Discography: 1980s & 1990s

The world’s most innovative instrumentalist adds a new dimension to her vast collection of recorded repertoire. Glennie is considered the world’s greatest percussionist. In this recording she performs a wide array of xylophone repertoire from the era when this instrument was king, accompanied by the world’s greatest brass band.

Hamilton-Green/Graham: Triplets
Various: Xylophone Classics
Barnes/Graham: Yorkshire Ballad
Starita/Graham: Rudy’s Rambles
Green/Graham: The Whirlwind
Traditional/Glennie: Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)
Brenska/Graham: Taps in Tempo
Geldard/Graham: Tween Heather and Sea
Finkel/Graham: The Gypsy Vituoso
Various: The Golden Age of the Xylophone
Satie/Graham: Gymnopédie No 1
Brooke/Graham: Gee Whizz!
Hohne/Graham: Slavische Fantasie
Graham: Cartoon Music
Hackford/Graham: Hittin’ Em Up

Xylophone, Marimba & Vibraphone: Evelyn Glennie
Conductor: James Watson
Black Dyke Band

This disc is the result of a fascinating collaboration between two of the UK’s most celebrated classical phenomena: Evelyn Glennie and the King’s Singers. Combining works for voice along, percussion alone and the union of the two, we’re catapulted into a world of colour and melodic intricacy rarely experienced and rarely found. This is your chance to hear what happens when the expressiveness of the human voice meets the (very different) expressiveness of percussion.

Martland: Street Songs
Klatzow: Return of the Moon
Dijk: Horizons
Horne: Reaching Out
Glasser: Lalela Zulu
Glasser: Lalela Zulu – Mambabo!
Glasser: Lalela Zulu – Lala MNtwana
Glasser: Lalela Zulu – Uhambo Ngesitimela
Glasser: Lalela Zulu – E-goli
Glasser: Lalela Zulu –  Umdanso Wasegoli
Glennie: Giles

Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Voices: King’s Singers

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A double album containing 30 tracks and over two hours of music, surveying the breadth of Evelyn’s recording career. The album also contains Oxygen, a previously unreleased collaboration with Björk.

Glennie: Entrances
Cauberghs: Halasana
Glennie: Sorbet No 1 – Latin American Interlude
Smadbeck: Rhythm Song
Björk/Glennie: My Spine
Rogers: Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Glennie: Sorbet No 2 – Wood & Metal Chimes
Glennie: A Little Prayer
Rosauro: Eldorado (Cenas Amerinadas No 2)
Sorbet No 7 – Hi-Hat Playout
Chopin/Palmer/Glennie: Black Key Study
Akira Yuyama: Divertimento for Marimba & Alto Saxophone
Berenska: Taps in Tempo
Mars Bonfire/Lang: Born to be Wild
Keiko Abe/Glennie: Michi
Glennie: Sorbet No 4 – Woodblocks & Falling Instruments
Glennie: Light in Darkness
Lang: Anvil Chorus
Takayoshi Yoshioka: Rhapsody
Saint-Saëns/Langford: The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals)
Glennie: Sorbet No 3 – UDU Trail
Rodney Bennett: Concerto for Solo Percussion and Chamber Orchestra (Movement III)
Rimsky-Korsakov/Palmer: The Flight of the Bumble Bee
Sorbet No 6 – Simtak Debut
Minoru Miki – Marimba Spritual
Hubey/Glennie: Hejre Kati
Joplin/Russell: Maple Leaf Rag
Psathas: Matre’s Dance
Monti/Palmer/Glennie: Czardas
Björk/Glennie: Oxygen

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Piano: Philip Smith
Vocals: Björk
Saxophone: John Harle
Additional Percussion: Stephen Henderson, Gary Kettel & Greg Knowles
Flute: Edward Beckett
Clarinet: Roy Jowitt
Double Bass: Chris Lawrence
Drum Kit: Ralph Slamins
Conductors: Paul Daniel, Ray Russell & Barry Wordsworth
National Philharmonic Orchestra
Scottish Chamber Orchestra

