Philip Glass: Tirol Concerto for Piano & Orchestra, Mov. III

i love the intense swirling of emotion in his pieces, make me feel dizzy & blissful ^-^

anyone find many of his operas on here?
only seen Satyagraha, which blew me away!

i love it !

Good piece and well performed... unfortunately the microphone on the camera is very poorly constructed.

Hahahaha This shows the true pretention some youtube comments. You could have said the microphone was "bad" but isntead it was "poorly constructed". That made me laugh.

I am not saying that all music should sound like Ligeti's. But it's the attitude. The attitude of bringing something different to the world, of redefining what's beautiful. Glass did some OK things in the past, but A LOT of his music is very superficial and this piece belongs to that category. I am sure it's fun to play it, but I find this music to be completely empty. Sorry for using some harsh words. Glass has said a lot of stupid things about emotional music. I am just tired of his nonsense.

Fact is: This movement has nothing to do with Hollywood whatsoever. What are your criteria to judge this piece so negatively?

Pawel Markowicz: first of all, just want to point out that I am not criticizing your performance. I am sure you are very talented and can play all kinds of music and very well. Now, back to this "music": it is indeed very much related to Hollywood. It's full of simplistic and naive harmonic progressions, full of bad-taste-Gershwinian melodic cliches. Maybe it's a piece for written just for fun. But hey, i'm sure you know Ligeti's piano concerto. He brings rhythms and melodies to another level.

gotta love glass, its just impossible not too. and congratulations on orchestrating (in both sense of the words) i thought i was doing my bit of getting Phil out there with the speed-painting, but this is something else. i really respect your talent and dedication to make this possible

I like Glass's music in general but I don't like the pop sound of this piece.