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?
Please note – there are two variations of album cover art for this release, one of which was also used as the cover for Evelyn’s biography ‘Good Vibrations’.
Repertoire
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
Performers
Solo Percussion: Evelyn Glennie
Conductors: Barry Wordsworth & Ray Russell
National Philharmonic Orchestra
