Starting today, *Metamorphosis* are available in all major streaming services Listen / Love / Share: album.link/T6mHCbPks7X4w I prepared this release to celebrate 4 million streams of this composition in my interpretation on TH-cam (a bit late though, because the number of views has grown since then). After several unlucky attempts to make this recording on different instruments and in different studios I returned to the same living room and the same piano - Steinway & Sons model O made in 1926. I can not possibly explain this, but despite all the obvious technical obstacles that stand before you while recording in a regular room, with all the uncontrolled reflections, with the old piano in poor condition which makes you suffer a lot, with all the additional vibrations, rattling strings, hammers that require voicing, with a creaking chair - it turns out to be exactly how I perceive this music. So, one piano, 2 microphones, beloved Philip Glass, and my personal story with the place where this record session took place.
Since 1982, Phillip Glass has been my one inspirational musical companion while writing poetry .. this is a stunning reawakening of all the emotions that I’ve felt with every line. 🙏
In 1980 I worked selling toe shoes for ballet dancers in New York City. One Saturday morning this guy comes in and asked for some shoes for his daughter's ballet class. We engaged in conversation about music and he invited me to see him play the piano the next day afternoon in a concert to raise funds for Tibet. It was in a church around the store where I worked. That is how I met Philip Glass. Ironically what impacted me when I saw him arriving on stage that Sunday afternoon, was that he was wearing old blue jeans and a working man's shirt. It was a total new way for me to be around a "classical" environment
Played this to my mother who is in a hospice with late stage cancer, she had the night terrors and couldnt sleep, even with heavy medication. She slowly slipped off into a deep sleep half way through, with a faint smile on her face. Thankyou coversart.
That is great to read about PG wearing Jeans and that shirt at the performance, because I'm going to perform this at the Chopin Salon in Warsaw on July 4 and don't have any fancy clothes - I'm going to tell them this story :)
Hi , I m a Sonographer MD and every day I begin in my offices with this piece, my patients thanks me for the music and I thank you. Some times my work it is not about "good news"· but the music helps me to create an atmosphere of care. We need more concerts in the hospitals and less TV !!!
Played this to my mother who is in a hospice with late stage cancer, she had the night terrors and couldnt sleep, even with heavy medication. She slowly slipped off into a deep sleep half way through, with a faint smile on her face. Thankyou coversart.
I hope the music gave her peace. I played Rachmaninoff for my aging grandmother in her last days. she was being given a lot of morphine and my playing helped her slip into the oblivion. she could let go by the end of the piece. I guess she had never heard The Prelude of the Bells before.
master of repetitions. if art could mimic the repetitiveness of being alive it’d be a clause on a sheet written by Glass. the irony is you can repeatedly listen to this and still want to listen again like you never stop repeating a breath. Thank you Mr Glass.
I discovered his music in 2008 when I was 14. On an autumn afternoon, It was a very overcast rainy day in Los Angeles and I looked out my window to see the skyline gradually disappear into the dense rainy clouds. The rain was cold and when I opened the window I can smell it and feel the gusts of wind blowing in. Again, I listened to this album in Washington D.C. and Virginia on a very grey and rainy afternoon as I rode past the Potomac river and all the large government buildings - the music emphasizing the gravitas of their brutalist architecture. But for some reason it made me think of rainy days in New York before 9/11. So grey, cold, wet and melancholy, yet so beautiful and ethereal. A chilly nostalgia rains on me when I listen to this.
I met him in person he’s shy, brilliant and humble. I attended a 3 day Philip Glass event 5 years back. Such an honor to met him and he shook my hand. All of the people in the room didn’t even know anything about him. He literally walked past a lot of people to use the men’s restroom. I was waiting for my boyfriend who was in the restroom at the same time. He was so humble and kind. ❤
Many of you probably are aware already but Glass was commissioned by a Brazilian ballet company to compose the score for a production called "Aguas da Amazonia" Portions of Metamorphosis were interwoven into that score. It was performed by the acoustic ensemble Uakti and can found on their album 'Glass: Aguas Da Amazonia'
Never ever have I come across a composer who so immortalizes and reinforces the words of Victor Hugo.... “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”.
I live in a Brazilian favela. After 4 nights without sleeping for the funk's sound and all parties, this morning, September 7th I listen this music after a few years. Thank you for transport me to other world. Thank you for the peace. Thank you for all beautiful pieces that you did, mr. Glass.
Avesso às "Anitta", "Ivette" e todo o lixo musical produzido no Brasil nos últimos anos. Concordo contigo, "funk" é desestabilizador para seres pensantes. Boa sorte 😉
There's something about melancholy piano solos that reach right into my soul ;-; My fears are banished. My doubts are stilled. My mood carefully cradled and levelled.
Hauntingly beautiful and calming, was driving home late last night from work and came across this on the radio, parked in front of my house until it was over, couldn't stop listening to it.
I've been listening to Philip Glass since 1982, but your pace really moved me. Thank you. You're one of the few people who give each note its time and space . Especially the space between the notes.
the space between the notes is sacred - the instant when all things are possible. If you believe in a god, this is where they live. This interpretation of Metamorphosis moves me to tears.
Funny, I used to have this looping in a black Blazer of mine, first on the market, which I order with no identifying logos. It was the vehicle's theme song, for my Route 66 journeys of the heart
Absolutely admirable. It's like I can feel the pain of the metamorphosis in me at the same time of observe the relief of transformation. Art and music have their way of touching the soul as we need it
I hate hearing repetitive sounds, but this song makes me calm rather than mad. I discovered him because of our group project, it doesn't feel like one cause i did most of the work it's about a research about composers of the 20th century and i was like "why not search up their songs for reference?" Glad i did cause the songs of the composers I've heard so far is into my likings. I've always liked listening to solo piano songs but i didn't expect to love it this much, it reminds me of the time when i wanted to study how to play piano but couldn't cause it's expensive and my top priority back then was to get high grades so even if i could've afforded it i wouldn't be able to study it anyways. I hope somewhere near or even if it's far from the future i hope i could study how to play piano and play beautiful songs like this too. I mean it's never too late to learn new things
could play this all by memory crica 2010. Played my whole life up to that point, and then for some reason I moved that year to an apartment, never got a digital piano and never played again. Life has a way of getting us off track. This was the last piece II had mastered, and I am back reliving it as I literally take the plastic off my new piano in my new house.