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Schwantner’s percussion concerto has an anniversary and a memorial context. The New York Philharmonic commissioned the work in celebration of its 150th anniversary. At the time he was profoundly saddened by the death of fellow composer Stephen Albert, who had a strong connection with the National Symphony Orchestra, who appears on this recording. The soloist is required to command 20 different instruments across three movements. Velocities, meanwhile, which Schwantner describes as a moto perpetuo for solo marimba, focusses the performer’s efforts on one instrument. The result is no less kaleidoscopic!

Schwantner: Velocities
Schwantner: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra
Schwantner: New Morning for the World: “Daybreak of Freedom”

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
National Symphony Orchestra

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Disc 1

1. Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45 – Sicilienne and Rigaudon (after Francouer)
2. Nocturne in G, Op. 37, No. 2
3. Suite No. 1 in D, Op. 43 : March miniature
4. Violin Concerto, Op. 35, in D : Canzonetta (abridged)
5. Litanei, D. 343
6. Götterdämmerung : Finale
7. Suite for Two Pianos, Op. 15 : Valse
8. Mazurka in D, Op. 33, No. 2
9. Violin Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006 : Preludio
10. Etude in A Minor, Op. 25, No. 11, “Winter Wind”
11. Jalousie – Tango Tzigane
12. Violincello Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 30 : Lento – Andante tranquillo (abridged)
13. Schön Rosmarin
14. Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48 : Waltz
15. Beatrice and Benedict : Overture
16. Messiah : Hallelujah Chorus
17. Carnival Of Animals : The Swan
18. Don Pasquale : Overture
19. Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 7, No. 2
20. Canción de cuna

Disc 2

1. Carmen Fantasy
2. Fantasia, BWV 906, in C Minor
3. Coppélia (Remastered) : Prélude et Mazurka
4. Colas Breugnon Op. 24 : Overture
5. Porgy and Bess : Summertime
6. Porgy and Bess : A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
7. 5 Bagatelles : No. 1, Allegro
8. I Vespri Siciliani : Act III: Scene 2 – Ballet “The Four Seasons”: Winter
9. L’isle joyeuse
10. La Flûte de Pan, Op. 15 : Pan and the Birds
11. Rosamunde, Op. 26, D. 797 (Highlights) : Ballet Music No. 2
12. 3 Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 : 3. Rasch und mit Feuer
13. Light in Darkness
14. Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, No. 1
15. Études d’exécution transcendante, S. 139 : 5. Feux follets in B-Flat Major
16. A Hymn to New England
17. Fanfare for the Common Man

Performers

Albert Hirsh (piano)
Alfred Cortot (piano)
Arthur Rubinstein (piano)
Brooks Smith (piano)
Carl Lamson (piano)
Emanuel Feuermann (cello)
Evelyn Glennie (marimba)
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
Fritz Kreisler (violin)
Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)

Composers

Aaron Copland
Anton Arensky
Camille Saint-Saëns
Claude Debussy
Dmitry Kabalevsky
Evelyn Glennie
Franz Liszt
Franz Schubert
Frédéric Chopin
Fritz Kreisler
Gaetano Donizetti
George Frederick Handel
George Gershwin
Giuseppe Verdi
Hector Berlioz

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A benefit for the Rainforest Foundation, founded by Sting and his wife, the disc has as its centerpiece a 25-minute rendition of Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Le Carnaval des Animaux”, played by pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque, and featuring Evelyn Glennie on percussion; the 16 other tracks are intended as a complement to this work, and the compilers asked the participants to choose a song from their childhood or that had a message for children. The result is a set of mostly traditional lullabies and folk songs. The major exceptions are Madonna and Paul Simon, who wrote new songs. New or old, however, the most of the material is calm and reflective.

