Composer: John Corigliano
Performer: Evelyn Glennie, Hila Plitmann, Mark Baechle
Orchestra: Albany Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: David Alan Miller
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Release: 2013
Size: 0.98 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Conjurer
01. Cadenza I
02. I. Wood
03. Cadenza II
04. II. Metal
05. Cadenza III
06. III. Skin
Recorded: 13 March 2011
Recording Venue: Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, New York, USA
07. Vocalise
Recorded: 22 May 2011
Recording Venue: EMPAC Concert Hall, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
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. Vocalise employs electronics in a way that serves to heighten the expressive beauty of the writing, gradually leading the listener from a purely acoustic experience to one that becomes suffused by amplification and electronics.
Awarded Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2007, Evelyn Glennie is the first person in musical history successfully to create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist. She is the leading commissioner of around 170 new works for solo percussion from many of the world’s most eminent composers.