Philip Glass: Dodecagon, by Arturo Stàlteri, Philip Glass

Philip Glass: Dodecagon

by Arturo Stàlteri, Philip Glass

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PDD Simply brilliant and mesmerizing. I can only imagine how wonderful the original must be. Favorite track: Mad Rush.

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1.	Opening (Stàlteri Short Reversed Version) 01:21	buy track
2.	Metamorphosis Two 07:54	buy track
3.	Metamorphosis Three 03:41	buy track
4.	The North Star Session: Etoile Polaire 02:43	buy track
5.	The North Star Session: Victor's Lament 03:50	buy track
6.	The North Star Session: River Run 01:47	buy track
7.	The North Star Session: Ange des Orages 03:36	buy track
8.	The North Star Session: Ave 02:34	buy track
9.	Etude No.8 05:54	buy track
10.	Mad Rush 16:53	buy track
11.	Aria from Act III of Satyagraha 08:26	buy track
12.	Closing (Stàlteri Dramatic Version) 01:38	buy track

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Orange Mountain Music is proud to present the new album DODECAGON, a re-imagining of a classic album from a quarter-century ago by Italian pianist Arturo Stàlteri. In the late-1990s, Stàlteri was a pioneer in interpretations and arrangements of Philip Glass’s piano music. His album, Circles, became one of the early classics of the Glass piano repertoire. When approached by OMM about an anniversary re-release of Circles, Stàlteri responded with the idea to re-record, re-interpret, and re-imagine these Glass works which had existed in his music being for over 25 years.

The result is DODECAGON. The title is drawn from the name of a shape with twelve sides – corresponding to the twelve tracks on the album. Stàlteri opens with “Opening” from Glassworks. Rather than a straightforward reading, his 90 second version remixes the sound of the piano creating an impression of the piece, rather than just another literal interpretation.

The pianist then proceeds directly into two movements from Glass’s Metamorphosis piano-cycle. From that brooding beginning we take a right turn into Glass at his most upbeat and positive with the composer’s first film score NORTH STAR from 1977, deftly reworked in the recording studio in an arrangement for eight pianos by Stàlteri. The pianist/producer gives the impression that what is background is actually foreground, and what is distant is nearby.

In a leap forward in time, Stàlteri touches on Glass of the 1990s with his Etude No.8 from 1994 before heading back to 15 years before, when Glass’s most austere and powerful structures began to have a Romantic glow in works such as Mad Rush (1978) and the finale from his opera Satyagraha (1980) this time heard by three pianos.

The album comes to a satisfying conclusion with Stàlteri’s extremely dramatic rendition of Closing from Glassworks

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released May 26, 2023

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