Jeroen Van Veen - Glass: Solo Piano Music '2013

Tracks list

Tracklist

CD1
01. Glassworks, Opening (Arr. Jeroen van Veen)
02. Metamorphosis: No. 1 —
03. Metamorphosis: No. 2 —
04. Metamorphosis: No. 3 —
05. Metamorphosis: No. 4 —
06. Metamorphosis: No. 5 —
07. Mad Rush
08. Wichita Vortex Sutra
09. Glassworks, Opening No. 1

CD2
10. The Hours: The Poet Acts
11. The Hours: Morning Passages
12. The Hours: Something She Has to Do
13. The Hours: Im Going to Make a Cake
14. The Hours: An Unwelcome Friend
15. The Hours: Dead Things
16. The Hours: Why Does Someone Have to Die?
17. The Hours: Tearing Herself Away
18. The Hours: Escape!
19. The Hours: Choosing Life
20. The Hours: The Hours
21. The Truman Show: Truman Sleeps
22. Glassworks, Opening No. 2
23. Olympian

CD3
24. Modern Love Waltz
25. How Now
26. Trilogy Sonata: I. Einstein on the Beach - Knee Play No. 4
27. Trilogy Sonata: II. Satyagraha - Act III Conclusion
28. Trilogy Sonata: III. Akhnaten - Dance, from Scene 3



Accepted onto the early admissions programme of the University of Chicago,
Philip Glass graduated aged just nineteen with a degree in Mathematics and
Philosophy, practising the piano in his spare time. Subsequently studying at the
Juilliard School, Glass’s name has since become synonymous with the
minimalist style. His film compositions have earned him a Golden Globe as well
as three Academy Award nominations.

This selection of pieces showcases Glass’s music for solo piano, with
each of the works baring the hallmarks of minimalism. Among the pieces featured
in the collection is Metamorphosis, a set of five variations that evolve over
the course of the entire work to create a stirring final movement. Also present
are extracts from the soundtrack of Stephen Daldry’s film The Hours, as
well as ‘Truman Sleeps’ from The Truman Show (which earned Glass a
Golden Globe award for ‘Best Original Score’). The collection ends
with the ‘Trilogy’ Sonata, containing piano transcriptions of
Glass’s three ‘portrait’ operas: Einstein on the Beach,
Satyagraha and Akhnaten.

Dutch pianist and composer Jeroen Van Veen studied at the Utrecht Conservatory
and has played with many orchestras throughout Europe and the USA, under
renowned conductors such as Howard Williams, Peter Eötvös and Robert
Craft. An accomplished recitalist, van Veen has also appeared at festivals
including the Reder Piano Festival and the Festival der Kunsten (Bad
Gleichenberg). His compositional style is closely related to minimalism, and
contains elements of jazz, blues and pop music.

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