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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Tüür - Symphony No. 4 'Magma'
World Premiere Recording “Glennie is at her most charismatic in Magma, an intoxicating physical score; the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi not only supports her blow for blow but plays the entire programme with a palpable sense of passionate conviction. Virgin's recording is of demonstration standard, the climaxes in Magma frequently awe-inspiring.” BBC Music Magazine, August 2007 ***** “Though written for Evelyn Glennie, who takes the solo percussion part with superb aplomb, this really is a symphony rather than a flashy, beefed-up concerto. It stays just on that side of the divide everywhere except in the brief cadenza at approximately the half-way mark.
The other three works on this disc feel similarly substantial and born of inner necessity...Tüür is currently well represented on CD, but this new disc is probably the most rewarding devoted to his music, no doubt partly because performances and recordings are first-class. If the prospect of challenging, granite- hewn musical invention has any appeal, then this is a must.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010  BBC Music Magazine
Orchestral Choice - August 2007 |
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“The notion of writing a sequel to Wagner's ''Götterdämmerung,'' and casting it as a percussion concerto, may seem odd, but it is vintage Christopher Rouse.” New York Times Best CDs of 2004 | | | (also available to download from $11.00) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Dame Evelyn Glennie - Percussion MasterclassPercussion Masterclass at the Royal Northern College of Music
Evelyn Glennie is without question the best known solo percussion player in the world. She gives more than 100 performances a year worldwide, performing with the greatest conductors, orchestras, and artists. Her diversity of collaborations have included performances artists such as Bjork, Bobby McFerrin, Sting, Emmanuel Ax, Kings Singers and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. In this masterclass she works on two twentieth century percussion compositions: Minoru Miki's "Marimba Spiritual" and Anders Koppel's "Toccata for Marimba and Vibraphone". | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | 2007 WASBE Killarney, Ireland: International Youth Wind Orchestra
Evelyn Glennie (percussion) International Youth Wind Orchestra, Gerhard Markson, Glenn Price | |
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| |  | Ecstatic Drumbeat: Works for Percussion and Chinese Orchestra
Evelyn Glennie (percussion), Tzu-You Lin (suona) & Tsung-Hsin Hsieh (percussion) Taipei Chinese Orchestra, En Shao & Yiu-Kwong Chung Appearing with leading orchestras and conductors around the world, Evelyn Glennie has also collaborated with musicians as diverse as Emmanuel Ax, the King’s Singers and Bjork. On the present disc, she appears with the Taipei Chinese Orchestra to perform original compositions and arrangements for percussion and Chinese orchestra. The programme features works by composers from the Far East, as well as by German-based Nebojša Živković, whose duo Born to Beat Wild for bass drum and trumpet here is performed with a suona, ‘Chinese oboe’, replacing the trumpet. The final work, Emperor Qin Crushing the Battle Formations, is a reworking by the composer Yiu-Kwong Chung of an ancient score first performed in the year 627 at the court of the second Tang Emperor. Ecstatic Drumbeat is the last of four discs that present collaborations between the Taipei Chinese Orchestra and soloists from a Western tradition, with Evelyn Glennie following in the footsteps of flutist Sharon Bezaly (BISSACD1759), saxophonist Claude Delangle (BISCD1790) and trombone player Christian Lindberg (BISCD1888). “Here’s something different: a meeting of Britain’s most famous percussionist and the Taipei Chinese Orchestra. This resourceful Taiwanese ensemble regularly collaborates with Western virtuosi, and the results are unpredictable, uneven, but never dull...Fascinating sounds crossing hemispheres, epochs and cultures.” The Times, 30th June 2012 *** | | | (also available to download from $11.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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The works on this disc are all world premiere recordings. In Spirit Voices for percussion and orchestra, Stucky has instead explored mythical beings from around the world, including Coyote, the trickster god of the Navajo Indians, mountain goblins of Japanese folk culture, and the Scottish bean nighe, a banshee portending death. Written for the performers on this disc, the score consists of seven movements in which the percussionist sometimes plays a soloistic role, and in others is integrated into the orchestra. Pinturas de Tamayo is the result of American composer Steven Stucky’s encounter with the art of the Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo. Initially struck by the painting ‘The Great Galaxy’ – reproduced on the cover of this CD – he chose this and four other paintings as his points of departure for a five-movement suite. “The recorded sound serves Stucky's fastidious orchestral sense handsomely, and those looking for contemporary music that is approachable but never facile will find undoubted rewards here.” Gramophone Magazine, October 2010 | | | (also available to download from $11.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Thea Musgrave - Turbulent Landscapes
