Recordings, Last Year > Marimba

Landscapes: Torke: Jevelin; Mojave; Ticheli: Simple gifts; An American Elegy; Copland: Quiet City / Ji Hye Jung, marimba; Steve Leisring, trumpet

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2013-03-26

Works: Michael Torke: Javelin, overture for orchestra; Mojave, for marimba & wind ensemble; Frank Ticheli: An American Elegy, for symphonic band; Simple Gifts (Four Shaker Songs), for band; Aaron Copland: Q...
Performers: Jung, Ji Hye; Leisring, Steve; Marco, Margaret
Conductors: Popiel, Paul W.
Ensemble: University of Kansas Wind Ensemble

Landscapes is a journey through the rich tapestry of American wind band music, performed by one of the country's leading ensembles. One of Michael Torke's...continue...
Recording information: Lied Center of Kansas, Kansas City (2012-04-01_2012-04-02&2012-)....continue...

Carlos Sanchez Gutiérrez: Diaries - Works for Large Ensemble / Cristina Valdes, Makoto Nakura, Daniel Pesca

1 CD / Urtext (Mexico) / 2013-02-26

Works: Carlos Sánchez-Gutiérrez: ...Ex Machina, for piano, marimba & orchestra; Diaries, for piano & orchestra; Memos (5), for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion; Son del coraz...
Performers: Gerber, Stuart; Hurwitz, Hanna; Kim, Isabel; Li, Richard [Clarinet]; Nakura, Makoto; Pesca, Daniel; Valdes, Cristina
Conductors: Trigos, Juan
Ensemble: Eastman Broadband; Eastman BroadBand Ensemble

Star Splendours / Chin Cheng Lin, marimba

1 CD / Centaur / 2013-02-26

Works: Chin Cheng Lin: Capuccino Lovely, for marimba; The S.e.A., for marimba; Kaleidoscope, for marimba; The Ocean, for marimba; Flyscape, for 2 marimbas; Star Splendour, for 4 marimbas
Performers: Foo, Fiona; Helsen, Kelly; Lin, Chin Cheng; Manalova, Irena

Recording information: Academiezaal, Sint-Truiden, Belgium (04/2010)....continue...

Emma Lou Diemer: Pacific Ridge / London SO; Slovak Radio SO; Czech Radio SO. Brynmore Jones; Joel Suben; Vladimir Valek

1 CD / Navona / 2013-02-26

Works: Emma Lou Diemer: Santa Barbara Overture; Concerto for Piano in One Movement; Unspecified: [Untitled CD-ROM Track]
Performers: Daughtrey, Nathan
Conductors: Jones, Brynmor Llewelyn; Suben, Joel Eric

Santa Barbara-based composer Diemer (b.1927) is a fixture in the Californian classical music community, having received commissions and performances from orchestras and ensembles throughout the...continue...

Justin Rubin: A Waltz Through the Vapor / Matthew McCright

1 CD / Innova / 2013-02-26

Works: Justin Rubin: The Still Waters of Sagamore Hill, for piano; Affetuoso, for piano (no 2 from Piano Album 2008); Lullaby for Max, for piano; Musical Specimen, for bassoon, marimba & piano; Con seriet&#...
Performers: Campbell, Jefferson; Chernyshev, Alexander [Piano]; Husby, Betsy [Cello]; Koshinski, Gene; Lipke-Perry, Tracy [Piano]; McCright, Matthew; Scott, Lorie [Flute]

Sacred Heart cathedral in Duluth, Minnesota, is where the performances on composer Justin Rubin's latest album were captured. The building's hundred-year-old bricks and sandstone work...continue...
Recording information: Sacred Heart Studios, Duluth, Minnesota (2010-10-19&2011-12-16&2012-)....continue...

