Philip Glass : The Complete Piano Études

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With this highly anticipated complete set of Philip Glass’s Études, Vanessa Wagner offers far more than a simple recording: a testament to the deep relationship she has cultivated for years with this now essential body of piano music at the crossroads of the 20th and 21st centuries, which she delivers in an interpretation that is embodied, demanding, and deeply inhabited. Winner of a Victoire de la musique in 1999, Vanessa Wagner shows equal inspiration in her interpretations of Mozart, Schubert, or Tchaikovsky as alongside Murcof or Rone. She also records modern composers such as Meredith Monk, Caroline Shaw, Arvo Pärt, or Pascal Dusapin. Through her innovative and bold approach, Vanessa Wagner has established herself as a major influence in the classical music landscape, crossing boundaries and forging inspiring paths. Wagner does not play Glass as a fixed figure of American minimalism: she reveals its shadows, its subtle modulations, its rhythmic flashes. Each Étude becomes a shifting inner landscape, between formal purity and meditative vertigo. Far from a mere exercise in style, this complete set traces a personal narrative, an emotional journey where tension, fragility, endurance, and surrender intertwine. In an era that is rediscovering long-form time and immersive listening, Vanessa Wagner stands out as an essential interpreter of this language - poetic, introspective, and deeply contemporary. The complete Études are presented for the first time on vinyl in their entirety in a Deluxe 4-vinyl box set and a Double CD.