Instrumentation

solo perc: 14,16,18" crash cyms/8", 10" garbage cyms/2 Hi hat cyms (high and low)/siz.hi hat cym/siz.cym/ride cym/choke cym/bell/vib/Drum kit with piccolo snare, rototoms and high Japanese drum - picc.1.1.ca.2.2 - 432.btbrn.1 - timp - perc (2):2 glsp/vib/2 wdbl/tgl/BD/2 bowed cym/ spalsh cym/3 c.bell/hi-hat/Drum kit/flexatone/small pipe (metal mallets)/chinese cym/shaker - hp - strings

Availability

Score and parts for hire

Reviews

‘Travelling at a frenetic pace in this performance, the first of three movements was a soundscape of rapidly chattering and clipped articulations on a mix of cymbals that included the hi-hat. This was pitted against a choppy counterpoint of driving rhythms and explosive orchestral outbursts that exuberantly bounced off the walls. In this zany, pastiche of film music, folk, jazz and blues crammed within a classical frame, the brass players wallowed in their attention-seeking scooping, whining choruses so clearly removed from their traditional role of contained support. Daring colours included a jazzy slapped bass and grimacing woodwind cries, ending with the soloists improvising a brushed cadenza on the tam-tam. “Good Vibes”, by contrast, was a tuneful excursion that floated the swimming resonance of the vibraphone on a surface of marbled, tranquil strings.’ The Australian (Gillian Wills), 6th March 2006

Concerto for Percussion

No Venue (Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)

(mvt 3 only) Evelyn Glennie/BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Robert Ziegler

Concerto for Percussion

Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Sydney, NSW, Australia)

Conservatorium Orchestra/Daryll Pratt/Luke Dollman

Concerto for Percussion

Sydney Conservatorium of Music (Sydney, NSW, Australia)

Conservatorium Orchestra/Daryll Pratt/Luke Dollman

Concerto for Percussion

King's Park (Perth, WA, Australia)

(mvt 3 only) Dame Evelyn Glennie/Brad Cohen/West Australian Symphony Orchestra

Concerto for Percussion

ABC Classic FM (Australia)

Evelyn Glennie/Takuo Yuasa/The Queensland Orchestra