Probably the BEST performance of this piece I've ever heard.

The visual satisfaction on his face... wow

I had goosebumps again. I saw many pianists playing Glass' Opening, and all they was mading circles with them body. It is incredible the "round" state of mind this piece causes. It seems all the universe is moving in circles, and we can "listen to" it. Only Debussy did something like that.

That smile... You feel before you think. Thank you for playing this. You're a master.

What a great performance! The slower tempo gave space for all the inner voice and rhythms to speak clearly. Beautiful colors all over the piece. Gorgeous ! Bravo!

This is a masterpiece rendition. I can watch this all day.

This is exactly the reason why I started to play piano, thank you Ignas Maknickas.

This is a very original interpretation I think the crescendo on the whole piece is very satisfying and the most important thing in this song is to feel!

That moment when they show his face.. Unbelievable. He was one with the God of music.

I keep coming back to this, having watched it a dozen times - never have I seen a music video where the pictures conveyed just as much emotion as the music. It is my favorite version of this piece on the entire tube, it really emphasizes the beauty in the piece. Masterful performance!

This has me in tears, so beautiful. Truly the most wonderful performance of Opening I’ve ever watched ✌🏼🎹

This piece was already brilliant, but this performance makes it a masterpiece. Like legit, the utter joy on the pianist's face? I can hear it! It's so good!

I'm learning this now, and this is the performance I keep coming back to. Truly spectacular.

OOhh this is a superb version, so much flow and motion.

This piece is so simple and relatively easy to play, but it comes across as so full of feeling-as if an entire symphony were playing.

Quite slower than the original, but i like your phrasing very much! It makes the piece sounds much more sensible, melancholic. Great work

So much sensitivity in your interprétation. You depict the harmonies and metrology of this piece so great. Wow and thank you.

I'm a newer fan of Ignas! Philip Glass is my favourite composer of our time and I'm happy to hear him played.

An absolute pleasure to listen to. Bravo.

It's really astonishing. This performance really is a revelation compared to every other I've heard. It's like you were the first to understand and be able to expose the emotion of this piece.

Absolutely fascinating playing and piece of music

2:49 The superimposition of the string resonances sounds like an accompanying instrument that sounds something like between strings and horns. Amazing.

Ich weine mir die Augen aus, aber ich fühle mich so unendlich befreit! DANKE DANKE DANKE

Proud to be Lithuanian with luminaries like you among us!

Almost every recording of this piece on youtube is just that: a recording. It's hard to find an actual "performance" of this - and I'm very happy that yours was the first in my search list. This is a WONDERFUL performance. I wish you nothing but the absolute best. Please stay healthy.

I work listening to Philip Glass' music all the time. Your performance is very beautiful. I keep coming back to it. Thank you for this.

A very sensitive and heartfelt interpretation. Thank you! 💕

Incredible unique interpretation. This piece has so much to say. You’ve uncovered yet another story. I have to say, it’s my favorite so far. Can’t stop listening to it. An eternal cosmic lullaby.

Incredible playing!

Masterpiece, no words...!

This version is untouchable!

La música del siglo XX, un refente insoslayable para entender la estética de nuestro singular siglo. Bellísima pieza.

beautiful interpretation, this is the one i like the most...

I've always love Glassworks and, particularly this piece. You truly breath life into it, transforming it into a beautiful flowing river of emotion. So thank you, and I hope you someday tour in the US... California, that is!

Really wonderful performance. Taking it slower allows the two rhythms to be heard against each other clearly. I also like the contrast in dynamics between repeats. And then bring out different voicings - either RH or LH. Best performance I've heard of this wonderful piece.

Something so much more mesmerizing watching someone in a classical environment play Glass. The music is mesmerizing already but watching it is fantastic. I hope to see a Glass performance sometime in my life.

Thank you, Ignas! Your playing is very delicate and passionate. I'm a big fan of this particular piece as it helped me through hard times with my work by keeping me relaxed and focused, like in a meditation. Now I've learned to play it on a piano and it has an ever greater effect when I can invoke the feelings myself. What a miracle! When I hear or play this piece by Philip Glass, I feel a deep presence of something greater than I cannot grasp otherwise.

WOW you’re a wonderful pianist! Beautiful rendition.

Beautiful. Thank you!

It's March 2020 and we're all stuck inside because of the coronavirus. Thank you for your beautiful piano playing, your musicianship really calmed me down. :)

a year later and I keep coming back to this recording, sooo amazing, best version of this piece out there. Ignas I hope and pray you are doing well and you are accomplishing your dreams, keep on doing what you love!

