Orange Mountain Music is proud to present SYMPHONY FOR SOLO PIANO, a virtuosic solo piano version of Philip Glass’s Symphony No. 8 arranged and performed by Pawel Markowicz. In late-2005 and early 2006, Glass’s Symphony No.8 had its premiere performances in the United States and in Europe by its commissioner, the Bruckner Orchester Linz. The piece, perhaps Glass’s most orchestrationally dynamic symphony, was released on recording in May 2006. At that time, Markowitz, a gifted teenage Austria pianist heard the new Glass symphony, bought the OMM recording which was released in May 2006, and acquired the full orchestral score to the new work. For the better part of the last 14 years has been refining, practicing, and perfecting his solo piano reduction of the extremely complicated work. Glass’s Eight Symphony is a watershed moment of sorts. Beginning right around the Millennium, Glass’s creative life went into overdrive. The year 2005 saw not only the premiere of his Seventh Symphony but also his grand opera Waiting for the Barbarians and no fewer than five major film scores. In the midst of this was the composition of his Eighth Symphony which stands alone among his extant twelve symphonies for many reasons.