Album · 1989
Solo Piano
by Philip Glass
Solo Piano is a 1989 classical album by Philip Glass. It runs 7 tracks across 51 minutes.
Classical · Contemporary Classical
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- 7
- Tracks
- 51 min
- Runtime
- 122 bpm
- Tempo
- E minor
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7 tracks · 51 min
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Solo Piano (1989) is an album of piano music composed and performed by Philip Glass. It was produced by Kurt Munkacsi. Its first track, "Metamorphosis One", was featured in the Battlestar Galactica television episode "Valley of Darkness". Its second track, "Metamorphosis Two", formed the basis of one of the main musical themes in the film The Hours. It is also the song that the American rock band Pearl Jam uses as their introduction music to concerts. The title of five of the seven tracks, "Metamorphosis", refers to and was inspired by the 1915 short story The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. The title of the last composition is a reference to Allen Ginsberg's poem Wichita Vortex Sutra, and was composed, in collaboration with Ginsberg, for both a reading and recording of the poem.
In brief
- When was Solo Piano released?
- Solo Piano was released in 1989.
- How many tracks are on Solo Piano?
- Solo Piano has 7 tracks, with a runtime of 51 minutes.
- What genre is Solo Piano?
- Solo Piano is catalogued under Classical, Contemporary Classical.
- What BPM is Solo Piano?
- Solo Piano runs at a median tempo of 122 BPM across its tracks, most often in E minor, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Solo Piano?
- Listeners of Solo Piano also rate Una mattina by Ludovico Einaudi, Summa by Arvo Pärt, The Desert Music by Steve Reich.