Este hombre propuso un prototipo de composición simple para que otros como Rick Wakeman o Vangelis la usaran a modo de ADN Para fundar la transgresión lirica, como lo fue y lo es, el Rock Sinfonico...
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You don't know me, but you have been with me as I write my thesis. When my brain needed a bittersweet jolt to aid reflection, your interpretation of Glass' incomparable imagination provided just what I needed to get through the countless hours. Thank you!
I heard Metamorphosis One first during the BSG episode Valley of Darkness. I'm pleased that I can listen to more of Philip Glass' amazing work here. Thank you!
He clearly inspired some of the best contemporary composers tho. Might be worth more to him than "attention" they don't all do art to flatter their ego. He's not your "struggling artist" he's vastly regarded as one of the most influential musician of the late 20th. He chose minimalism. He studied at Julliard and even got a Fullbright scholarship so i guess professionals perceived his potential and through the decades his talent as been recognized all over world as he got to work with many many operas, symphonic ensemble and artists. Bottom line is...have some fucking respect the man's a legend not a mainstream candyman.
I attended Philip Glass's first concerts in Paris and right away was mesmerized by his compositions; now my son is a great admirer of his work as well.
Me too, for the Festival d'Automne, it was amazing, a wonder, au Centre Culturel du Marais and before I went for the première of Einstein of the Beach at the Opera Comique.
The unbelievable power of music, as a visual artist I am often in awe of how visceral and powerful music is. Hitting our emotions and feelings so much more directly often than any painting can.
I remember the first time I listen to Glass. It was like "what is happening to me ? I didn't knew these emotions before". Years after, I feel exactly the same effect
I had the fortune of listening to him playing this very album in Lisbon in early 90's and i still can feel getting lost in nowhere and the music filling the space as a unique existing presence. Woooowwwww
you can say "I had the misfortune of" but not "I had the fortune of" - it is what linguists call a polarised expression, sadly there is no general rule that explains why this is so. you can say e.g. "I was fortunate enough to"
I originally came for the reason that Person of Interest played this song. Now each time whenever I play this song, it has a new meaning. I lost almost all of my friends, I changed schools, my love cheated on me, I had issues with my mom, continuing problems with my father; I broke and I wept for almost an hour. On one windy and cloudy afternoon as I was listening to Metamorphosis 5, I realized something. I realized that I don't really need to worry about all those friends I've lost, because in the end they never cared. Losing my best friend hurt, because all that happened was that I was being pushed away. I lost my other best friend, because he thought I was trying to "get at" him. I've lost a few family members, and a place where I thought was safe is just as bad as I thought - maybe even worse. Playing this song was a bit emotional for me, but also helpful; for the reason that I got to relive some of the memories that helped me. It sucks because majority of those friends helped shape me, my father is just someone who will never grow up and always stay in the past. I will grow and move, and since they're no longer with me, it has to be without them
What a marvel... It's like Clair de lune on a sorrowful morn, Erik Satie just chilling musing at the world shifting as it all walks by an empty cafe, then Beethoven arises from apparent nothingness then with fragrant wild hair casts the Earth into a beauty beholden to a tremendous terror. Just wonderful.
This particular piece has grown with me over time. I keep taking away different meanings as my life continues to change. sometimes hopeless, sometimes full of hope. I suppose there is a particular beauty in the repetition that is hard to describe. I hope to see it live sometime.
Anyone who has seen the movie or read the book "The Hours" can appreciate Phillip glass's fine music. It is extremely fitting. When I cease to live I would surely like this music playing, as it's heavenly. Also it helped me with the loss of a loved one, even before my actual loss.
I just saw the movie and my plan is to write my Advanced Directives to say I want his music from The Hours played at my memorial. I have not been so moved by music in so long. The tears and sobs would not cease....
That piano sounds. Nothing short of magical. Old pianos really sound so much sharper and more refined.. like a well-loved piece of wooden furniture - all the soft parts are worn away with wonderful stories, all the seams, joints, and grain are as dark as the most mysterious unknown, the tones are clear and carry forever unmuffled... your interpretation of Glass really showcases the output of such a fine instrument with an almost synaesthetic response in my perception. This is full of win!
As wood ages, it gets drier and drier and this causes the cell walls shrink even further. This shrinkage and loss of even more water (wood is put into a dry box before building an instrument to get it down to 7%) allows the sound waves to travels even better along the woodgrain. This is why older instruments sound better and better with age.
listen to this so often while developing pictures in my bathroom and to see a photo emerge from nothing during on of the climaxes makes me marvel about the entire world at once. truly great piece and excellent performance
Glass's whole musical world is that of the mesmerist. From the first, his work completely captured me. The Photographer was my introduction. I have continued to be mesmerized by his work, and how it has developed over so many years. Yes, some of the work does not reach the best of him -- The Tirol Concerto, etc. But his prolific output, when listened to in progression shows that he is truly one of our great composers. From classical compositions to film scores, he intrigues every time. At least this listener. Yes, it is work that needs attention -- close attention to its subtle but very real changes. But would you call Monet repetitive? Not if you actually see the those magnificent lilies in front of you. For me, it is the same with Glass. He does for my ear what Monet does for my eyes. If one listens closely, you can't help hearing the influence of Chopin's 'Nocturnes' in this work. His classical training is obvious. This video is even more compelling to watch because of all the hand work -- you can see the composition become visually alive. It's a superb performance.
