Anton Batagov - Glass: Hours Distant Figure - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Philip Glass' Academy Award-nominated music for the 2002 Stephen Daldry film, The Hours, is one of his finest scores, generating a mood of gentle melancholy and emotional depth. Anton Batagov has long been a faithful champion of Glass' piano music and here he offers, on the composer's own tag, the piano version of the score. It's beautifully controlled and, at times, overwhelming in it's ability to touch the heart. InchDistant Figure (Passcaglia for Solo Piano)Inch is a piece for piano that started life as a miniature and has been developed. Like The Hours, it's delicate, evocative, and exquisitely controlled. Album Tracks 1. The Poet Acts 3 53 2. Morning Passages 5 28 3. Something She Has to Do 3 35 4. I'm Going to Make a Cake 3 39 5. An Unwelcome Friend 4 34 6. Dead Things 4 34 7. Why Does Someone Have to Die? 4 10 8. Tearing Herself Away 5 13 9. Escape! 3 50 10. Choosing Life 4 03 11. The Hours 8 12 12. Distant Figure (Passcaglia for Solo Piano) 13 50