Featuring specially recorded tracks from leading Pop and World music artists:
SHAWN COLVIN
ELTON JOHN
ANNIE LENNOX
MADONNA
BETTE MIDLER
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI
PAUL SIMON
STING & JIMMY NAIL
JAMES TAYLOR
TINA TURNER
RUBÉN BLADES
THE CHIEFTAINS
JOHNNY CLEGG
SHARON KATZ & THE PEACE TRAIN
GEOFFREY ORYEMA
ZUCCHERO
and a brand new recording of Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals”, including performances by top contemporary classical artists.

Track Listing

1. Waters of Tyne – Sting ; Jimmy Nail
2. An Gaoth Aneas (The Winds from the South) – The Chieftains
3. Dream Angus – Annie Lennox
4. Va Pensiero (Fly Thoughts) – Zucchero
5. Sweet and Low – Bette Midler
6. Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle (You Came Down from the stars) – Luciano Pavarotti
7. Abide with Me – Elton John
8. All Through the Night – Shawn Colvin
9. Lapwony – Geoffrey Oryema
10. Freedom – Madonna
11. No Voy a Dejarte Arder (I Will Not Let You Burn) – Ruben Blades
12. Ufomeni Uyangithanda (The Foreman Likes Me) – Johnny Clegg
13. Ten Years – Paul Simon
14. Nkosi Sikelel’ I Afrika (Lord Bless Africa) – Sharon Katz ; the Peace Train
15. I Bought Me a Cat – James Taylor
16. The Carnival of the Animals: No.1 Introduction and the Royal March of the Lion – Katia ; Marielle Labeque/Viktoria Nullova/Alexej Nagovitsyn/Misha Maisky
17. The Carnival of the Animals: No.2 Hens and Roosters – Katia ; Marielle Labeque/Richard Stoltzman/Viktoria Mullova/Alexej Nagovitsyn/Yuri Bashmet
18. The Carnival of the Animals: No.3 Wild Asses – Katia ; Marielle Labeque
19. The Carnival of the Animals: No.4 Tortoises – Katia Labeque/Viktoria Mullova/Alexej Nagovitsyn/Yuri Bashmet/Misha Maisky/Gary Karr
20. The Carnival of the Animals: No.5 the Elephant – Katia ; Marielle Labeque
21. The Carnival of the Animals: No.6 Kangaroos – Katia ; Marielle Labeque
22. The Carnival of the Animals: No.7 Aquarium – Katia ; Marielle Labeque/Benoît Fromanger/Evelyn Glennie/Viktoria Mullova/Alexej Nagovitsyn
23. The Carnival of the Animals: No.8 Personages with Long Ears – Viktoria Mullova/Yuri Bashmet
24. The Carnival of the Animals: No.9 the Cuckoo in the Woods – Katia ; Marielle Labeque/Richard Stoltzman
25. The Carnival of the Animals: No.10 Aviary – Katia ; Marielle Labeque/Benoît Fromanger/Viktoria Mullova/Alexej Nagovitsyn/Yuri Bashmet
26. The Carnival of the Animals: No.11 Pianists – Lily Maisky/Misha Mullova
27. The Carnival of the Animals: No.12 Fossils – Katia ; Marielle Labeque/Richard Stoltzman/Evelyn Glennie/Viktoria Mullova/Alexej Nagovitsyn
28. The Carnival of the Animals: No.13 the Swan – Katia ; Marielle Labeque/Misha Maisky
29. The Carnival of the Animals: No.14 Finale – Katia ; Marielle Labeque/Benoît Fromanger/Richard Stoltzman/Evelyn Glennie/Viktoria Mullova
30. Row Row Row Your Boat – Tina Turner

Length: 01:17:25

Artists (in order of appearance on back cover)

