Philip Glass: Mad Rush
Lisa Moore (piano)
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The [2015] album from star new music pianist Lisa Moore captures iconic piano works from the catalogue of Philip Glass including Mad Rush, Metamorphosis Nos. I-V, Etude No.2, the finale from Glass' opera Satyagraha and Closing from the Glass classic Glassworks. Lisa Moore is the preeminent new music pianist of her time having played with or for the foremost composers and ensembles of the past half-century. Her journey to the solo piano repertoire of Philip Glass is propitious as there's a growing interest in this most intimate part of a very public composer's body of work. Moore is the ideal advocate and interpreter.
"what becomes abundantly clear from listening to almost any bar on this recording is Moore's highly developed, intuitive and nuanced approach to this music, one which has been allowed to evolve..." —