Philip Glass: Metamorphosis & The Hours

Lavinia Meijer

Philip Glass: Metamorphosis & The Hours
Format
Audio
Published
8 January 2013
ISBN
0723385339120

Philip Glass: Metamorphosis & The Hours

Lavinia Meijer

Since their first encounter in May 2011, Lavinia Meijer has worked with some frequency with Philip Glass, even though he has never written solo works specifically for the harp. However, many of his piano works and piano transcriptions, after minor adjustments, prove to be well suited to the modern pedal harp.

Initially, Lavinia Meijer added Glass’s five movement Metamorphosis to her repertoire, on the instigation of the undersigned, the Amsterdam gallery owner Robert Malasch and the American composer himself. After a first and successful performance (in the composer’s presence) in the Amsterdam ‘pop temple’ The Melkweg, a first official recording was made for Channel Classics in June 2011 in the Dutch town of Schiedam. Since this recording was exclusively intended for a brief national marketing campaign, it has now been followed up by this complete Glass CD for international distribution.

Lavinia Meijer is recognized worldwide as one of the most successful rising stars. Besides performing the standard harp repertoire Lavinia Meijer is very keen on playing modern music. She is also interested in experiments with electronic music, theatrical performances and jazz. Her CD’s got raving reviews and awards.

Review

I am of the opinion that Philip Glass is without a doubt one of the great American composers, and this new CD from harpist Lavinia Meijer is sosuperb it may well persuade the non- believers to agree with me. If ever music was meant to be played on one particular instrument then I would say that Glass’s piano compositions are perfectly suited for the solo harp. His works have always had a hypnotic beauty in their original form, but on the classical harp they have that and so much more.

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