This CD was recorded live at the BBC Proms and is produced in association with BBC Radio 3. Turbulent Landscapes was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Each of the six movements is inspired by various paintings by Turner. When question about being a ‘woman’ composer, Thea’s reply is ‘Yes, I am a composer, and I am a woman, but rarely at the same time’. Two’s Company was written for Evelyn Glennie and Nicholas Daniel. Songs for a Winter’s Evening was commissioned to celebrate Robert Burns on the 200th anniversary of his death in 1995. ‘Full marks to NMC for retrieving these recordings from the archives’ Rich, powerful musical language and a strong sense of drama have made Thea Musgrave one of the most respected and exciting of living composers. Born in Edinburgh in 1928, she studied at the University of Edinburgh then in Paris, where she spent four years as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger, before establishing herself in London with her orchestral, choral, operatic and chamber works. In 1970 she was named guest professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, which anchored her increasing involvement with the musical life of the United States; in 1971 she married the American violist and opera conductor Peter Mark and she now lives in the US. “…a triptych of Thea Musgrave's works in wonderful performances from all concerned… Songs for a Winter's Evening is an endearing song cycle charting a woman's life and loves through text by Robert Burns. It draws on the tunes for Burns's verses, yet these are unmistakably, and beautifully contemporary reminiscences, sung exquisitely by Lisa Milne.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2009 **** “…Musgrave's… response to a group of Turner's painting in Turbulent Landscapes is a triumph: cogently structure yet uninhibitedly pictorial encapsulations of these canvases which manage to be economical, witty and distinctively expressive all at the same time. All three live performances come across well in recordings that bring out Musgrave's myriad instrumental felicities.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009 | | | (also available to download from $11.00) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Touch The Sound - Evelyn Glennie
Award-winning director and cinematographer,Thomas Riedelsheimer (director of the acclaimed Rivers and Tides), takes us on a journey through a universe of sound with percussionist Evelyn Glennie. While exploring the role of deafness in Glennie’s music-making, Touch the Sound challenges our understanding of the senses and celebrates Glennie’s uncanny gifts. Believed to be the first full-time solo percussionist in the West, Dame Evelyn Glennie has performed with nearly all of the world's major orchestras in front of several presidents and world leaders. In concert, she plays up to 60 instruments including the gamelan, xylophone, marimba and timpani. Outside percussion, she is also adept on the great highland bagpipes. On stage, the percussionist performs barefoot in order to feel vibrations from her instruments, and often stands at 90 degrees to the audience so they can see the drum skins vibrating. Her personal collection includes 1,800 instruments, several of which Glennie designed herself, and she keeps percussion kits in six countries to facilitate her hectic touring schedule. Outside the world of classical music, Glennie has achieved fame for her collaborations with artists including Sting, Ray Davies, Fred Frith and Bjork. She is the vice-president of Hearing Concern and Deafness Research UK, and president of The Beethoven Fund for Deaf Children, which provides musical therapy units to schools for the deaf and partially-hearing across the UK. Evelyn's activities also include lobbying the Government on political issues; her consortium with Sir James Galway, Julian Lloyd Webber and the late Michael Kamen successfully led to the government providing £332 million towards music education. “A feast for the senses.” New York Daily News “Beautifully shot and filled with gorgeous music.” Chicago Tribune “Rewarding, thought-provoking and subtly visceral.” Hollywood Reporter “Potent and Imaginative!” Los Angeles Times “Glennie… is a remarkable musician by any measure. Working with the legendary improviser Fred Frith, she proves exceptionally open to the experience of sound itself, not just its organisation into tunes, chords and rhythms. Few classical (or, for that matter, jazz or pop) musicians have the kind of imagination or awareness she and Frith display. Visually, the film is superb, beginning with a bravura coup de cinema: the camera pulls away from a close-up of a gong, Glennie steps in to play, and the camera continues to back rapidly through a huge deserted warehouse until, outside, it pans up to a thundery sky.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2009 ***** | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Gramophone Awards 2008
Gramophone Magazine
