Our topline release for 2015 is this awesome program which may be the first ‘music DVD’ devoted to contemporary percussion works. More than that, it has been produced with amazing graphics and visual enhancements as well as ‘straight’ video of the performances, thanks to the fine work of top Danish movie director Christian Holten Bonke.
Mathias Reumert is one of Europe’s foremost percussionists, and has been awarded the Danish Music Critics’ Prize for 2015.
The program includes the most iconic of modern percussion classics, ‘Psappha’ by Iannis Xenakis, together with his much more recent ‘Rebonds’. Works by Henze, Donatoni and Ferneyhough utilise wide ranges of tuned and unturned instruments, while the amazing pieces by Jodlowski and Globokar use different materials altogether. We predict Jodlowski’s ‘Time and Money’ will become a classic and hope to license this and other parts of the video to arts TV and online services.
Even for the non-percussion fan, the film is one to watch again and again.