This is such an absolutely beautiful piece and you perform it so well. Thank you. I listen to you play this every time I sit down at my computer. Today it just makes me weep. Phillip Glass music has a way of reaching down into the depths of my soul.
at first i was thinking to read some essays and use this album as the background music, but i couldn't, i just can't help to stop what am doing and sink in the music to feel deep in it. It was so beautiful, one just simply can't ignore this beauty lies behind the lyrics.
One of my graphic design teachers would play music while we worked. Every class she asked what we wanted to hear and no one ever spoke up so I just always said Philip Glass.
I don’t agree with the critics’ description of Philip Glass’ music. This music if full of life, lows and highs, passion, intrigue. If you don’t hear this in this music you’re not getting it. I can’t believe you can be a music critic and not be able to hear! It is of the highest finesse how he puts in this much emotion in his "repetitive" music And that’s why it’s so beautiful!
i have just discovered this channel after following Philip Glass since 1979, thank you so much for these wonderful, delicate and difficult interpretations!
God I keep coming back to this performance... in particular Metamorphosis 2... the tempo, strength, accuracy, pulse, evenness, and endurance are just staggering. So many great performances out there, that are genuinely musical and moving, are blemished by sloppy right hand arpeggios and too much rubato (in particular on the entrance and exit of those fast arpeggios). (Just watched the arps at 0.25 speed. Such a solid pinky and not relying too heavily on a wrist roll. And I’m so envious you manage to play the high arps with a 1245 fingering and manage to articulate the fourth finger. I tend to fall back on 1235 because I have a hard time keeping a steady pace and articulation 4 and 5. But doing so really strains my tendons in my right arm while practicing for any length on time. Guess I have to work harder on my 4/5 independence and strength as I’m clearly hitting a glass ceiling with 3/5. When you began studying the piece did you ever try out a 1235 fingering? If so, what made you commit to 1245? Or was 4/5 always the clear choice for you?)
Haven't listened to as much Glass as I should, but I've always enjoyed his work. Always saw Philip Glass as a minimalist Bach, systematic theme and variation. The expressiveness here makes me see him as more romantic, perhaps Beethoven, Chopin,Wagner, Debussy. You know it's a good performance when it changes the way you see the composer.
I think anyone composing today has many, many, many years or decades or centuries of "styles" available flowing through the blood/DNA. I think we have to always caveat our tendency to box in ANY modern composer - box in a composer when it comes to style or comparing him/her to a composer from the past. It's natural for us to want to pigeonhole any composer. This is the post-everything period. Post-post-post! :-) Renaissance, Baroque, romantic, post-romantic, 12-tone, and any other style you can think of is alive in modern music. Some music (a lot of music) is composed/published every year that is not worth our time - or, is it? The long and short of it is, I like to approach new compositions with an open mind - as open as I can, at least. I just realize that we ALL have a reaction to new material that can be instantaneous and that sometimes - many times - I find my first reaction is not what is true for me after another listening (or 2 or 3). My quartet has performed several of the Glass Quartets and loves them. Just the other day a couple of us were reminiscing and we agreed that some of the best times - most enjoyable times - was practicing and performing Glass!
True about the styles. Getting 4 people to agree on how the approach Glass must have been challenging! His deceptive simplicity must make it tempting to embellish.
@@georgetate6055 вы так глубоко правы.. Музыка тот неземной язык,который проходит сквозь время и пространство в своей кодировке.Этот язык удивительным образом достигает души как комета или ангел после задания к Богу..я считаю композиторов волшебниками.Поклон им и благодарность за слезы и волнения души!❤
Covers, your sense of timing is extraordinary. This is, in my opinion, a near perfect rendition. Very nicely done and thank you very much for posting this here.
Wow what a performance! You have opened up my eyes to the beauty of Phillip Glass! It’s dark, mysterious, haunting, and beautiful all at the same time! I need to discover more of his work! Thank you for this! I’m going to learn this piece!
I love Philip's operas, his piano music..all his music. He played piano in our small city, Norwich UK. What a privilege. Playing and hearing his piano music is a huge solace during this dreadful pandemic. Just so marvellous. Sending this with huge appreciation and love to the wonderful composer.
Metamorphosis 1: The low notes evoke such rich sound. First time I played this, I wasn't watching only half paying attention; for a second I thought there was a string section coming in there. Now as I watch carefully I'm hanging as I watch your right hand reach across. Sonorous tone and great interpretation. Thanks for this!
Astounded by the beauty of this music. I hadn't heard any of Philip Glass's works before, clicked on the video because I liked the photo in black and white. Indeed that's the spirit of the music too- unnecessary detail stripped away so that one can focus the mind on just a few ideas. It almost felt like Indian classical music in spirit, in that the left hand mimics the role the tanpura plays while the right hand takes care of melody and rhythm both. Mesmerizing experience, thank you for opening up a new vista for me.
Dark and beautiful at the same time. I have been playing the piano for 43 years and also teach. I have several students that are now discovering Philip Glass's music. It's great music to teach students how to feel,control and articulate their emotions. I love it and my students love it! Great job to the pianist!
Music that saturates my emotions with memory and some regrets. Deeply moving and the reason why music -along with poetry- is an almost divine activity. I think of Rilke. I think of Yeats. Glass clarifies their imagery.
Rilke is really something isn't he? I've learned so much from his poetry and prose. I love that interpretation of Glass' piano as a form of their imagery. Have you ever read Robert Boy? Probably most influenced by Rilke and Yeats in many ways.
Poetry is very different to music, however, in that its emotional impact is more often than not due to a more or less conscious interpretation of the words rather than the inherent musicality in the words and their rhythms. The latter can enhance the emotions but are seldom the main carrier of them unless you pick words only for their musicality and not for their semantic content, put them together in a repetitive pattern until you forget what the word might have originally meant and just experience the rhythm and melody of them, which would be a poetic equivalence of a Glass piece, I guess. I don't know of any poets who makes such poetry, though I am sure there would be some who do.
@Richard Signore, I totally agree with you. Music and poetry dive deep in our soul and bring us back meaning, images and symbols that remind our shares humanity.
