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This compilation celebrates Philip Glass' 80th birthday through his unique contribution to the solo piano repertoire. It includes the sweepingly diverse and intricately melodic Etudes which are both technique-expanding and also intimately personal statements. His importance as a fi lm composer is shown in the subtle power of his transcriptions from stage and screen music, Metamorphosis I-V, and in his BAFTA-winning score for the The Hours. And Music in Fifths - which Steve Reich called "like a freight train" - dates from his experimental years and is full of a mesmerising variety of pulse patterns.