Philip Glass

Symphony for Solo Piano Philip Glass

Orange Mountain Music is proud to present Symphony For Solo Piano, a virtuosic solo piano version of Philip Glass's Symphony No.8 arranged and performed by Pawel

Markowicz.

In late-2005 and early 2006, Glass's Symphony No.8 had its premiere performances in the United States and in Europe by its commissioner, the Bruckner Orchester Linz. The piece, perhaps Glass's most orchestrationally dynamic symphony, was released on recording in May 2006. At that time, Markowitz, a gifted teenage Austria pianist heard the new Glass symphony, bought the OMM recording which was released in May 2006, and acquired the full orchestral score to the new work. For the better part of the last 14 years has been refining, practicing, and perfecting his solo piano reduction of the extremely complicated work.