Philip Glass: Complete Piano Etudes (2CDs)

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Philip Glass: Complete Piano Etudes (2CDs)SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Music for solo piano played a peripheral role during the first three decades of Philip Glasss composing career, but from the 1990s onward he was increasingly in demand for solo performances of his own music. Keen both to provide himself with new repertoire and to develop his technical skills as a pianist, he set to work on Book 1 of what would eventually become a set of twenty etudes whose virtuosic surfaces conceal

Boasting commendably truthful sound and balance this issue has already afforded me enormous pleasure and should not be missed"

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Number of tracks: 54

all are imbued with an independent

particularly in the softer passages where his nuanced delivery creates moments of profound beauty

whether it’s a Handel aria or Scots folk tune"

Recorded on 9-10 April 2007 at Crichton Collegiate Church

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playfulness and innocence

Recordings of music by Hafliði Hallgrímsson and Thomas Wilson have followed

arrangements and homages – has been so carefully conceived and knitted together that it’s a winner before you even hear a note

where it was recorded earlier this year