Essential 20th Century Classics - Over 2 hours of captivating modern classics

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-01-22

Works: Sergey Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Joaquín Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Aram Khachaturian: Spartacus; Edward Elgar: Concerto for Cello; Sergey Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; C...
Performers: Beniston, Paul; Bloch, Nikolaj; Bowers-Broadbent, Christopher; Currie, Colin; Devos, Louis; Donohoe, Peter; du Pre, Jacqueline; Fischer-Dieskau, Manuel; Gibson, Simon; Gilchrist, Jane; Hendricks, Bar...
Conductors: Previn, Andre; Rattle, Simon, Sir; Temirkanov, Yuri; Barbirolli, John; Ozawa, Seiji; Prêtre, Georges; Penderecki, Krzysztof; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Kaljuste, Tönu; Metzmacher, Ingo; B...
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Modern (Frankfurt)

Essential 20th Century Classics is a 2-CD set featuring a collection of important works written between 1901 and 2000. This period is sometimes thought of...continue...

Armaud Petit (b.1959): Concertino Nervoso / Duo Akrostick Percussion Ens., Julienne Klein, soprano

1 CD / Chant du Monde / 2013-01-08

Works: Arnaud Petit: Concertino Nervoso, for voice & percussion; Si près du vent, for 2 marimbas; Fantosmes, for 2 marimbas & 2 vibraphones; Song from waves, for percussion & electronics
Performers: Ibrahim, Kristie [Percussion, Marimba, Vibraphone]; Klein, Julieanne; Marandola, Fabrice; Petit, Arnaud

Born in 1959, Arnaud Petit studied with Luciano Berio. In addition to composing, he has taught at IRCAM, Stanford University and the Conservatoire National Supérieur...continue...
Personnel: Joseph Malloch (computer).

Recording information: La Salle Multimédia (2010-2011); La Salle Tanna Schulich de l'École de musique Schulich (2010-2011)....continue...

Three Views - Music for trombone, piano & percussion / Mark Hetzler, trombone; Jessica Johnson, piano; Anthony Di Sanza, percussion

1 CD / Summit Records / 2013-01-08

Works: Stephen Rush: Rebellion, for trombone, piano & percussion; Inner Rebellion, for trombone, piano & percussion; David Vayo: Climb, for trombone, piano & percussion; James Stephenson: New England Scenes...
Performers: Fischer, Martha; Hammes, Todd; Hetzler, Mark; Johnson, Jessica; Kleve, Sean; Sanza, Anthony di

Expedition Audio - Music that deserves to be heard
The music is as unusual as it is beautiful and colorful, always holding me in rapture through...continue...
Recording information: Mills Concert Hall, University Of Wisconsin, Madison, W....continue...

Wood and Forest

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2012-11-20

Works: Jacob Bancks: The Trees Where I Was Born, for marimba; Arbor Una Nobilis, for marimba & violin; Kenji Bunch: Duo for viola & vibraphone; Robert Paterson: Forest Shadows, for marimba; Carlos Sá...
Performers: Bunch, Kenji [Viola]; Fedele, David; Mills, Jesse; Nakura, Makoto; Smith, Wilhelmina

Recording information: Catholic St. Viator Kitashirakawa Church, Kyoto, Japan (02/09/2011-02/10/2011); The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York city (02/09/2011-02/10/2011); Catholic St. Via...continue...

Robert Paterson: Six Mallet Marimba

1 CD / CD Baby Independants / 2012-11-14

Works: Robert Paterson: Komodo, for marimba; Piranha, for marimba; Stillness, for oboe & marimba; Clarinatrix, for bass clarinet & marimba; Duo for flute & marimba; Tongue and Groove, for saxophone & marimb...
Performers: Justeson, Jeremy; Moughalian, Sato; Paterson, Robert [Composer/Percussion]; Paterson, Victoria; Peck, Dan; Schram, Sarah; Stoops, Meighan; Zeh, Robin

Recording information: Sear Sound, Studio C, New York, NY (2009-12-06_2009-12-07&2010-)....continue...