Sting
Jimmy Nail
The Chieftans
Annie Lennox
Zucchero
Luciano Pavarotti
Elton John
Shawn Colvin
Geoffrey Oryema
Madonna
Ruben Blades
Johnny Clegg
Paul Simon
Sharon Katz & The Peace Train
James Taylor

Katie & Marielle Labèque – pianos
Benoît Fromanger – flute
Richard Stolzman – clarinet
Evelyn Glennie – percussion
Viktoria Mullova – 1st violin
Alexej Nagovitsyn – 2nd violin
Yri Bashmet – viola
Misha Masiky – cello
Gary Karr – bass
Lily Maisky and Misha Mullov – pianos in ‘Pianists’

Tina Turner

Telegram is the first full-length and second overall remix album by Icelandic musician Björk, released on 25 November 1996. The album is a collection of remixes of several tracks from her album Post, which had all previously appeared as B-sides of the UK versions of the singles off Post, except the “Enjoy” remix which was previously unreleased. The cover was shot by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. All of the songs on Post were remixed, excluding “The Modern Things” and “It’s Oh So Quiet”. The collection also included one new song entitled “My Spine” (featuring Dame Evelyn Glennie) which was originally slated to appear on Post but was pushed out by “Enjoy”, becoming the B-side to the UK “It’s Oh So Quiet” single instead.

1. Possibly Maybe (Lucy Mix) 3:02
   Producer [Additional Production], Remix – Mark Bell
   Producer [Originally Produced By] – Björk, Nellee Hooper
   Remix – LFO
   Written-By – Björk, M. De Vries*, N. Hooper*
2. Hyperballad (Brodsky Quartet Version) 4:20
   Arranged By, Mixed By – Paul Cassidy
   Engineer – Pascal Giovetto*
   Producer [Additional Production], Performer – Brodsky Quartet
   Producer [Originally Produced By] – Björk, Nellee Hooper
   Written-By – Björk
3. Enjoy (Further Over The Edge Mix) 4:19
   Producer [Additional Production], Remix – Beaumont Hannant, Richard Brown
   Producer [Originally Produced By] – Björk, Tricky
   Remix – Outcast
   Written-By – Björk, Tricky
4. My Spine 2:33
   Percussion [Exhaust Pipes] – Evelyn Glennie
   Producer – Björk, Evelyn Glennie
   Recorded By, Mixed By – Greg Malcangi
   Written-By – Björk, E. Glennie*
5. I Miss You (Dobie Rub Part One Sunshine Mix) 5:33
   Producer [Additional Production], Remix – Dobie
   Producer [Originally Produced By] – Björk, Howie B.
   Rap – Rodney P
   Written-By – Björk, H. Bernstein
6. Isobel (Deodato Mix) 6:09
   Acoustic Guitar – Nestor Garcia
   Bass Guitar – Nico Gomez (2)
   Cello [Principal] – Robin Firman
   Congas – Peter Locket*
   Contractor [Orchestral] – Isobel Griffiths
   Drums – David Giovannini*
   Engineer – Steve Price (6)
   Guitar – Rob Montoro
   Keyboards – John Crawford (10)
   Leader [Orchestral] – Godfrey Salmon
   Mixed By – Björk, Steve Price (6)
   Percussion – Luis Jardim
   Producer [Originally Produced By] – Björk, Nellee Hooper
   Producer [Re-Produced By], Arranged By, Conductor – Eumir Deodato
   Remix – Deodato*
   Viola [Principal] – Luciano Iorio
   Written-By – Björk, M. De. Vries*, N. Hooper*, Sjón
7. You’ve Been Flirting Again (Flirt Is A Promise Mix) 3:20
   Arranged By [String Arrangement], Conductor – Eumir Deodato
   Cello [Principal] – Tony Pleeth*
   Contractor [Orchestral] – Isobel Griffiths
   Effects [Electronic] – Markus Dravs
   Engineer – Markus Dravs
   Leader [Orchestral] – Gavin Wright*
   Recorded By [Strings, Assisted By] – Adrian Scarff, Kirsten Cowie
   Recorded By [Strings] – Steve Price (6)
   Viola [Principal] – Rob Smissen*
   Written-By, Producer, Mixed By – Björk
8. Cover Me (Dillinja Mix) 6:21
   Producer [Additional Production], Remix – Dillinja
   Written-By, Producer [Originally Produced By] – Björk
9. Army Of Me (Masseymix) 5:15
   Engineer – Phil “Gripper” Jones*, Tim Dickenson*
   Guitar [Voodoo Vibe Guitar] – Graham Massey
   Producer [Originally Produced By] – Björk, Graham Massey, Nellee Hooper
   Remix – Big Muff Bass, Graham Massey
   Written-By – Björk, G. Massey*
10. Headphones (Ø Remix) 6:21
    Remix – Mika Vainio, Ø
    Written-By, Producer [Originally Produced By] – Björk, Tricky

