Evelyn Glennie: Ecstatic Drumbeat

Evelyn Glennie, percussion; Taipei Chinese Orchestra / En Shao and Yiu-Kwong Chung, conductors
Tzu-You Lin, suona · Tsung-Hsin Hsieh, percussion

Works for Percussion and Chinese Orchestra
Yiu-Kwong Chung: Concerto for Percussion and Chinese Orchestra; Emperor Qin Crushing the Battle Formations for two percussionists and Chinese orchestra; Keiko Abe (orch. Yiu-Kwong Chung): Prism Rhapsody for marimba and orchestra; Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic: Born to Beat Wild for suona and percussion; Toshiro Mayuzumi (orch. Simon Kong Su Leong): Concertino for Xylophone and Orchestra

Appearing with leading orchestras and conductors around the world, Evelyn Glennie has also collaborated with musicians as diverse as Emmanuel Ax, the King's Singers and Bjork. Another unexpected partner is the Taipei Chinese Orchestra, with which she first performed at the 2009 Deaflympics. Returning to Taiwan a year later, she recorded the present disc of original compositions and arrangements for percussion and Chinese orchestra. The programme is wide-ranging in geographical terms, with works by composers from the Far East, as well as by German-based Nebojsa Zivkovic, whose duo Born to Beat Wild for bass drum and trumpet here is performed with a suona, 'Chinese oboe', replacing the trumpet. But the disc also spans a vast distance in time, in that the final work, Emperor Qin Crushing the Battle Formations, is a reworking by the composer Yiu-Kwong Chung of an ancient score first performed in the year 627 at the court of the second Tang Emperor. Ecstatic Drumbeat is the last of four discs that present collaborations between the Taipei Chinese Orchestra and soloists from a Western tradition, with Evelyn Glennie following in the footsteps of flutist Sharon Bezaly, saxophonist Claude Delangle and trombone player Christian Lindberg on her own oriental journey.

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