David Rosenboom: Life Field - Retrospective Selections

1 CD / Tzadik / 2012-10-30

Works: David Rosenboom: Continental Divide, for keyboards or mallet percussion (or chamber orchestra); Pocket Pieces, for flute, alto saxophone, viola & percussion; And Come Up Dripping, for oboe & electron...
Performers: Cleve, Libby Van; Floyd, J.B.; Krieger, Ulrich; Martirano, Salvatore; Menzies, Mark; Miller, James [Trumpet]; Ondarza, Danielle; Ray, Vicki; Rosenboom, Daniel; Rosenboom, David; Tavolacci, Christine ...
Conductors: Rosenboom, David;
Ensemble: ; California EAR Unit

David Rosenboom is a composer/performer of unprecedented range and experience. He performed at the Electric Circus in 1969, on the original recording of In C...continue...
Recording information: Dizzy Gillespie Recording Studio At California Institut....continue...

Jingle Them Bells: Christmas Favorites Re-imagined by Julie Giroux / UNT Symphonic Band - Fisher

1 CD / Klavier / 2012-10-30

Works: Julie Giroux: Jingle Them Bells, for symphonic band; Three Wise Guys, for clarinet, tenor saxophone, marimba & symphonic band; Away in a Manger, for symphonic band; The Blue Danube Christmas Waltz, f...
Performers: Barrette, Anthony [Sax (Tenor)]; Hashi, Alyse [Flute]; Hicks, Kevin [Trombone]; Pickford, Kelsey; Pronske, Jack [Marimba]; Strudwick, Carlos [Trumpet]
Conductors: Fisher, Dennis
Ensemble: ; UNT Symphonic Band

Recording information: Winspear Performance Hall, Murchison Performing Arts Ce (01/14/2012-01/16/2012)....continue...

Machet die Tore weit - Choral and Organ music for Advent and Christmas / Kay Johannsen, organ

1 Super Audio CD / MD&G / 2012-10-16

Works: Andreas Hammerschmidt: Machet die Tore weit (Open Wide the Gates); Michael Praetorius: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (How Brightly Shines the Morning Star) (from the Polyhymnia caduc; Den d...
Performers: Aures, Michael [Drums]; Johannsen, Kay; Kartmann, Daniel; Lauxmann, Balduin; Mycka, Katarzyna
Conductors: Homburg, Rainer Johannes
Ensemble: ; Handel's Company; Stuttgarter Hymnus Childrens Choir

Recording information: Christuskirche, Stuttgart-Gänsheide (06/02/2011-06/05/2011)....continue...

Harrison Birtwistle: Orpheus Elegies; Three Bach Arias / Melinda Maxwell, oboe; Helen Tunstall, harp; Andrew Watts, countertenor

1 CD / The Classics Label / 2012-10-09

Works: Harrison Birtwistle: Orpheus Elegies (26); Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 21, "Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis BWV 21; Cantata "Herr, deine Augen sehen nach dem Glauben", BWV 102; Cantata no 172, ...
Performers: Fulbrook, Ben [Marimba]; Maxwell, Melinda; Seaton, Claire; Stafford, William; Tunstall, Helen; Verity, Tom [Clarinet, Clarinet (Bass)]; Watts, Andrew

Harrison Birtwistle's major chamber work is scored mainly for oboe and harp, and refers to some of Rilke's sonnets. His arrangements of three Bach arias...continue...
Recording information: All Saints Church, East Finchley, England (2008-08-28_2008-08-29&2008-)....continue...

Chamber music of David Kechley: Colliding Objects

1 CD / Innova / 2012-09-25

Works: David Kechley: Dancing, 4 movements for 5 percussionists playing 44 instruments; Design and Construction, trialogues, for trumpet, saxophone & percussion; Untimely Passages, a slow groove & chaconne,...
Performers: Bergeron, Tom; Bodner, Stephan; Chatterton, Linda; Chiu, Candy; Gold, Matthew; Stevenson, Doris; Tompkins, Joseph; Ward, Matt; Zdorovetchi, Ina
Conductors:
Ensemble: TimeTable

Award-winning composer David Kechley mines the intimate in order to find the dramatic, eschewing volume and mass in favor of tension and melodic invention of...continue...

