Philip Glass - Philip Glass: The Hours/Distant Figure

Russian pianist Anton Batagov presents Philip Glass's 'The Hours/Distant Figure'. His 2002 Academy Award nominated score to the Richard Eyre film 'The Hours', starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore. The score remains a high-water mark in Glass's commercial film output. The score to 'The Hours' composed for piano, string orchestra signified a new period in Glass's music which represented an overt turn towards Romanticism. The solo piano version was embraced by pianists everywhere as some of Glass's most approachable and intimate music.

1) The Poet Acts ()
2) Morning Passages ()
3) Something She Has to Do ()
4) I'm Going to Make a Cake ()
5) An Unwelcome Friend ()
6) Dead Things ()
7) Why Does Someone Have to Die? ()
8) Tearing Herself Away ()
9) Escape! ()
10) Choosing Life ()
11) The Hours ()
12) Distant Figure (Passacaglia for Piano) ()