I do not remember exactly which composition lo so many years ago now that first drew me to Glass but I have been enthused ever since. So captivating. Oddly, I find comfort in Glass; room to breathe and think in the repetitiveness. I saw him in concert and it was wonderful.
We were just learning about Modernism in English class, and I brought up how minimalist music kinda has the same sort of properties as Modernist literature, mentioning Philip Glass specifically. I had no clue that this song was directly inspired by "The Metamorphosis," arguably the most well known Modernist story!
Hello I'm listening to this because I have a music exam. Usually with the other pieces I'm assigned I don't really enjoy them, but this one moved me and made me appreciate the art of musique. Thank you.
Beautifully played. The filming/ close up of the playing is equally riveting. Something you don't/can't see in concerts. The slow release of the keys at the end of the piece and slight hovering over the notes took my breath away.
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You're not wrong. The jank makes these renditions feel vibrant and alive in a way that's rare nowadays. Thanks for your commitment to doing things the hard way :)
This has always been one of my favourite works of Glass; like it even more than the Glassworks. Even better is the fact that this particular interpretation is superb; exquisite.
I hear this music ever since I've been in Kafka museum in Prague... Also right now when I'm reading "Process" and also thinking about "The Castle". It's masterpiece🙏
Seven+1 weeks ago we discovered our female cat Macka sitting in front of a big TV screen full of Philip Glass music Metamorphosic. She was glued to the tv screen for more than 33 minutes...Me too...🎶
With today being Veterans Day I listened to Adagio for Strings, op11 by Samuel Barber. It was performed by a pianist who conducted it on September 15th 2001. I saw it live on TV from London in 2001. Its on you tube. I cried my eyes out. Then right after that video a pianist named Nobuuki Tsujii wrote and composed "Elegy for the victims of the Tsuami of March 11, 2011. It was so sad and he cried throughout the whole song as tears dripped down on his piano keys. And now I find Philip Glass. Piano solos have so much feeling and yes these are sad yet beautiful. 11/11/2017
Sam -- thank you for sharing -- The experience of The True Divine is beyond words to describe, nonetheless: "Last night I dreamt I saw the Sun. I knew it was the Sun Because it was Warm, and gave Light, And because it brought Tears to my eyes."
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Starting today, *Metamorphosis* are available in all major streaming services
Listen / Love / Share: album.link/T6mHCbPks7X4w
I prepared this release to celebrate 4 million streams of this composition in my interpretation on TH-cam (a bit late though, because the number of views has grown since then). After several unlucky attempts to make this recording on different instruments and in different studios I returned to the same living room and the same piano - Steinway & Sons model O made in 1926. I can not possibly explain this, but despite all the obvious technical obstacles that stand before you while recording in a regular room, with all the uncontrolled reflections, with the old piano in poor condition which makes you suffer a lot, with all the additional vibrations, rattling strings, hammers that require voicing, with a creaking chair - it turns out to be exactly how I perceive this music. So, one piano, 2 microphones, beloved Philip Glass, and my personal story with the place where this record session took place.
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Since 1982, Phillip Glass has been my one inspirational musical companion while writing poetry .. this is a stunning reawakening of all the emotions that I’ve felt with every line. 🙏
Thank you so much. Philip's music transports us into another world.
How is the complete name of the pianist?
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In 1980 I worked selling toe shoes for ballet dancers in New York City. One Saturday morning this guy comes in and asked for some shoes for his daughter's ballet class. We engaged in conversation about music and he invited me to see him play the piano the next day afternoon in a concert to raise funds for Tibet. It was in a church around the store where I worked. That is how I met Philip Glass. Ironically what impacted me when I saw him arriving on stage that Sunday afternoon, was that he was wearing old blue jeans and a working man's shirt. It was a total new way for me to be around a "classical" environment
+Victor Morgado wow, Victor! Thanks for sharing your story with us!
Played this to my mother who is in a hospice with late stage cancer, she had the night terrors and couldnt sleep, even with heavy medication. She slowly slipped off into a deep sleep half way through, with a faint smile on her face. Thankyou coversart.
This story is a testament to what an amazing place New York is.
That is great to read about PG wearing Jeans and that shirt at the performance, because I'm going to perform this at the Chopin Salon in Warsaw on July 4 and don't have any fancy clothes - I'm going to tell them this story :)
Wonderful story!
Hi , I m a Sonographer MD and every day I begin in my offices with this piece, my patients thanks me for the music and I thank you. Some times my work it is not about "good news"· but the music helps me to create an atmosphere of care. We need more concerts in the hospitals and less TV !!!
Thank you very much for that. It is a very magic, theta music ready to help a better future to create.
Однозначно!
I truly hate television/screens at hospitals, dentists, etc. Love the idea of having quality, healing music instead!
True, I wish classical music and contemporary music like this was played in shops instead of that other stuff.
I couldn't agree more, Isaac!!
Played this to my mother who is in a hospice with late stage cancer, she had the night terrors and couldnt sleep, even with heavy medication. She slowly slipped off into a deep sleep half way through, with a faint smile on her face. Thankyou coversart.
+RJ Moore You are most welcome. I wish you strength and courage.
God bless you.
you provided a bright light amongst the darkness. god bless you and your mother.
That's heavy...i wish u strenght.
I hope the music gave her peace. I played Rachmaninoff for my aging grandmother in her last days. she was being given a lot of morphine and my playing helped her slip into the oblivion. she could let go by the end of the piece. I guess she had never heard The Prelude of the Bells before.
master of repetitions. if art could mimic the repetitiveness of being alive it’d be a clause on a sheet written by Glass. the irony is you can repeatedly listen to this and still want to listen again like you never stop repeating a breath. Thank you Mr Glass.
Well said!
It’s called minimalism.
"Happy happy happy, everybody is happy."
Wonderful way to say it. And I agree. It's mesmerizing.
