Artist: Valentina Lisitsa
Album: Valentina Lisitsa Plays Philip Glass
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2015
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 02:44:04
Total Tracks: 24
Total Size: 2,90 GB

Tracklist:

01. Valentina Lisitsa – Glassworks: Opening (06:08)
02. Valentina Lisitsa – Truman Sleeps (‘The Truman Show’) (02:40)
03. Valentina Lisitsa – The Hours – Arr. Michael Riesman: The Poet Acts (04:01)
04. Valentina Lisitsa – The Hours – Arr. Michael Riesman: Morning Passages (06:09)
05. Valentina Lisitsa – How Now (29:52)
06. Valentina Lisitsa – The Hours – Arr. Michael Riesman: Something She Has To Do (03:59)
07. Valentina Lisitsa – The Hours – Arr. Michael Riesman: I’m Going To Make A Cake (03:20)
08. Valentina Lisitsa – Olympian: Lighting Of The Torch (03:31)
09. Valentina Lisitsa – Mad Rush (16:17)
10. Valentina Lisitsa – The Hours – Arr. Michael Riesman: Dead Things (04:41)
11. Valentina Lisitsa – The Hours – Arr. Michael Riesman: Tearing Herself Away (05:14)
12. Valentina Lisitsa – Wichita Sutra Vortex (07:22)
13. Valentina Lisitsa – The Hours – Arr. Michael Riesman: Escape! (04:34)
14. Valentina Lisitsa – The Hours – Arr. Michael Riesman: Chosing Life (04:42)
15. Valentina Lisitsa – The Hours (07:46)
16. Valentina Lisitsa – Metamorphosis One (07:40)
17. Valentina Lisitsa – Metamorphosis Two (08:25)
18. Valentina Lisitsa – Metamorphosis Three (05:39)
19. Valentina Lisitsa – Metamorphosis Four (08:28)
20. Valentina Lisitsa – Metamorphosis Five (06:45)
21. Valentina Lisitsa – Closing (‘Mishima’) (03:38)
22. Valentina Lisitsa – The Hours – Arr. Michael Riesman: An Unwelcome Friend (04:51)
23. Valentina Lisitsa – The Hours – Arr. Michael Riesman: Why Does Someone Have To Die? (04:48)
24. Valentina Lisitsa – Truman Sleeps (‘The Truman Show’) (03:24)

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Cutting-edge pianist meets trendsetting composer: Valentina Lisitsa, whose artistry has bewitched audiences around the world, is releasing a double album selection of works for solo piano by Philip Glass, whose brand of minimalism has made him one of the most influential composers of our time. Valentina Lisitsa plays Philip Glass (Decca) is a stunning collection of Glass’s piano works, performed by Lisitsa with the grace and understanding of a true minimalist interpreter.

Music on the album includes tracks from Stephen Daldry’s BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated film The Hours, using the building blocks of minimalism to achieve a huge, inventive soundscape of musical richness and contrasts. The most substantial piece in the collection is the mesmerising 30-minute How Now, one of the first compositions written for the Philip Glass Ensemble in 1968. Also featured is Metamorphosis, a five-movement work of music for a theatrical adaptation of Kafka’s play of the same name. Other works featured include the iconic Mad Rush, which Glass performed at the first public appearance of the 14th Dalai Lama in New York City in 1981 and Mishima / Closing, part of the soundtrack to the 1985 film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.

Richly harmonic, this collection of definitive Glass is a deeply evocative listening experience, with revelatory performances from Lisitsa. She captures the essential beauty in Glass’s circular melodies and the drama he infuses into his minimalistic approach.