Discography: 2020s

Joan Tower is widely regarded as one of today’s most important American composers. The works heard here in their world premiere recordings are part of a growing legacy that one pundit has described as “The Power of Tower.” Strike Zones is tailor-made for percussionist Evelyn Glennie’s dazzling technique and impeccable musicianship. The work’s orchestration is crafted to enhance a stage filled with percussion instruments while in Small they are contained on a single table, the soloist working like a brilliant chef. The piano concerto Still/Rapids was inspired by the glistening beauty and powerful force of water, and Ivory and Ebony, written as a test piece for an international piano competition, is infused with Towers “high-energy” signature.

Strike Zones 00:21:10

Small 00:06:31

Still/Rapids
I. Still 00:05:00
II. Rapids 00:12:36

Ivory and Ebony 00:07:33

Evelyn Glennie, Percussion

Blair McMillen, Piano

Albany Symphony Orchestra

David Alan Miller

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The original motion picture soundtrack for the critically acclaimed and Academy Award-winning film Sound of Metal is available on all digital service providers via Nonesuch Records today. Winner of two Academy Awards—for Sound and Editing—Sound of Metal’s soundtrack, which features a score by Abraham Marder and Nicolas Becker, highlights the film’s extraordinary sonic design and includes music written specifically for the project as well as pre-existing works such as “Rejoice, Beelzebub!” by Thomas de Hartmann and George Ivanovich Gurdjieff; “Cet amour me tue” by Arthur H, performed by Arthur H and Martha Wainwright as well as by the film’s actors Olivia Cooke and Mathieu Amalric; and two songs by Margaret Chardiet. The world-renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie is featured on three of the album’s pieces; other performers include Marder, Becker, and the film’s lead actor Riz Ahmed.

1 SOUND – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
2 Cochlea (feat. Evelyn Glennie) – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker3 Audiology (feat. Evelyn Glennie) – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
4 Last Threads (feat. Evelyn Glennie) – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
5 North – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
6 OF – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
7 ‘Rejoice, Beelzebub!’ (feat. Carolina Santana) – Elan Sicroff, Carolina Santana
8 The Deed – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker, Carolina Santana
9 METAL – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker, Carolina Santana
10 Bells – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
11 Communion – Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker
12 Green – Abraham Marder
13 Cet Amour Me Tue (feat. Martha Wainwright) – Arthur H
14 Purify (feat. Harry Cantwell) – Margaret Chardiet
15 Cet Amour Me Tue – Olivia Cooke, Matheiu Amalric
16 Purify – Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from the movie Sound of Metal (2019). The music by various artists.

Source: Sound of Metal Movie
Genre: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music by Various Artists (Abraham Marder, Nicolas Becker & VA)

Winner of two Academy Awards—for Sound and Editing

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Leading American composer John Corigliano had reservations about writing a percussion concerto, but the challenge fascinated him. The result is Conjurer, a concerto for percussion like no other, in which ‘wood, metal and skin’ are utilised in such a way that the soloist, Dame Evelyn Glennie—the world’s greatest percussion virtuoso—‘conjures’ the musical material from these three choirs, and the orchestra then shares and develops the themes.

Tracks: Restless Hands / Twisted / The Tease / Zahra’s Song / Water Baby / Dance Of Hands / Lava Keys / Broken Clown / Summer’s Itch / Throbbin Whine / Prison Of Sound / Open Barrier

Guitar – Jon Hemmersam

Daf – Asal Malekzadeh

Percussion – Dame Evelyn Glennie, CH DBE.

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“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.”

Concertos for Mallet Instruments – ALRICH, A. / JENKINS, K. / ROREM, N. (Glennie, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, Thorel)

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As a performer and conductor, Christian Lindberg has a rare ability to electrify an audience, and as reviewers attest, the same applies to his compositions. Released on disc in 2018, his viola concerto Steppenwolf was described as one of those rare contemporary works that captures the attention from the first notes (Fanfare) while the five-star review in BBC Music Magazine spoke of thrilling orchestral storytelling and glorious musical cavalcades. The present album offers further opportunity to acquaint oneself with the unstoppable energy of Lindberg in all of his three incarnations. The disc is named after the closing work, 2017, described by Lindberg as his testimony about a year when the world changed, as a result of the US presidential election. Starting work on it on 1st January he followed the news in the media and let it feed his creative process throughout the course of the year. The opening work is an earlier one, commissioned for the nine trombones of The New Trombone Collective, and inspired by the spectacle of great waves rolling in at the beach in Wollongong, Australia. Framed by these two is Liverpool Lullabies, a concertante work for percussion and trombone which Lindberg composed with Evelyn Glennie and himself in mind. They are also the soloists on this recording, supported by the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra which also shines in the other two works on the disc.

Lindberg, C: The Waves of Wollongong

• New Trombone Collective, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
• Christian Lindberg

Lindberg, C: Liverpool Lullabies

• Antwerp Symphony Orchestra
• Glennie, Evelyn
• Lindberg, Christian

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The third studio album by Countermeasure features music influenced by jazz, pop, folk, soul, and contemporary choral. It showcases the group as never before, performing alongside a lineup of powerhouse guest solo instrumentalists. Featuring legendary collaborators including multi-GRAMMY award-winning, JUNO award-winning, platinum-selling, and international musicians.

For Alice – This track is the only co-write on Guest Sessions. The press release explains that “Unlike the other works, Dame Glennie’s improvised performance came first. She provided Countermeasure’s Aaron Jensen with several extended improvisations to choose from on a variety of percussion instruments. Jensen selected Dame Evelyn’s expressive performance on the RAV drum (a dreamy and resonant pitched hand percussion instrument). Jensen kept her improvisation completely intact and mapped melody and lyric over the foundations of her gestural performance.”

Countermeasure’s collaborators are:

• Michael Davidson
• Christian Roberge
• Kevin Fox
• Rich Brown
• Randy Brecker
• Cindy Cashdollar
• Charlie Gabriel
• Dame Evelyn Glennie
• Natalie MacMaster
• Pamelia Stickney

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This CD which is also available as a download and stream features the contemporary organ music of Alan Gibbs and his friends. Featuring Dame Evelyn Glennie on tubular bells and xylophone in Glasgow Bells, the CD is principally and organ programme featuring Kevin Bowyer on the Organs of Girton College, Cambridge and Memorial Hall, University of Glasgow.

The record involves a range of percussion instruments from Evelyn’s growing collection. Instruments used in the recording include Timpani, Waterphone, Tibetan Singing Bowls, Cymbals and a number of smaller instruments throughout the session. The initial idea for the record focused around Evelyn improvising a range of pieces from melodic rhythmical streams to droned notes.

Kevin Bowyer plays Organ Music by Alan Gibbs with Dame Evelyn Gennie

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