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"…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." <ref> Daily Telegraph </ref> | "…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." <ref> Daily Telegraph </ref> | ||
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Revision as of 00:10, 28 December 2021
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
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
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." [1]
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
Percussion Concerto No. 2 (MacMillan)
Reference
- ↑ Daily Telegraph