Ole! 👏
I see there are many of us commenting who find Glass to be our best accompaniment for focus on work. It's almost magical.
This is by far the best cover performance of Metamorphosis on the net.
Thank you, Jorge!
It’s good to listen to this on the harp just blows me away
I discovered his music in 2008 when I was 14. On an autumn afternoon, It was a very overcast rainy day in Los Angeles and I looked out my window to see the skyline gradually disappear into the dense rainy clouds. The rain was cold and when I opened the window I can smell it and feel the gusts of wind blowing in. Again, I listened to this album in Washington D.C. and Virginia on a very grey and rainy afternoon as I rode past the Potomac river and all the large government buildings - the music emphasizing the gravitas of their brutalist architecture. But for some reason it made me think of rainy days in New York before 9/11. So grey, cold, wet and melancholy, yet so beautiful and ethereal. A chilly nostalgia rains on me when I listen to this.
You've touched my imagination three years later. Art is contagious and far reaching in the best way...this music...your words. Thank you 💋
I met him in person he’s shy, brilliant and humble. I attended a 3 day Philip Glass event 5 years back. Such an honor to met him and he shook my hand. All of the people in the room didn’t even know anything about him. He literally walked past a lot of people to use the men’s restroom. I was waiting for my boyfriend who was in the restroom at the same time. He was so humble and kind. ❤
Many of you probably are aware already but Glass was commissioned by a Brazilian ballet company to compose the score for a production called "Aguas da Amazonia" Portions of Metamorphosis were interwoven into that score. It was performed by the acoustic ensemble Uakti and can found on their album 'Glass: Aguas Da Amazonia'
True!🎉
Never ever have I come across a composer who so immortalizes and reinforces the words of Victor Hugo....
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”.
I live in a Brazilian favela. After 4 nights without sleeping for the funk's sound and all parties, this morning, September 7th I listen this music after a few years. Thank you for transport me to other world. Thank you for the peace. Thank you for all beautiful pieces that you did, mr. Glass.
Avesso às "Anitta", "Ivette" e todo o lixo musical produzido no Brasil nos últimos anos. Concordo contigo, "funk" é desestabilizador para seres pensantes. Boa sorte 😉
There's something about melancholy piano solos that reach right into my soul ;-;
My fears are banished. My doubts are stilled. My mood carefully cradled and levelled.
I couldn't have said it better. I feel exactly the same. Have you listened to Arvo Part's ALINA?
@@anthonydimichele837 No, though I have listened to Arvo Part's Spiegel Im Spiegel... which... is beyond my capacity to describe adaquately.
Hauntingly beautiful and calming, was driving home late last night from work and came across this on the radio, parked in front of my house until it was over, couldn't stop listening to it.
yes, I understand....it is so much theta. It is like life in the best way.
I know a piece has "got me" when my mind is playing it on waking.
Oh how I wish all countries have such radio...
I've been listening to Philip Glass since 1982, but your pace really moved me. Thank you. You're one of the few people who give each note its time and space . Especially the space between the notes.
Yes, as important as the note is the space between - like life's great moments, the pause for reflection in between is as sweet.
the space between the notes is sacred - the instant when all things are possible. If you believe in a god, this is where they live. This interpretation of Metamorphosis moves me to tears.
Asked to write a piece that never ends, Glass nailed it.
Funny, I used to have this looping in a black Blazer of mine, first on the market, which I order with no identifying logos. It was the vehicle's theme song, for my Route 66 journeys of the heart
I'm an "old" man, but about 30/40 years ago i discovered Philip Glass.. still today is always great. Hoping also for new generation
Of course! we love him!
Absolutely admirable. It's like I can feel the pain of the metamorphosis in me at the same time of observe the relief of transformation. Art and music have their way of touching the soul as we need it
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I hate hearing repetitive sounds, but this song makes me calm rather than mad. I discovered him because of our group project, it doesn't feel like one cause i did most of the work it's about a research about composers of the 20th century and i was like "why not search up their songs for reference?" Glad i did cause the songs of the composers I've heard so far is into my likings. I've always liked listening to solo piano songs but i didn't expect to love it this much, it reminds me of the time when i wanted to study how to play piano but couldn't cause it's expensive and my top priority back then was to get high grades so even if i could've afforded it i wouldn't be able to study it anyways. I hope somewhere near or even if it's far from the future i hope i could study how to play piano and play beautiful songs like this too. I mean it's never too late to learn new things
could play this all by memory crica 2010. Played my whole life up to that point, and then for some reason I moved that year to an apartment, never got a digital piano and never played again. Life has a way of getting us off track. This was the last piece II had mastered, and I am back reliving it as I literally take the plastic off my new piano in my new house.
Good for you! Yes get back on the horse as it were 🙂🙏🏼
It’s amazing how wordless music can speak directly to your soul. Love love love this piece and everything else Phillip Glass has created.
Listen to the soundtracks on Powaqaatsi and Koyanisqaatsi...beautiful
Music is wordless, songs have lyrics.
Este hombre propuso un prototipo de composición simple para que otros como Rick Wakeman o Vangelis la usaran a modo de ADN Para fundar la transgresión lirica, como lo fue y lo es, el Rock Sinfonico...
Search for Alexandra Streliski you'll be even more amazed :)
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This music touches a place in my heart I previously knew not existed.
You don't know me, but you have been with me as I write my thesis. When my brain needed a bittersweet jolt to aid reflection, your interpretation of Glass' incomparable imagination provided just what I needed to get through the countless hours. Thank you!
was this one of these theses that you humanities people write, about how your roids itch?
@@DrWhom Why make more room for the asshole when you can fill the cart with heart?
@@DrWhom going by your other comments, you have a personality that makes stale bread seem exciting.
Finding solace here during the pandemic. Thank you.
God offers real solace.
Philip Glass is a musical genius in our lifetime with modernism in his music with classical undertones. Classical training is obvious.
I heard Metamorphosis One first during the BSG episode Valley of Darkness. I'm pleased that I can listen to more of Philip Glass' amazing work here. Thank you!