Beyond moving. Hearing and seeing you play this is entrancing and I can't think of anything else...for the night anyhow. Thank you

Opening, a love song

I'm an amateur pianist learning this piece. Thanks for the inspiration! Best rendition I've heard...

The first notes - and I already love it, am captured by it!

What a beautiful performance. Moving.

Me encanta, preciosa pieza y sublime interpretación. Llegó a lo más profundo de mí. Gracias, muchas.

... I cry every time... You fire directly até the heart... It's not possible to be static. 🙏

Wonderful sensitive performance. Thank you for this.

This is nothing but a musical embodiment of the slow, menacing embrace of Melancholy.

this music is breathless, just like the 1983 originaltitled movie "Breathless" by Richard Gere and Valérie Kaprisky with this stunning musical part of Philip Glass "Opening & Closing" (from "Glassworks", 1981) 🎼🎹☯

Best Version! Congratulations!!

Every Single Morning I listen to this in my headphones while I have the driving range to myself. Your style is unique, rapturous, and gorgeous. Frontal lobe tonic, and fingers on a Bösendorfer the way it was meant to be touched. I'll build a house with a room big enough for that Grand! I mean you probably don't need it right? ;) Also I"m gonna need your piano room moved to the E. COast and ur gonna have to teach me some scales.

Smooth, with a great tempo.!! He gets it!

One of my favourites of Phillip Glass... What a performance! Mesmerizing. Linkėjimai nuo lietuvaitės Evelinos 😊

Wow ❤🎹🙏 So incredibly moving and comforting.

beautiful playing!

I would write something, but I am speechless! Wow!!!!

Ich höre die Version von Herrn Maknikas fast regelmäßig, Könnte mich mit Tränen niedersetzen (J.S.Bach)

Tai pats tyriausias, gražiausias ir jautriausias atlikimas, palietei mano širdį! Ačiū už muziką.

Eu nunca tinha ouvido essa música,me deixou intrigado. Uma execução excepcional,ela te tira o fôlego impressionante!

My music teacher sent me this, it is such a beautiful masterpiece to hear keep up the good work!!!

Simplemente magnifico!

I enjoyed this so much.

The subtlety of the tension and resolution fall in on one another in a progression that is akin to a profound mediation. Mr. Maknikas performs this piece from that most ancient part of the cerebellum that one, with the view of his face, puts us in the meditative state with himself. Such a treat and a pleasure. He brings us a dopaminergic dance that not only listening but watching this young protege is priceless. Always a treat. I have a favorite musician that I know little if anything of. And of course, props to Mr. Glass for laying the groundwork and inspiiration.

Absolutely marvelous.

This passion.. Bewitched.

Wow. Just wow. Thank you.

Amazing performance amazing!!!

Very good performance--very subtle.

Hello, Ignas. I think you really captured what Philip intended to write - I mean, this is how it should have been written. Hats off to you. Šaunuolis, Ignai :)

Une multitude de mondes se decouvrent sous vos doigts. C'est une variation du même que vous révélez avec une grande subtilité. Vous nous emmenez si loin...et si haut....Merci !

Simply the best!

Awe-inspiring. You knocked this one out of the park.

Mind blown! 🤯

Always played and felt it should have been in this tempo - thanks for the inspiration.

Absolutely mesmerizing.

Thank you for your beautiful interpretation. Philip glass has a way of captivating the heart and mind and you just did all of that for us. ❤️

Beyond words.

I agree. Beautiful. And benefits from being slightly slower than the original

Wow I would love to hear you play more Glass. Your accuracy and dynamic control is really next level

Sehr, sehr schön.

Wonderful, amazing performance! Thanks for sharing this video, it makes me a better person every morning!

Amor por ese piano

I had heard this and loved it. I came here to hear it, but I also specifically wanted to SEE you play it. So delicate and beautiful!🌹✨

Thank you, beautiful performance.

Simplesmente magnífico!

Seemed to be performed from other spheres! So great! That interpretation made my Day! Thank you!

This is wonderful ! Thanks a lot

Esta composición es una de mis piezas favoritas de toda la vida, y sin duda ésta interpretación es la más sublime y hermosa versión que he escuchado, magistral! Makes me cry!

This is amazing. Well played Ignas.

Thank you!!full of feelings!!

Muchas gracias, magnifica, bella interpretación.

Elle est juste magnifiiiique 😍😍😍 Je peux l’écouter durant des heures sans m’en lasser ...💖💖💖💖💖

Aciu, labai geras atlikimas!

Just absolutely beautiful

beatiful interpretation as a fellow musician I love when it has feeling you know :) you look like young Phillip Glass byt the way! cheers

Não me canso de ouvi-la ❤❤❤

me encanta cómo la disfrutás!

This is really quite something. Thankyou