Nicolas Horvath PHILIP GLASS Glassworlds - 6

GLASSWORLDS - 6

 

Nicolas Horvath PHILIP GLASS Glassworlds - 5

GLASSWORLDS - 5

 

Nicolas Horvath PHILIP GLASS Glassworlds - 4

GLASSWORLDS - 4

 

Nicolas Horvath PHILIP GLASS Glassworlds - 3

GLASSWORLDS - 3

 

Nicolas Horvath PHILIP GLASS Glassworlds - 2

GLASSWORLDS - 2

 

Nicolas Horvath PHILIP GLASS Glassworlds - 1

 GLASSWORLDS - 1

Nicolas Horvath THE UNKNOWN DEBUSSY

                                                         THE UNKNOWN DEBUSSY

Nicolas Horvath PHILIP GLASS Glassworlds 5 - Enlightenment

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 its kind in Glass’ oeuvre, 600 Lines, here receiving its première 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 première recordings of the subtly transformed Metamorphosis Two, and Glass’ transcription of Paul Simon’s The Sound of Silence.

Nicolas Horvath PHILIP GLASS Glassworlds 4 - On Love

This volume focuses on love, one of Philip Glass’ most glorious themes. The timeless melancholy of his BAFTA award-winning music for The Hours forms an organic suite driven by the film’s three powerful characters, here complete with three unpublished movements. The breathtakingly energetic Modern Love Waltz expands the limits of minimalism by combining Glass’s style with Viennese dance tradition, while his transcription of Notes on a Scandal is a recording première. Steve Reich described the iconic Music in Fifths as being “like a freight train”.

Nicolas Horvath PHILIP GLASS Glassworlds 3 - Metamorphosis

This programme reverses time, revealing the metamorphosis in Glass’ work from his 1980s film and theatre transcriptions, through The Olympian composed for the Los Angeles Olympiad, to rarities such as the dream-like Coda. The Trilogy Sonata highlights Glass’ renowned operas from the celebratory Akhnaten Dance to the stately Satyagraha and landmark Einstein on the Beach. The dazzling pulse-patterns of Two Pages make it a milestone of minimalism, while the Sonatina No. 2 is a pre-minimalist work composed under the influence of Darius Milhaud.

Nicolas Horvath PHILIP GLASS Glassworlds 2 - Complete Etudes Nos. 1 - 20

Composed between 1991 and 2012, the 20 sweepingly diverse and intricately melodic Etudes are among Philip Glass’ most beautiful and inventive works. Exploring a variety of textures, tempi and techniques, they provide an unintended but compelling self-portrait of the composer. “Piano solo concerts are among my favorite experiences,” says Glass, “the most essential basic dialogue… Whatever happens is happening directly between me and the audience … This is the first body of work where I’m really welcoming the world of pianists into my world.”

Nicolas Horvath PHILIP GLASS Glassworlds 1 - Piano Works and Transcriptions

Philip Glass has made an immense and stylistically wide-ranging contribution to piano repertoire. The Orphée Suite, a transcription of excerpts from the first opera in Glass’ Cocteau Trilogy, is one of his most distinctive piano pieces, blending virtuosity and melodic richness. In contrast, the hypnotic How Now is structurally influenced by Indian ragas and gamelan music, whilst Dreaming Awake contains one of the most powerful climaxes in all Glass’ works. Performed by Nicolas Horvath, a Scriabin Competition first prizewinner, this is the first release in the complete Glass solo piano edition which will include many premières.