Absolutely essential for all P. Glass fanatics...marvelous interpretation of this powerful and hauting piece of art
totally agree, perfect interpretation, so much texture, really wonderful!
How is this like 'Ragas in Minor Scale?' You might broaden your exposure, mate! :)
Where is development?
Musicas de natal
He clearly inspired some of the best contemporary composers tho. Might be worth more to him than "attention" they don't all do art to flatter their ego. He's not your "struggling artist" he's vastly regarded as one of the most influential musician of the late 20th. He chose minimalism. He studied at Julliard and even got a Fullbright scholarship so i guess professionals perceived his potential and through the decades his talent as been recognized all over world as he got to work with many many operas, symphonic ensemble and artists. Bottom line is...have some fucking respect the man's a legend not a mainstream candyman.
I attended Philip Glass's first concerts in Paris and right away was mesmerized by his compositions; now my son is a great admirer of his work as well.
Me too, for the Festival d'Automne, it was amazing, a wonder, au Centre Culturel du Marais and before I went for the première of Einstein of the Beach at the Opera Comique.
Just cooked my self a good meal & have been listening to Philip Glass while eating it.
Lovely
You've breathed new life into this exquisite music - it feels like a living thing, like no version I've ever heard
The right hand asking the question
The left hand answering
The left hand asking
The right answering
Hans Zimmer explains his music in this context.
The unbelievable power of music, as a visual artist I am often in awe of how visceral and powerful music is. Hitting our emotions and feelings so much more directly often than any painting can.
I remember the first time I listen to Glass.
It was like "what is happening to me ? I didn't knew these emotions before".
Years after, I feel exactly the same effect
Silence in between hurts but that's live if you live it fully. Thank you for bringing the Light among us.
This play gives me comfort and solace ，and heals my tired mind , and melts away my suffering and sorrow , and purifies my stagnant soul .
@@奈良の鹿さん-y1z
あなたは誰?
Just two chords and my feelings are touched. It's such a sad and dignified piece of music. Hauntingly beautiful.
I had the fortune of listening to him playing this very album in Lisbon in early 90's and i still can feel getting lost in nowhere and the music filling the space as a unique existing presence. Woooowwwww
I saw him conducting an orchestra while playing "Powaqqatsi" in LIsbon and I was mesmerized. And become a fan. Until today.
you can say "I had the misfortune of" but not "I had the fortune of" - it is what linguists call a polarised expression, sadly there is no general rule that explains why this is so. you can say e.g. "I was fortunate enough to"
An extraordinary moment. I am not normally a Philip Glass lover but l keep on going back to his Metamorphosis - heart rending
Sometimes I listen to this twice in a row. It is haunting, sad yet deep and strangely uplifting.
There is sadness, but not despair. There is hope, a little hope, imbued in all this.
I originally came for the reason that Person of Interest played this song. Now each time whenever I play this song, it has a new meaning. I lost almost all of my friends, I changed schools, my love cheated on me, I had issues with my mom, continuing problems with my father; I broke and I wept for almost an hour. On one windy and cloudy afternoon as I was listening to Metamorphosis 5, I realized something. I realized that I don't really need to worry about all those friends I've lost, because in the end they never cared. Losing my best friend hurt, because all that happened was that I was being pushed away. I lost my other best friend, because he thought I was trying to "get at" him. I've lost a few family members, and a place where I thought was safe is just as bad as I thought - maybe even worse. Playing this song was a bit emotional for me, but also helpful; for the reason that I got to relive some of the memories that helped me. It sucks because majority of those friends helped shape me, my father is just someone who will never grow up and always stay in the past. I will grow and move, and since they're no longer with me, it has to be without them
wonderful story. thank you for sharing
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A true metamorphosis.
What a marvel...
It's like Clair de lune on a sorrowful morn, Erik Satie just chilling musing at the world shifting as it all walks by an empty cafe, then Beethoven arises from apparent nothingness then with fragrant wild hair casts the Earth into a beauty beholden to a tremendous terror. Just wonderful.
well said!
This particular piece has grown with me over time. I keep taking away different meanings as my life continues to change. sometimes hopeless, sometimes full of hope. I suppose there is a particular beauty in the repetition that is hard to describe. I hope to see it live sometime.
I have never heard this before but I have already listened to it about a dozen times. I am in love with its haunting embrace.
it makes me happy)
Метаморфозы как река, возле которой можно сидеть и смотреть долго долго. Река жизни...
Anyone who has seen the movie or read the book "The Hours" can appreciate Phillip glass's fine music. It is extremely fitting. When I cease to live I would surely like this music playing, as it's heavenly. Also it helped me with the loss of a loved one, even before my actual loss.
this music is so good that every movie fits this music.
I just saw the movie and my plan is to write my Advanced Directives to say I want his music from The Hours played at my memorial. I have not been so moved by music in so long. The tears and sobs would not cease....
My heart weeps for the 869 thumbs in the wrong direction.
See my reply above.
That piano sounds. Nothing short of magical. Old pianos really sound so much sharper and more refined.. like a well-loved piece of wooden furniture - all the soft parts are worn away with wonderful stories, all the seams, joints, and grain are as dark as the most mysterious unknown, the tones are clear and carry forever unmuffled... your interpretation of Glass really showcases the output of such a fine instrument with an almost synaesthetic response in my perception.
This is full of win!
As wood ages, it gets drier and drier and this causes the cell walls shrink even further. This shrinkage and loss of even more water (wood is put into a dry box before building an instrument to get it down to 7%) allows the sound waves to travels even better along the woodgrain. This is why older instruments sound better and better with age.
listen to this so often while developing pictures in my bathroom and to see a photo emerge from nothing during on of the climaxes makes me marvel about the entire world at once. truly great piece and excellent performance
Thank you, Jaap!