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A collection of pieces for solo percussion and percussion with piano sit alongside improvisation on this best-selling CD. Covering a cross-section of repertoire and showcasing many different ways of approaching percussion, this recording displays Evelyn Glennie’s talents at their very best and their most focussed. A riveting, exhilarating joy to hear and a world away from your average CD.

Glennie: Entrances
Cauberghs: Halasana
Glennie: Sorbet No 1 – Latin American Interlude
Sierra: Bongo-O
Glennie: Sorbet No 2 – Chinese Cymbals
Masson: Prim
Glennie: Sorbet No 3 – UDU Trail
Lang: Anvil Chorus
Glennie: Sorbet No 4 – Woodblocks and Falling Instruments
Rzewski: To the Earth
Glennie: Sorbet No 5 – Metal Wind Chimes
Živković: Pezzo da Concerto No 1, Op 15
Glennie: Sorbet No 6 – Simtak Debut
Psathas: Matre’s Dance
Glennie: Exits
Glennie: Hi-Hat Playout

Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Piano: Philip Smith

1. It’s Oh So Quiet
   Conductor, Arranged By [Orchestral] – John Altman
   Contractor [Orchestral] – Isobel Griffiths
   Engineer – Steve Price
   Orchestra [Players] – Alan Barnes, Bill Skeat, Bob Sydor, Colin Green, Connie Hughes, John Barclay, Malcolm Griffiths, Neil Sidwell, Paul Morgan, Peter Beachill, Phil Todd, Ralph Salmins, Ray Swinfield, Simon Chamberlain, Simon Gardner, Steve Saunders, Steve Waterman, Stuart Brooks
   Producer – Björk, Nellee Hooper
   Technician [Assistant] – Niall Acott
   Written-By – Bert Reisfeld, Hans Lang
2. Hyperballad (Brodsky Quartet Version)
   Engineer – Pascale Giovetto
   Mixed By, Arranged By – Paul Cassidy
   Producer [Additional], Performer – Brodsky Quartet
   Producer [Original] – Björk, Nellee Hooper
   Written-By – Björk
3. Hyperballad (Girls Blouse Mix)
   Producer [Original] – Björk, Nellee Hooper
   Remix, Producer [Additional] – Beaumont Hannant, Richard Brown
   Written-By – Björk
4. My Spine
   Engineer, Mixed By – Greg Malcangi
   Percussion [Exhaust Pipes] – Evelyn Glennie
   Written-By, Producer – Björk, Evelyn Glennie

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In a very short space of time, Evelyn Glennie has established herself as a consummate musician. She is believed to be the first full-time solo percussionist in the world. Her outstanding international career has brought into the musically rarified atmosphere of the classical concert hall an audience whose tastes range from the esoteric avant-garde to the immediately accessible.

Wind in the Bamboo Grove stands as a tribute to that success, bringing some of the best music from the Far East to the ears of Western audiences. Joined by a host of other fine musicians, Evelyn takes us through the soundworld of her marimba teacher, Keiko Abe, and the captivating vistas of other composers.

