Philip Glass: Glassworlds . 5: Enlightenment – Nicolas Horvath

Mad Rush
Metamorphosis Nr. 2 (für Klavier)
600 lines
The sound of silence (tranksr. für Klavier von Philp Glass)

Nicolas Horvath

Format: 1 CD
Release date: 1/10/2016
SKU: 0747313974528 Catégories : ,

14,90€

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Le piano sans fin
Au début du mois d’octobre dernier, le pianiste français Nicolas Horvath s’est prêté dans la salle de la Philharmonie de Paris (à la Cité de la musique) à une performance peu ordinaire : jouer toute l’½uvre pour piano seul de Philip Glass en continu. Il a choisi de l’interpréter par ordre chronologique de composition – ce qui représente grosso modo douze heures de musique d’affilée. On peut aujourd’hui en avoir un aperçu partiel grâce à ce CD, le cinquième……
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   in Piano International (Jan, 2017)
Nicolas Horvath’s sterling Glass series continues with a volume containing two extended pieces, Mad Rush and 600 Lines. Originally for organ, Mad Rush was most famously performed by the composer at the Dalai Lama’s first visit to New York in 1981. There is more peace here than the title implies, and Horvath gives a characteristically assured performance. Glass’s hypnotic harmonic progressions unfold with mesmeric inevitability. The end morphs into the newest, still unpublished version of Metamorphosis II. Heard in the context of all five Metamorphoses on Glassworlds 3, it sounds darker there in the earlier version; the alteration is tiny but significant. More rugged, 600 Lines (1967) plays with …

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