Valentina Lisitsa plays Philip Glass
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PHILIP GLASS
Valentina Lisitsa plays Philip Glass
Valentina Lisitsa (piano)
[ Decca Music Group / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 16 March 2015
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This album brings together two artists with enormous followings: Valentina Lisitsa, with her dazzling artistry and hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube; and Philip Glass, with his hugely popular minimalist piano music.
A generous selection of Philip Glass's most successful and best-loved pieces for solo piano, brought together on one 150min release (2CD physical) including tracks from the BAFTA-winning and Academy Award nominated film "The Hours."
Here is Glass at his best - using the building blocks of minimalism to achieve a huge, inventive soundscape of musical richness and contrasts. His music is richly harmonic, and this album is a deeply evocative listening experience.
Revelatory performances from YouTube sensation, pianist Valentina Lisitsa; a wonderful artist with exceptional musicality and a stunning technique.
"The skilled piano performances of Lisitsa definitely put her versions of these works to the fore. Her careful phrasing and dynamics, applied as though these were works by Schumann or one of the other composers of that period, moves them into a place of truly effective music - unlike some of the more mechanical performances by other pianists - including even Glass himself." (AudAud.com)
Tracks:
Opening from 'Glassworks'
Truman Sleeps, from 'The Truman Show'
The Poet Acts (arr. Riesman)
Morning Passages (arr. Riesman)
How Now
Something She Has To Do (arr. Riesman)
I'm Going to Make a Cake (arr. Riesman)
Olympian: Lighting of the Torch
Mad Rush
Dead Things (arr. Riesman)
Tearing Herself Away (arr. Riesman)
Wichita Vortex Sutra
Escape! (arr. Riesman)
Choosing Life (arr. Riesman)
The Hours (arr. Riesman)
Metamorphosis I-V
Mishima: Closing