Works for percussion solo by Séjourné, Gerassimez, Brostrom, Psathas / Alexaj Gerassimez, percussion; Nicolai Gerassimez, piano

1 CD / Genuin / 2012-09-25

Works: Emmanuel Séjourné: Famim 2, for vibraphone, marimba, percussion & piano; Alexej Gerassimez: Echtonan, for 2 marimbas; Eravie, for marimba; Variations on "Libertango", for vibraphone & piano...
Performers: Gerassimez, Alexej; Gerassimez, Nicolai; Heise, Julius [Percussion]

What is percussion? To answer that question, you'd need 500 pages, if you wanted to list all the instruments and all the ways of playing...continue...
Recording information: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne, Germany (10/28/2011-10/31/2011)....continue...

25 Years with the Tammittam Percussion Ensemble - works by Germaine Tailleferre, Edgard Varese, Bruno Maderna et al.

2 CD / Dynamic / 2012-08-28

Works: Germaine Tailleferre: Hommage à Rameau, partita for 2 pianos & percussion; Bruno Maderna: Concerto for 2 pianos & instruments; Mario Pagotto: Le Ombre delle Idee, for 2 pianos & percussion no ...
Performers: Barbieri, Massimo; Bonelli, Brunilde; Boniolo, Patrizia; Castiglioni, Tommaso; Facchin, Guido; Frigotto, Francesca; Lovato, Federico; Maioli, Renato; Montanari, Silvia; Orvieto, Aldo; Sperandeo, Fran...
Conductors: Facchin, Guido
Ensemble: ; Tammittam Percussion Ensemble

In 2011, on the 25th anniversary of the Tàmmittam Percussion Ensemble, founded by Guido Facchin in Vicenza in 1986, he introduced the idea of a...continue...

Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 1 "Exile"; Symphony No. 50 "Mount Saint Helens" / Schwarz, Seattle SO

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-07-31

Works: Alan Hovhaness: Symphony no 1 ("Exile Symphony"), Op. 17; Fantasy on Japanese woodprints, Op. 211; Symphony no 50 ("Mount St. Helens"), Op. 360
Performers: Johnson, Ron
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard
Ensemble: ; Seattle Symphony Orchestra

One of the most intriguing and individual of 20th century American composers, Alan Hovhaness rejected the cosmopolitan modernism of other leading composers of the 1930s...continue...
Recording information: Seattle Opera House, Seattle, WA....continue...

Steve Reich: Drumming, Parts I-IV; Six Pianos; Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices & Organ / Russ Hartenberger, Bob Becker, James Preiss

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2012-07-31

Works: Steve Reich: Drumming, for 2 female voices, piccolo, 4 pairs of bongos, 3 marimbas & 3 glockenspiels; Six Pianos; Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, for 3 female voices, 3 marimbas, 3 gl...
Performers: Barbara, Joan La; Becker, Bob [Percussion]; Chambers, Steve; Clayton, Jay; Ferchen, Timothy; Harms, Ben; Hartenberger, Russ; Jarrett, Janice; Preiss, James; Reich, Steve; Velez, Glen

Drumming is a classic of hope and achievement. Coming after a few years - the late sixties - when so many old barriers had fallen,...continue...
Recording information: Studio Rahlstedt, Hamburg, Germany (01/1974)....continue...

Chamber music of Jonathan Leshnoff: String Quartet No. 2; Cosmic Variations; Seven Glances as a Mirage et al.

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-06-26

Works: Jonathan Leshnoff: Quartet for Strings no 2 "Edelmann"; Seven Glances at a Mirage, for violin, clarinet & piano; Cosmic Variations on a Haunted Theme, for 3 players; ...without a chance, for 3 percus...
Performers: Depeters, David; Dove, Barry; Miahky, Stephen; Nemith, Joshua; Opus 3 Trio; Simas, Jerome; Stoyanov, Svet
Conductors:
Ensemble: Carpe Diem String Quartet; Opus 3 Trio

Jonathan Leshnoff is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary American music, and his lyricism is accompanied by vibrant expressive qualities. The String Quartet...continue...