Keiko Abe: Michi
Akira Yuyama: Divertimento
Keiko Abe: Wind in the Bamboo Grove
Takayoshi Yoshioka: Rhapsody
Keiko Abe: Variations on Japanese Children’s Songs
Minoru Miki: Marimba Spiritual

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Saxophone: John Harle
Flute: Edward Beckett
Clarinet: Roy Jowitt
Double Bass: Chris Lawrence
Drum Kit: Ralph Slamins
Additional Percussion: Stephen Henderson, Gary Kettel & Greg Knowles

Between Worlds was the first compilation of Mícheál’s recordings for Venture Recordings (part of Virgin Records) between 1987 & 1995 including an edit of the title track of the TV series River of Sound & Lumen – a hit single in Ireland – as used in the centre section of that year’s Eurovision Song Contest, both of which featured percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie.

1. Oiche Nollac/Christmas Eve – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin / Traditional
2. An Tseanghe Liath/The Old Grey Goose – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin / Traditional
3. An Cailin Deas Chruite Na Mbo/The Pretty Milkmaid – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin / Traditional
4. Casadh Na Graige/The Turning Of The Road – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin / Traditional
5. An Mhaighdean Cheansa/The Gentle Maiden – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin / Traditional
6. Fiach And Mhada Rua/The Fox Chase/The Foxhunters Set Off/The Chase/The Kill/Lement For THe Fox/The Foxhunters Jig/The Return Home – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin / Traditional
7. Brian Boru – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin / Traditional
8. Idir Eatarthu/Between Worlds – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
9. Woodbrook – Traditional
10. Ah, Sweet Dancer – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
11. Eleanor Plunkett – Turlough O’Carolan / Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
12. Heartwork – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
13. Crispy (Must Be More) – Mel Mercier / Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
14. A River Of Sound – Dónal Lunny / Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
15. Lumen – Richard Barbieri / Steve Jansen

Tracks 1 to 3
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Piano
Colm Murphy – Bodhrán
Mel Mercier – Bones

Tracks 4 to 6
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Piano

Track 7
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Piano
Colm Murphy – Bodhrán
Mel Mercier – Bones

Track 8
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Piano
Colm Murphy – Bodhrán
Mel Mercier – Bones
The Irish Chamber Orchestra
Thérèse Timoney – Leader

Track 9
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Piano
The Irish Chamber Orchestra
Fionnuala Hunt – Leader

Track 10
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Piano
The Irish Chamber Orchestra
Thérèse Timoney – Leader

Track 11
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Piano
The Irish Chamber Orchestra
Fionnuala Hunt – Leader

Track 12
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Piano
Colm Murphy – Bodhrán
Mel Mercier – Bones
The Irish Chamber Orchestra
Thérèse Timoney – Leader

Track 13
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Piano
Mel Mercier – Bodhrán, Tabla
The Irish Chamber Orchestra
Fionnuala Hunt – Leader

Track 14
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Piano, Harpsichord
Donnal Lunny – Bouzouki, Bodhrán
Mel Mercier, Frank Torpey – Bodhrán
Evelyn Glennie – Percussion
Kenneth Edge – Saxophone
Brendan Power – Harmonica
T. Jegede, M. Jobarteh – Koras
Laoise Kelly – Irish Harp
Nollaig Casey – Fiddle
K. Rice, A. Veckes, J. O Kane, J. Kelly, M. Robinson – Strings