Glass's whole musical world is that of the mesmerist. From the first, his work completely captured me. The Photographer was my introduction. I have continued to be mesmerized by his work, and how it has developed over so many years. Yes, some of the work does not reach the best of him -- The Tirol Concerto, etc. But his prolific output, when listened to in progression shows that he is truly one of our great composers. From classical compositions to film scores, he intrigues every time. At least this listener. Yes, it is work that needs attention -- close attention to its subtle but very real changes. But would you call Monet repetitive? Not if you actually see the those magnificent lilies in front of you. For me, it is the same with Glass. He does for my ear what Monet does for my eyes. If one listens closely, you can't help hearing the influence of Chopin's 'Nocturnes' in this work. His classical training is obvious. This video is even more compelling to watch because of all the hand work -- you can see the composition become visually alive. It's a superb performance.
My daughter's music teacher made me discover that masterpiece during online class, when he was teaching the kids about repetitions and contrasts.
This is such an absolutely beautiful piece and you perform it so well. Thank you. I listen to you play this every time I sit down at my computer. Today it just makes me weep. Phillip Glass music has a way of reaching down into the depths of my soul.
My son (3 months old) and I listened to this together and LOVED it! He was kicking around and smiling so big. Thank you!
i love that part on 9:27. gets me every time. it's like the music is trying to get a feel for itself throughout its own uncertainty.
I am fanatic falling in love with this music. Thank you Mr Glass.
To compensate the repetitiveness, the lack of variation, the music must be absolutely beautiful - this is the essence of minimalism.
at first i was thinking to read some essays and use this album as the background music, but i couldn't, i just can't help to stop what am doing and sink in the music to feel deep in it. It was so beautiful, one just simply can't ignore this beauty lies behind the lyrics.
The first song I heard on the Person of Interest and had no idea it was Phillip Glass. Fantastic work! 👏
This piece was used in a Battlestar Galactica episode titled Valley of Darkness. Amazing matching of music with the mood of the scene in that episode.
One of my graphic design teachers would play music while we worked. Every class she asked what we wanted to hear and no one ever spoke up so I just always said Philip Glass.
haha! BelleFlower15, you are fantastic!
Well, in my case, I would probably alternate: a day with Philip Glass / then a day with Boards of Canada..
I don’t agree with the critics’ description of Philip Glass’ music. This music if full of life, lows and highs, passion, intrigue. If you don’t hear this in this music you’re not getting it. I can’t believe you can be a music critic and not be able to hear!
It is of the highest finesse how he puts in this much emotion in his "repetitive" music And that’s why it’s so beautiful!
Incredible performance. Loved every moment. Plan to listen again and again.🎹🎹
Thank you!
i have just discovered this channel after following Philip Glass since 1979, thank you so much for these wonderful, delicate and difficult interpretations!
God I keep coming back to this performance... in particular Metamorphosis 2... the tempo, strength, accuracy, pulse, evenness, and endurance are just staggering.
So many great performances out there, that are genuinely musical and moving, are blemished by sloppy right hand arpeggios and too much rubato (in particular on the entrance and exit of those fast arpeggios).
(Just watched the arps at 0.25 speed. Such a solid pinky and not relying too heavily on a wrist roll. And I’m so envious you manage to play the high arps with a 1245 fingering and manage to articulate the fourth finger. I tend to fall back on 1235 because I have a hard time keeping a steady pace and articulation 4 and 5. But doing so really strains my tendons in my right arm while practicing for any length on time. Guess I have to work harder on my 4/5 independence and strength as I’m clearly hitting a glass ceiling with 3/5. When you began studying the piece did you ever try out a 1235 fingering? If so, what made you commit to 1245? Or was 4/5 always the clear choice for you?)
Philip Glass shatters the ceiling on how music can be created constructed and imagined, beyond words.
So did sparks....
I’m in love with this pair of hands
Haven't listened to as much Glass as I should, but I've always enjoyed his work. Always saw Philip Glass as a minimalist Bach, systematic theme and variation. The expressiveness here makes me see him as more romantic, perhaps Beethoven, Chopin,Wagner, Debussy. You know it's a good performance when it changes the way you see the composer.
I think anyone composing today has many, many, many years or decades or centuries of "styles" available flowing through the blood/DNA. I think we have to always caveat our tendency to box in ANY modern composer - box in a composer when it comes to style or comparing him/her to a composer from the past. It's natural for us to want to pigeonhole any composer. This is the post-everything period. Post-post-post! :-)
Renaissance, Baroque, romantic, post-romantic, 12-tone, and any other style you can think of is alive in modern music. Some music (a lot of music) is composed/published every year that is not worth our time - or, is it?
The long and short of it is, I like to approach new compositions with an open mind - as open as I can, at least. I just realize that we ALL have a reaction to new material that can be instantaneous and that sometimes - many times - I find my first reaction is not what is true for me after another listening (or 2 or 3).
My quartet has performed several of the Glass Quartets and loves them. Just the other day a couple of us were reminiscing and we agreed that some of the best times - most enjoyable times - was practicing and performing Glass!
True about the styles. Getting 4 people to agree on how the approach Glass must have been challenging! His deceptive simplicity must make it tempting to embellish.
@@georgetate6055 вы так глубоко правы..
Музыка тот неземной язык,который проходит сквозь время и пространство в своей кодировке.Этот язык удивительным образом достигает души как комета или ангел после задания к Богу..я считаю композиторов волшебниками.Поклон им и благодарность за слезы и волнения души!❤
Philip Glass so evocative of unnameable, subtle yearnings and master of suspense .
Covers, your sense of timing is extraordinary. This is, in my opinion, a near perfect rendition. Very nicely done and thank you very much for posting this here.
This is such a masterpiece. I can't count how many times I've listened to it.
It's hard to deal with, sometimes, how much this music moves me. Thank you.
Thank you for listening, Kevin!
Thank you humanity, for sharing in this brief moment on a spec of dust in the great cosmic dance
One of the most simple and most beautifull pieces in excistance! 35 year old man, this can make me cry if i think about certain things.
