Philip Glass - Solo Piano Album

Tracklist

1	Metamorphosis Three	5:30
2	Metamorphosis One	5:39
3	Metamorphosis Four	7:00
4	Metamorphosis Two	7:19
5	Metamorphosis
6	Mad Rush	13:44
7	Wichita Sutra Vortex	6:05
8	Metamorphosis Five	5:03

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
MK 45576	Philip Glass	Solo Piano ‎(CD, Album)	CBS	MK 45576	Europe	1989
MK 45576	Philip Glass	Solo Piano ‎(CD, Album, RE)	CBS	MK 45576	USA & Canada	Unknown
FMT 45576	Philip Glass	Solo Piano ‎(Cass, Album, CrO)	CBS	FMT 45576	Canada	1989
FMT 45576	Philip Glass	Solo Piano ‎(Cass)	CBS	FMT 45576	Netherlands	1989
FMT45576, FMT 45576	Philip Glass	Solo Piano ‎(Cass, Album)	CBS, CBS	FMT45576, FMT 45576	US	1989

Credits

• Composed By, Performer – Philip Glass
• Design [Cover Design] – John Zimmerman
• Engineer – Miles Green
• Engineer [Assistant Engineer] – Blaise Dupuy
• Executive-Producer – Rory Johnston
• Photography By [Cover Photo] – Steve Prezant
• Producer – Kurt Munkacsi
• Sleeve Notes – Jody Dalton
• Supervised By [Musical Supervisor] – Martin Goldray
• Translated By [Sleeve Notes] – Danielle Descottes, Wolfgang Steuhl

Notes

Foil-stamped, numbered edition of 1,100.

System recorded and edited with Sound Tools by digidesign using the Apple Macintosh II
Produced [...] for Euphorbia Production Ltd.

Recorded at The Living Room Studios, New York, 1989
© 1989, 2017 Sony Music Entertainment
℗ 1989 Sony Music Entertainment
Manufactured for Vinyl Me, Please by Sony Music Entertainment
25 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010-8601

Barcodes

• Barcode: 889853489718
• Matrix / Runout (A-side runout, hand-etched): 98301 1A MOVCL 007
• Matrix / Runout (B-side runout, hand-etched): 98301 1B MOVCL 007

Companies

• Exclusive Retailer – Vinyl Me, Please
• Mastered At – Masterdisk
• Produced For – Euphorbia Productions Ltd.
• Recorded At – The Living Room
• Copyright (c) – Sony Music Entertainment
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sony Music Entertainment
• Manufactured For – Vinyl Me, Please
• Manufactured By – Sony Music Entertainment
• Pressed By – Record Industry – 98301

Video

Album

Solo Piano 1989 is an album of piano music composed and performed by Philip Glass. It was produced by Kurt Munkacsi. The title of five of the seven tracks, Metamorphosis, refers to and was inspired by the 1915 novella The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. While all pieces were written in 1988, some were written for a staging of Metamorphosis, while others were for the 1988 documentary film The Thin Blue Line directed by Errol Morris. Mad Rush was written in 1979 and is based on an earlier organ. To Philip Glass, piano music is something intimate. It was no accident that his first CBS album, Glassworks, which was designed as an introduction to his music, began with solo piano. Though Glass characterizes much of the music on this recording as romantic, his performances are not in the virtuoso concert-hall tradition of Liszt or Rachmaninoff. Glass has had a long history of performing his own music, being among the first of a new generation of compos. Track listing: Metamorphosis One - 00:00 Metamorphosis Two - 05:48 Metamorphosis Three - 13:11 Metamorphosis Four - 18:50 Metamorphosis Five - 25:55 SOLO PIANO, Glass presents himself unplugged - no electronic keyboards or synthesizers, and no overdubs, either - just solo piano. Here, Glass' connection to the established classical tradition is most evident. Though his pieces are minimal subtly altered repeated patterns or melodic motifs, yet they have an unsentimental beauty and heartfelt grace that one would hear in J. Bach's English Suites, as well as the piano music of Chopin and Erik Satie. Portions of the suite 'Metamorphosis' are based on Glass' score for THE THIN. Listen free to Philip Glass Solo Piano Metamorphosis One, Metamorphosis: Two and more. 7 tracks 48:02. Metamorphosis was written in 1988 and takes its name from a play based on Kafka's short story. Numbers three and four are from Glass's incidental music to the play, which he wrote to fulfill separate but nearly simultaneous requests from two different theater companies. The touching melody of number two and the diatonic harmonies read more. Numbers three and four are from Glass read more. Solo Piano. Philip Glass - Solo Piano 2003. To favorites 4 Download album. Listen album. Classical Music. Philip Glass. Released 1989. Solo Piano Tracklist. Metamorphosis One Lyrics. Solo Piano Q&A. Writers Philip Glass. More Philip Glass albums. Valentina Lisitsa plays Philip Glass: The Hours, Metamorphosis, Mad Rush. The Complete Piano Etudes. Show all albums by Philip Glass. This item:Philip Glass: Solo Piano by Philip Glass Audio CD . Only 9 left in stock more on the way. Ships from and sold by . I was introduced to this particular Philip Glass music when I hear Metamorphosis 4 on my car radio. I was so struck by its beauty and drama that I couldn't wait for it to be over so the announcer would tell me what I was listening to I went home and ordered the album immediately. I was already familiar with some Philip Glass operas, but i had no idea he was such a brilliant pianist and composer for the piano. Read more. 6 people found this helpful. The title of five of the seven tracks, Metamorphosis, refers to and was inspired by the 1915 short story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. While all pieces were written in 1988, some were written for a staging of Metamorphosis, while others were for a documentary film called The Thin Blue Line directed by Errol Morris. Mad Rush was written in 1979 and is based on an earlier organ piece it was later used by the choreographer Lucinda Childs