Ecstatic Drumbeat

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Album Summary

Performers

• Evelyn Glennie (Percussion)
• Evelyn Glennie (Marimba)
• Evelyn Glennie (Xylophone)
• Tsung-Hsin Hsieh (Percussion)

Conductors

• Chung, Yiu-Kwong
• Shao, En

Ensemble

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Composers

• Yiu-Kwong Chung (1956 - )
• Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929 - 1997)
• Keiko Abe (1937 - )
• Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic (1962 - )

Notes & Reviews:

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 program is wide - ranging in geographical terms, with works by composers from the Far East, as well as by German-based Neboja ivkovic, 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.

The Times, June 2012
Here's something different: a meeting of Britain's most famous percussionist and the Taipei Chinese Orchestra. This resourceful Taiwanese ensemble regularly collaborates with Western virtuosi, and the results are unpredictable, uneven, but never dull...Fascinating sounds crossing hemispheres, epochs and cultures.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Zhongshang Hall, Taipei City, Taiwan (11/2010).

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Chung, Yiu-Kwong : Concerto for percussion & Chinese orchestra

• Performers: Evelyn Glennie (Percussion); Evelyn Glennie (Percussion)
• Conductor: En Shao
• Running Time: 27 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Concerto
• Written: 2009

Abe, Keiko : Prism Rhapsody II, for solo marimba & orchestra (original version)

• Performers: Evelyn Glennie (Marimba); Evelyn Glennie (Marimba)
• Conductor: Yiu-Kwong Chung
• Running Time: 14 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1996

Zivkovic, Nebojsa Jovan : Born to Beat Wild, for suono & percussion, Op. 30

• Performers: Evelyn Glennie (Percussion); Evelyn Glennie (Percussion)
• Running Time: 7 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Contemporary

Mayuzumi, Toshiro : Xylophone Concertino

• Performers: Evelyn Glennie (Xylophone); Evelyn Glennie (Xylophone)
• Conductor: En Shao
• Running Time: 11 min. 19 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1965

Chung, Yiu-Kwong : Emperor Qin Crushing the Battle Formations, for 2 percussionists & Chinese orchestra

• Performers: Tsung-Hsin Hsieh (Percussion); Evelyn Glennie (Percussion); Tsung-Hsin Hsieh (Percussion); Evelyn Glennie (Percussion)
• Conductor: Yiu-Kwong Chung
• Running Time: 14 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 2010