Shard (2014)
for solo piano
Requested by Nicolas Horvath for his GlassWorlds project
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Published in: Collected Shorter Piano Pieces Vol 2 (2015) – Bardic Edition BDE 954
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: c. 2 minutes
Première
First performance: 9 January 2015; Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York; Nicolas Horvath piano
Programme note
To try to present the essence of Philip Glass’s monolithic work in just two minutes is a crazy undertaking. This tiny reflection on his music takes fleeting glimpses and inserts them between what would be the strong pulses or pillars in a typically Glassian texture. But the latter is never heard, only soft staccato chords - sometimes familiar, sometimes less so – notated as acciaccaturas, the music between the cracks as it were.
for solo piano
Requested by Nicolas Horvath for his GlassWorlds project
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Published in: Collected Shorter Piano Pieces Vol 2 (2015) – Bardic Edition BDE 954
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Duration: c. 2 minutes
Première
First performance: 9 January 2015; Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York; Nicolas Horvath piano
Programme note
To try to present the essence of Philip Glass’s monolithic work in just two minutes is a crazy undertaking. This tiny reflection on his music takes fleeting glimpses and inserts them between what would be the strong pulses or pillars in a typically Glassian texture. But the latter is never heard, only soft staccato chords - sometimes familiar, sometimes less so – notated as acciaccaturas, the music between the cracks as it were.
