The organizers of the Ruhr Piano Festival claim that it is the largest event of its kind in the world, and it might very well be; held in the summer, the Ruhr awards a prize and provides family concerts, master classes, honors great piano schools throughout the world, and hosts performances of whole cycles of piano literature. At the 2002 festival, American contemporary composers were honored and piano music of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Earle Brown, John Cage, and Terry Riley was performed. This Orange Mountain Music ...
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The organizers of the Ruhr Piano Festival claim that it is the largest event of its kind in the world, and it might very well be; held in the summer, the Ruhr awards a prize and provides family concerts, master classes, honors great piano schools throughout the world, and hosts performances of whole cycles of piano literature. At the 2002 festival, American contemporary composers were honored and piano music of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Earle Brown, John Cage, and Terry Riley was performed. This Orange Mountain Music release represents a Ruhr Piano Festival concert from a return visit by Glass on July 7, 2008, and this time he came equipped with a wholly new work, the Four Movements for Two Pianos, written for the piano team of Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies. Davies, of course, is already well regarded as an effective conductor of Glass' music, but his duo with Namekawa is an independent enterprise formed in Germany in 2003. It was Namekawa who coordinated commissioning Glass for this work on...
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