Videography

Virtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie collaborates with RSC Artistic Director Gregory Doran to create a satirical futuristic vision of a world resounding in battle.

The DVD includes a director’s commentary with Gregory Doran and Assistant Director Ng Choon Ping; interviews with cast members Adjoa Andoh, Charlotte Arrowsmith, Gavin Fowler and Amber James; and a short film, ‘Sounds of War’, on Evelyn Glennie’s music for the production.

RSC

Finding Altamira (released as Altamira in Spain) is a 2016 Spanish biographical drama film starring Antonio Banderas, and directed by Hugh Hudson.

The film chronicles the groundbreaking discovery of stone age cave paintings in the Cave of Altamira in Cantabria, Spain, and the subsequent controversy by leading religious and scientific figures of the day.

Actors: ‎ Rupert Everett, Javivi, Nicholas Farrell, Antonio Banderas, Clément Sibony

Director: Hugh Hudson

Soundtrack: Composed by Mark Knopfler & Evelyn Glennie

A documentary film of the Taipei Chinese Orchestra’s 2012 European Tour, which took the them to Manchester in the UK, Hanover in Germany and Paris, France. Follow the orchestra on this fascinating coming-together of cultures – an explosion of colour and dynamic musicianship.

Tour documentary. Original tour concert programme included:

• Pei-Kuan: Stock Tunes – The Joyful Spring & Wind Through the Pines
• Jiping Zhao: Following the Pagoda Tree in Search of the Root of Our Ancestors
• Tan Dun: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (version for Erhu and Chinese Orchestra)
• Yiu-Kwong Chung: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra
• Tan Dun: Northwest Suite

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Conductor: Yiu-Kwong Chung
Taipei Chinese Orchestra

This award-winning performance of Bartók’s celebrated work 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: Music for Two Pianos and Percussion
Bonus Feature: Solti & Perahia play Bartók

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

Best Chamber Music Performance: 31st Annual GRAMMY Awards (Awarded for the CD release on which this DVD recording is based)

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. Painstaking crafted and wonderfully cinematic, Touch the Sound engages the ears, the eyes and heart to rousing effect. The film was directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer and featuring improviser Fred Frith alongside Evelyn herself, in her most celebrated on-screen appearance.

Feature film

Percussion & Found Objects: Evelyn Glennie
Guitars & Found Objects: Fred Frith
Tapdancer: Roxane Butterfly
Taikos & Drums: Za Ondekoza
Piano: Misa (This)
Violin: Saikou (This)
Foghorns: Jason ‘The Fogmaster’
Drumkit: Horazio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez

Best Sound: German Film Prize
Critics’ Week Award: Locarno International Film Festival
Golden Dove Award: International Leipzig Festival
Best Documentary: BAFTA Scotland

A breathtaking showcase of Evelyn’s on-stage talent recorded live at the Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg in 2004. Featuring exquisitely sensitive playing from the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg under the baton of Brawell Tovey, this is a performance not to be missed.

Beethoven: Overture ‘Leonore III’
Másson: Konzertstück
Schmitt: 6 Miniatures for Marimba Solo
Vivaldi/Glennie: Concerto in C Major, RV 443 (originally for piccolo recorder)
Bonus Feature: Encountering Evelyn Glennie

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Conductor: Bramwell Tovey
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg

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

This visual tribute to one of the most remarkable percussionists of our day, the prodigiously gifted Evelyn Glennie, gives us a rewarding insight into both the personal and professional appeal of this young artist. Her tastes in music have shown themselves to be as cosmopolitan as can be, for she gleans inspiration from all corners of the world; her admitted ambition is to be the David Attenborough of percussion, and her trip to Rio to explore the musical possibilities of the samba has much whetted her appetite in this respect. The documentary film of her visit to the world-famous South American carnival opens this introduction to Evelyn Glennie; she is shown at work (and at ease) with local musicians, taking part in the carnival procession itself, and bringing away with her an excitement about a liberating approach to music so much in tune with her own.

Evelyn Glennie in Rio:

• Evelyn’s early life
• In Rio de Janeiro
• The final rehearsal
• The carnival
• Looking back

‘Fiesta’

• Bizet/Shchedrin: Carmen Suite
• Rosauro: Concerto for Marimba and Strings

Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Presenter: Melvyn Bragg (Evelyn Glennie in Rio)
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth (‘Fiesta’)
London Symphony Orchestra (‘Fiesta’)