2021, I had time at home to practice the works I have played for many years. This record is both a time capsule of 2021, and a reflection on decades of composition and practice. In other words, a document on my current thinking about the music. There is also the question of place. This is my piano, the instrument on which most of the music was written. It’s also the same room where I have worked for decades in the middle of the energy which New York City itself has brought to me. The listener may hear the quiet hum of New York in the background or feel the influence of time and memory that this space affords. To the degree possible, I made this record to invite the listener in.” Philip Glass Solo opens with “Opening,” originally written for the 1982 album Glassworks, which remains one of Glass’ most transfixing pieces and established a sound that quickly became a calling card. Next we hear Mad Rush, one of his most beloved pieces and longest performances on record (at 16:35), which he composed originally as an organ piece in 1978 when the Dalai Lama made his first public address in New York. This is followed by Metamorphosis I, II, III, and V, the series of music Glass arranged for his first solo piano concerts in the 1980s; the album ends with a reworked version of “Truman Sleeps” from the soundtrack of the beloved 90s film The Truman Show, where Glass appeared on screen performing the piano in one of the pivotal scenes of the film. His changes to the piece speak to the heart of all artists’ evolution of both themselves, and their music, over time.
Album artwork: Luis Álvarez Roure: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Wonderful gift ♥ The maestro's own intimate rendition of his compositions
Thanks!!!!
Огромное спасибо! Поклон, гению! 🙏 ❤
Just....wonderful-try telling me that it isn't mind-blowingly Good to be alive!
Musica sensibilissima, neo - romantica,profonda( ore 19.30)
DONG!!
Un génie tombé du ciel
Music + art
👍👏👏👏
Движение 2 нравится.
Гласс- Бык (1937). Бах , Гендель - Быки (1685) и этот , Пахельбель, кажется (1637)или не Пахельбель? Эдуард Артемьев тоже Бык был (1937)
Glass's music always makes me cry sensitive tears, thank you ;) Whose interpretation is this?
As musically interesting as watching paint dry. A soundtrack to waiting at a train station for a train that never arrives. I am confident that Philip Glass enjoyed playing this piece more than I enjoyed listening to it. It did prove helpful in allowing me to empty my mind, so perhaps one could say it is good meditational music.
Et Dieu créa la musique.
lista de canciones porfa...
This is balm to my spirit. I discovered Philip composition and performance in the 80’s in a pit of a city. I created a short performance with a hidden fan and bubbles and lights and music for my mother’s elementary school classes.
Remain a fan (no pun intended).
Many major upheavals and traumas later, this is a hopeful turning into music. ❤❤❤❤
412//30.05.24.
Из " Фотографа"(1982?)
Little Philip. practicing his scales, and arpeggios! Definitely NOT Debussy, or Ravel!
Debussy's piano work is the best ever. No one has his depth and range.
Stupid coment 🤦🏽
de gusitbus non est disputandum, but of opinion there is no end, as there is no end of those no one has ever heard of, and it is of them who should be commented upon for practicing to no end and for nothing: comparing genius to genius is not the skill you've developed yet to a point where you would want to show it off. a little thanks for the moment of clarity
QUE CHATO
Es una secuencia melódica loopeada mil veces, no es muy creativo
Comentario tonto del año 🤦🏽
Madre mía la ignorancia...
Es música minimalista, un tipo de arte que me gusta mucho
as creative as appreciating the waves returning again and again, each time the same, each time different, Oh! you didn't notice? and how the days pass, all the same, all different. Oh? you didn't notice! que vergogna; con ojos, pero un ciego, que triste.
Sin dudas no tan creativo como mercedita con nuestra bella lengua.