Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

The Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (also known as the Piano Concerto No. 1) is a piano concerto by Philip Glass. The composer wrote the work in 2000. On commission by the Festival Klangspuren in Stuttgart, it was written for the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. It is one of eight concerti in Glass' series The Concerto Project, an amalgamation of works in four volumes.

Structure

The piece is scored for solo piano, accompanied by string orchestra. Surprisingly small scale for Glass, whose other symphonic work is usually orchestrated for a large ensemble, the work displays the traditional minimalist elements which characterize the composer's music. Glass' choice for string orchestra was probably influenced by Dmitri Shostakovich, whose Piano Concerto No. 1 is also written for strings. Several recordings of the concerto have been made. The concerto is in three movements, the middle being the longest.

Philip Glass

Compositions	Music in Twelve Parts Glassworks String Quartet No. 2 The Light Passages Itaipu Songs from Liquid Days Aguas da Amazonia

Operas	Einstein on the Beach Satyagraha The Photographer Akhnaten The Civil Wars The Juniper Tree The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1000 Airplanes on the Roof Hydrogen Jukebox The Voyage Monsters of Grace White Raven In the Penal Colony Galileo Galilei The Sound of a Voice Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox Kepler The Perfect American

Symphonies	Symphony No. 1 (Low) Symphony No. 2 Symphony No. 3 Symphony No. 4 (Heroes) Symphony No. 5 (Choral) Symphony No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) Symphony No. 7 (A Toltec Symphony) Symphony No. 8 Symphony No. 9 Symphony No. 10

Concertos	Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tirol) Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) Harpsichord Concerto Violin Concerto (withdrawn) Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2 (American Four Seasons) Cello Concerto No. 1 Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra

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Concertos by Philip Glass

Piano concertos	No. 1 (Tirol) No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark)

Violin concertos	Violin Concerto (withdrawn) No. 1 No. 2 (American Four Seasons)

Cello concertos	No. 1 Naqoyqatsi

Other concertos	Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra Harpsichord Concerto

List of compositions by Philip Glass

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