Percussion Concerto No. 2 (MacMillan)

James MacMillan

General Info

Year of Published: 2014
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes
Commissioner: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the São Paulo State Symphony
ISBN: 978-1-7845-4289-4
ISMN: 979-0-0601-3333-6
Cost: €32.71

Instrumentation

Soloist

Mallets: Crotales & Aluphone & Vibraphone & Marimba
Drums: Tom-tom & Bass Drum with pedal & Steel Drum
Accessories: Cowbells & 4 Woodblocks & 2 Gliss Gongs & 8 assorted pieces of metal(including brake drum)

Orchestra

Woodwinds

2 Flutes
2 Oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais)
2 Clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet)
Bassoon
Contrabassoon

Brass

4 French Horns
3 Trumpets
3 Trombones
Tuba

Percussion

Player 1: Timpani
Player 2/3: Glockenspiel & 2 Marimbas & Tubular Bells & tuned gongs & siren & bass drum & sizzle cymbal & tam-tams & Tom-toms & Snare Drum & 2 Suspended Cymbals & 2 Triangles & thunder sheet

Keyboard

Piano

String

Violin
Viola
Cello
Double Bass
Harp

World Premiere Details

Date: 11th July 2014
Place: TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht
Soloist: Colin Currie
Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic (NRP)
Conductor: James Gaffigan

Press Quotes

"…the music takes off with quickly building kinetic energy. The solo part is chased by orchestral interjections until in the ruminating middle section of this single-movement, 25-minute work the music finds room to breathe. Here a lush string tune is decorated by tuned cowbells before the soloist moves to a steel drum to make chamber music with piano, harp, flutes, double basses and a solo viola’s jagged lines."

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