To Philip Glass, piano music is something intimate and his love for Schubert is apparent in Mad Rush , which initially suggests Schubert's Du bist die Ruh and is less 'mad' than the keenly pulsating Metamorphosis collection. The 'madness' becomes heavily apparent in the classic scoring of the contrary motion arpeggios, which have previously been explored in Music in Contrary Motion , which was accompanied by similar works such as Music in Fifths , Music in Similar Motion , Music with Changing Parts and Two Pages . Glass' piano music was first introduced with an opening solo in Glassworks . The piano works on this CD are an excellent example of the minimal music style. Repeated musical elements, based on the tonal classical system.
People love or hate it.
There is no inbetween. The compositions show a great contrast even with minimal notes. The complete keyboard is used to work this out. Just close your eyes and imagine. The music is easy to understand, and because of the simple repetitive structure it requires a lot of initiative from the performer.