Track 15
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin – Piano, Harpsichord
Kenneth Edge – Saxophone
Andy Baker – String Bass
Mel Mercier – Bodhrán
John Bergamo – Frame Drum
Evelyn Glennie – Percussion
Brendan Ring – Pipes
Niall Keegan – Flute
Gary Hastings – Flute
Eileen Ivers – Fiddle
Laoise Kelly – Harp
The RTE Concert Orchestra
Michael D’Arcy – Leader
Prionnsias Ó Duinn – Conductor
Monks of Glenstall Abbey
Senior Boys Choir, Glenstall Abbey
Paul Nash – Choir Director
Cyprian Love – Organist
Noírín Ní Riain, Brian Kennedy, Máire Ní Bhraonáin, Brídín, Olive and Deidre Ní Bhraonáin, Lillis Ó Laoire, Ataine Ó Farracháin, Pádraig Ó Caerbhajll, Peadar Ó Ceannabháin – Voices

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In 1994 Britain celebrated the hundredth season of the best-loved of all its musical institutions, ‘The Proms’. The hundredth season’s concluding the concert – ‘The Last Night of the Proms’ – was conceived as a tribute to Proms founder Sir Henry Wood. The programme included Wood’s own arrangement of Bach’s famed Toccata and fugue in D Minor as well as perennial Proms favourite, his Fantasia on British Sea Songs. Wood was a great champion of new music and novelties, which led to the inclusion of Miki’s Marimba Spiritual, performed by Evelyn Glennie who gave the first ever performance of a percussion concerto at The Proms.

Bach/Wood: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast
Minoru Miki: Marimba Spiritual
Massenet: Méditation from Thaïs
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1
Wood: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Arne/Sargent: Rule Britannia!
Parry/Elgar: Jerusalem

Marimba: Evelyn Glennie
Baritone: Bryn Terfel
Conductor: Andrew Davis
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra

James Macmillan’s first concerto for percussion and orchestra, Veni, Veni, Emmanuel, was written especially for Evelyn, who gave the première in 1992 and has has performed the work many times since. One of the most popular concertos of modern times, Macmillan’s work is cast in a single movement and dedicated, touchingly, to his parents. Macmillan has based the music on the Advent plainsong with which the piece shares a name. Indeed, composition begun on the first Sunday of Advent in 1991 and concluded on Easter Sunday 1992. At the very end of the piece the music takes a corresponding liturgical detour, deriving its ideas from the Gloria of the Easter Vigil. On one level the concerto is purely abstract. On another level it explores the theology behind the Advent message.

Macmillan: Veni, Veni, Emmanuel
Macmillan: After the Tryst
Macmillan: …As Others See Us…
Macmillan: Three Dawn Rituals
Macmillan: Untold

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Violin: Ruth Crouch
Piano: James Macmillan
Conductors: Jukka-Pekka Saraste & James Macmillan
Scottish Chamber Orchestra

For centuries, the touring virtuoso displaying outstanding skill on a particular instrument has been a central feature of concert hall entertainment. Newcomers offer not only fine music, but also the attraction of hearing comparatively unusual instruments brought to the fore. Percussion virtuosi are among the latest to join the ranks of concertizing soloists and, among them, Evelyn Glennie blazes an unforgtable trail.

Rebounds presents a selection of fine percussion concertos from the 1930s right up to the 1990s. Infectious rhythms from jazz and traditional Brazilian music permeate this unforgettable album.

Milhaud: Concerto for Percussion and Small Orchestra
Rodney-Bennett: Concerto for Solo Percussion and Chamber Orchestra
Ney Roasauro: Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra
Akira Miyoshi: Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Conductor: Paul Daniel
Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Dance is emotion expressed in movement. This album presents a mosaic of music – sounds as emotions – that has been created, or chosen by dancers, for Dancin’.

1. Slaughter on 10th Avenue
2. Clog Dance
3. Polkas by the Beautiful Blue Danube
4. The Swan
5. Ginger and Fred
6. Can-Can
7. Bolero
8. Hoe-Down from Rodeo
9. Invitation to the Dance
10. Hejre Kati
11. Valse Brilliante
12. Taps in Tempo

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
National Philharmonic Orchestra

All tracks orchestrated by Gordon Langford

*Arranged by Gordon Langford

Evelyn’s second solo album features a music by composers from the East and West, demonstrating Evelyn’s early commitment to music from around the world. This is also the first album to feature Philip Smith, who would come to be a long-term collaborator on many projects.

