Alrich, Jenkins & Rorem: Mallet Concertos Evelyn Glennie, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong & Jean Thorel

• Alexis Alrich (b. 1955): Marimba Concerto:
• 1 Alrich: Marimba Concerto: I. Con moto 11:13
• 2 Alrich: Marimba Concerto: II. Lento 09:54
• 3 Alrich: Marimba Concerto: III. Energico 11:57
• Karl Jenkins (b. 1944):
• 4 Jenkins: Marimba Concerto "La foila" (After Corelli's Op. 5 No. 12) 11:20
• Ned Rorem (b. 1923): Mallet Concerto:
• 5 Rorem: Mallet Concerto: I. A Beginning 03:35
• 6 Rorem: Mallet Concerto: II. Another Minotaur 05:27
• 7 Rorem: Mallet Concerto: III. Back and Forth 03:40
• 8 Rorem: Mallet Concerto: IV. A Xylo-Waltz 03:18
• 9 Rorem: Mallet Concerto: V. Let Me In 04:45
• 10 Rorem: Mallet Concerto: VI. Tag 02:12
• 11 Rorem: Mallet Concerto: VII. An Ending 03:33
• Total Runtime 01:10:54

Info zu Alrich, Jenkins & Rorem: Mallet Concertos

This compilation of concertos for mallet instruments features triple GRAMMY Award-winning percussion virtuoso Dame Evelyn Glennie and City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. Alexis Alrich’s Marimba Concerto, a rich amalgam of bold rhythms and exuberance, also explores Mexican and Asian-inspired music. Sir Karl Jenkins traces the 15th-century tune La Folia, furnishing it with refinement and strongly characterised intensity. Ned Rorem’s Mallet Concerto highlights the contrasting resonances of four different pitched mallets in music of drama and dynamism.

Evelyn Glennie, glockenspiel, marimba, vibraphone, xylophone
City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong
Jean Thorel, conductor

Dame Evelyn Glennie
is the first person in history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist, performing worldwide with the greatest orchestras, conductors and artists. Evelyn paved the way for orchestras globally to feature percussion concerti when she played the first percussion concerto in the history of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in 1992.

A leading commissioner of new works, Evelyn has vastly expanded the solo percussion repertoire with more than 200 pieces to her name from many of the world’s most eminent composers. “It’s important that I continue to commission and collaborate with a diverse range of composers whilst recognising the young talent coming through”. Evelyn composes music for film, television, theatre and music library companies and is a double GRAMMY award winner and BAFTA nominee. She regularly provides masterclasses and consultations to inspire the next generation of musicians. The film ‘Touch the Sound’ and her enlightening TED speech remain key testimonies to her innovative approach to sound-creation.

Leading 1000 drummers, Evelyn had the honour of a prominent role in the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

“Playing at an event like that was proof that music really affects all of us, connecting us in ways that the spoken word cannot”. Evelyn’s solo recordings, which now exceed 40 CDs, are as diverse as her career on-stage. These range from original improvisations, collaborations, percussion concerti and ground-breaking modern solo percussion projects.

Evelyn was awarded an OBE in 1993 and now has over 100 international awards to date, including the Polar Music Prize and the Companion of Honour. She was recently appointed the first female President of Help Musicians, only the third person to hold the title since Sir Edward Elgar and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

The Evelyn Glennie Podcast was launched in 2020 featuring popular personalities from the worlds of music, television and academia. The episodes centred around what listening means to different people and its importance in everyday life. Subsequent series are being planned with a wider range of guests. Evelyn is currently creating The Evelyn Glennie Collection with a vision to open a centre that embodies her mission to Teach the World to Listen. She aims to ‘improve communication and social cohesion by encouraging everyone to discover new ways of listening as proven in her book ‘Listen World!’. We want to inspire, to create, to engage and to empower’.

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