Un opéra en quatre actes pour ensemble, choeur et solistes de partition complète du compositeur minimaliste Philip Glass. Il est le premier opéra de longue et de verre, en prenant environ cinq heures pour terminer, sans entracte. Etant donné la nature de la musique - la répétition de longues petits éléments, le développement très progressif et de changement, modèles récurrents - les membres du pub…

La première performance de cette sonate en trilogie a été faite par l'arrangeur et pianiste Paul Barnes le 19 avril 2001. La sonate consiste en des transcriptions de la trilogie de 'portraits' d'opéras par Philip Glass : Einstein on the Beach (1976), Satyagraha (1980), et Akhnaten (1984). Convient aux pianistes de niveau avancé. / Piano

From Einstein On The Beach-Einstein On The Beach the opera from which Knee Play 3 was extracted was a seminal work that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long.Knee Play 3 is one of the number songs composed for scene changes using numbers and solfege syllables as text. American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebr…

Einstein On The Beach the opera from which Knee Play 5 was extracted was a seminal work that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long.Knee Play 5 is one of the number songs composed for scene changes using numbers and solfege syllables as text.American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of the most celebrated influential and prolifi…

Einstein On The Beach the opera from which Knee Play 2 was extracted was a seminal work that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long.Knee Play 2 is one of the number songs composed for scene changes simply set to Organ and using numbers and solfege syllables as text. American composer Philip Glass is widely known as one of themost celebrated…

Einstein on the Beach was a seminal work of opera that broke all the rules being non-linear non-narrative episodic dreamlike and five hours long. A collaborative creation between Glass and theatrical director Robert Wilson it was described by one critic as ‘a mixture of mathematical clarity and mystical allure’. The subject of the play is the life of Albert Einstein. The subject of this…

Composer Philip Glass returned to composition for chamber ensemble after several years of work for films ballet opera and solo instruments. Four Movements For Two Pianos was commissioned by hislong-time advocate the conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies and pianist Maki Namakawa and after the success of this piece at the Ruhr Piano Festival the pair decided to continue performing as a du…

Philip Glass was approached by timpanist Jonathan Haas to write a timpani concerto for himself nearly ten years before Glass was finally able to get down to it. The timpani concerto ‘grew up’ into a double concerto for twotimpanists and nine timpani in total in three movements with a pair of cadenzas which are usually added onto the third movement. As is often the case with Glass’s music …