Ney Rosauro: Eldorado (from Cenas Amerindias)
Keiko Abe: Dream of the Cherry Blossoms
McLeod: The Song of Dionysius
Edwards: Marimba Dances
Minoru Miki: Marimba Spiritual
Glennie: Light in Darkness
Toshimitsu Tanaka: Two Movements for Marimba

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Additional Percussion: Steve Henderson, Gregory Knowles & Gary Kettel
Piano: Philip Smith

Evelyn’s first solo album, Rhythm Song, presents something of a cross-section of the wide variety of musical styles she embraces on tuned percussion instruments. With lively, entertaining works and deeply serious ones side-by-side, this disc takes us on an journey through the expressive world of percussion playing and top-level music-making. The whole album becomes an extended rhythm song, a broad canvas of emotions in sound – and what better description could there be of true music?

Musser/Palmer: Etude in C, Op. 6, No 10
Inns/Russell: Robbin’ Harry
Smadbeck: Rhythm Song
Fauré/Palmer: Berceuse
Rimsky-Kosakov/Palmer: The Flight of the Bumble Bee
Monti/Palmer/Glennie: Czardas
Stout: Mexican Dances for Marimba (Nos 1 & 2)
Joplin/Russell: Maple Leaf Rag
Glennie: A Little Prayer
Chopin/Palmer/Glennie: Black Key Study
Keiko Abe/Glennie: Michi
Saint-Saëns/Glennie: Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Conductors: Barry Wordsworth & Ray Russell
National Philharmonic Orchestra

This award-winning disc of Bartók’s celebrated work and Brahms’s pianistic classic was recorded at the beginning of Evelyn’s career. See the masters at work: two titans of the piano world and the percussion wunderkind in all her youthful exuberance.

Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Brahms: Haydn Variations for Two Pianos

Percussion: Evelyn Glennie & David Corkhill
Pianos: Sir Georg Solti & Murray Perahia

Best Chamber Music Performance: 31st Annual GRAMMY Awards

Following after John Wallace’s records of Italian baroque trumpet music, this disc shows John to be surely the most versatile of all British trumpet players, equally at home in contemporary and classical repertoire.

The outstanding gem in this collection is the Concert by Dalibor Vačkář, a little-known Czech composer. It is a brilliant, energetic piece scored for an unusual combination of trumpet, keyboards and percussion. Virtuoso interaction between all the soloists generates and essential driving force which contrasts with plangent tonal colours from the trumpet floating over a backcloth of vibraphone and piano.

Whist more conventional, the Hindemith and Janáček explore the full potential of the piano – brass combination, providing added variation and excitement to the brass ensemble medium.

Track List

Concerto For Trumpet, Percussion And Keyboard
Composed By – Vačkář
(16:11)
1 I – “The School” 4:35
2 II – “Blues” 6:11
3 III – “Finale” 5:25

Concert Music For Piano, Brass And Harps. Op. 49
Composed By – Hindemith
(26:58)
4 I – Ruhig Gehende Viertel 5:59
5 II – Lebhaft 6:01
6 III – Sehr Ruhig. Variationen 7:03
7 IV – Mäßig Schnell Kraftvoll 7:55

Capriccio For Piano (Left Hand) And Wind Ensemble
Composed By – Janáček
(20:46)
8 I – Allegro 5:01
9 II – Adagio 5:13
10 III – Allegretto 4:07
11 IV – Andante 6:25

John Wallace – Trumpet / Conductor (tracks 4 to 11)
Radoslav Kvapil – Piano
Evelyn Glennie – Xylophone
The Wallace Collection
Simon Wright – Conductor (tracks 1 to 3)
Members Of The Philharmonia Orchestra

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