Recorded at the ZuckerFabrik, Dormagen, Germany on 14-16 July 2003

Taken from the film 'Touch the Sound'

Paavo Järvi is known for having championed many works by contemporary Estonian composers such as Arvo Pärt, Lepo Sumera and Eduard Tubin. After his recent critically acclaimed Arvo Pärt recordings on Virgin Classics he now returns to another Estonian composer, Erkki-Sven Tüür whose works he often directs in international venues. Paavo Järvi recorded Tüür's "Insula Deserta" & Homage to Sibelius on the label several years ago.

Symphony no. 4, 'Magma', is dedicated to Scottish virtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who tours extensively in Europe and the USA and performs with an extraordinarily wide variety of orchestras and contemporary musicians.

A recent concerto for percussion and orchestra is Margaret Brouwer’s Aurolucent Circles composed for Evelyn Glennie and first performed by her with the Seattle Symphony conducted by Gerard Schwarz. It is a full-fledged concerto in three movements designed to explore the many possibilities of solo percussion with orchestra and to exploit the dedicatee’s virtuosity to the full.

The Soundtrack to the critically acclaimed film.

Album Details
Recorded in January 2004 at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra's Acoustically Magnificent Home of the Philharmonic Hall in Liverpool. The first release in the Four Volume Concerto Project brings together a top English Orchestra with Evelyn Glennie and Julian Lloyd Webber, together with the paganini of the timpani, Jonathan Haas.