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This is wonderful. And thank you so much for your detailed description of the song and how you made this recording.
Thanks for listening!
Wow what a performance! You have opened up my eyes to the beauty of Phillip Glass! It’s dark, mysterious, haunting, and beautiful all at the same time! I need to discover more of his work!
Thank you for this! I’m going to learn this piece!
I love Philip's operas, his piano music..all his music. He played piano in our small city, Norwich UK. What a privilege. Playing and hearing his piano music is a huge solace during this dreadful pandemic. Just so marvellous. Sending this with huge appreciation and love to the wonderful composer.
Wonderful performance and recording. Thanks for this.
Many thanks!
Metamorphosis 1: The low notes evoke such rich sound. First time I played this, I wasn't watching only half paying attention; for a second I thought there was a string section coming in there. Now as I watch carefully I'm hanging as I watch your right hand reach across. Sonorous tone and great interpretation. Thanks for this!
My six year old daughter loves watching this. Thank you for sharing!!
Astounded by the beauty of this music. I hadn't heard any of Philip Glass's works before, clicked on the video because I liked the photo in black and white. Indeed that's the spirit of the music too- unnecessary detail stripped away so that one can focus the mind on just a few ideas. It almost felt like Indian classical music in spirit, in that the left hand mimics the role the tanpura plays while the right hand takes care of melody and rhythm both. Mesmerizing experience, thank you for opening up a new vista for me.
Give the gift of classical music to your children it will be like best gift to live on in them this is a masterpiece 👌
Dark and beautiful at the same time. I have been playing the piano for 43 years and also teach. I have several students that are now discovering Philip Glass's music. It's great music to teach students how to feel,control and articulate their emotions. I love it and my students love it! Great job to the pianist!
Thank you, Dan!
Is it just me, or is this utter perfection?
It's you.
@@fingerhorn4 Nope. It's utter perfection.
Music that saturates my emotions with memory and some regrets. Deeply moving and the reason why music -along with poetry- is an almost divine activity. I think of Rilke. I think of Yeats. Glass clarifies their imagery.
Rilke is really something isn't he? I've learned so much from his poetry and prose.
I love that interpretation of Glass' piano as a form of their imagery.
Have you ever read Robert Boy? Probably most influenced by Rilke and Yeats in many ways.
Poetry is very different to music, however, in that its emotional impact is more often than not due to a more or less conscious interpretation of the words rather than the inherent musicality in the words and their rhythms. The latter can enhance the emotions but are seldom the main carrier of them unless you pick words only for their musicality and not for their semantic content, put them together in a repetitive pattern until you forget what the word might have originally meant and just experience the rhythm and melody of them, which would be a poetic equivalence of a Glass piece, I guess. I don't know of any poets who makes such poetry, though I am sure there would be some who do.
@@hakonsoreide me
@Richard Signore, I totally agree with you. Music and poetry dive deep in our soul and bring us back meaning, images and symbols that remind our shares humanity.
My favorite instrument. Love watching it being played.
I do not remember exactly which composition lo so many years ago now that first drew me to Glass but I have been enthused ever since. So captivating. Oddly, I find comfort in Glass; room to breathe and think in the repetitiveness. I saw him in concert and it was wonderful.
Thank you so much for this. I am listening to it while writing an assignment about emotions.... perfectly timed!
I've never heard anything like this - it's haunting, mesmerizing and infinitely sad.
We were just learning about Modernism in English class, and I brought up how minimalist music kinda has the same sort of properties as Modernist literature, mentioning Philip Glass specifically. I had no clue that this song was directly inspired by "The Metamorphosis," arguably the most well known Modernist story!
Hello I'm listening to this because I have a music exam. Usually with the other pieces I'm assigned I don't really enjoy them, but this one moved me and made me appreciate the art of musique. Thank you.
Beautifully played. The filming/ close up of the playing is equally riveting. Something you don't/can't see in concerts. The slow release of the keys at the end of the piece and slight hovering over the notes took my breath away.
What a masterpiece, it was the first time I heard Philip Glass and I love it
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Same here...
Still have to listen...
I know some good music from Philip Glass but this, needs some thinking. No, I don't like this.
Thank you. A wonderful suite played with great fondness.
So powerful. I'd love to be in the room with this being played from start to finish.
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You're not wrong. The jank makes these renditions feel vibrant and alive in a way that's rare nowadays. Thanks for your commitment to doing things the hard way :)
Western soft voodoo that brings up the deepest emotions. Amazing how acoustic strings can send people into such state. Merci Monsieur Glass !
This has always been one of my favourite works of Glass; like it even more than the Glassworks. Even better is the fact that this particular interpretation is superb; exquisite.
So great you make this available for music lovers! Thanks!
The most beautiful song in existence.
Not a 'song'
I hear this music ever since I've been in Kafka museum in Prague... Also right now when I'm reading "Process" and also thinking about "The Castle".
It's masterpiece🙏
Seven+1 weeks ago we discovered our female cat Macka sitting in front of a big TV screen full of Philip Glass music Metamorphosic. She was glued to the tv screen for more than 33 minutes...Me too...🎶
😂😂 That's an excellent review right there!
With today being Veterans Day I listened to Adagio for Strings, op11 by Samuel Barber. It was performed by a pianist who conducted it on September 15th 2001. I saw it live on TV from London in 2001. Its on you tube. I cried my eyes out. Then right after that video a pianist named Nobuuki Tsujii wrote and composed "Elegy for the victims of the Tsuami of March 11, 2011. It was so sad and he cried throughout the whole song as tears dripped down on his piano keys. And now I find Philip Glass. Piano solos have so much feeling and yes these are sad yet beautiful. 11/11/2017
Sam -- thank you for sharing -- The experience of The True Divine is beyond words to describe, nonetheless:
"Last night I dreamt I saw the Sun.
I knew it was the Sun
Because it was Warm, and gave Light,
And because it brought Tears to my eyes."
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