Percussion from Olympus: Dame Evelyn Glennie

Par Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 12 août 2015

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Critique faite à Cadogan Hall, Londres, le 10 août 2015

Abe, Prism Rhapsody for Marimba and Orchestra

Evelyn Glennie & Philip Sheppard, Orologeria aureola

Bertram Wee, Dithyrambs

Psathas, View from Olympus

Psathas, Fragments

Dame Evelyn Glennie, Percussions

Philip Smith, Piano

Britten's Noye's Fludde at Tewkesbury Abbey as part of the Cheltenham Music Festival

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 3rd July

The Benjamin Britten centenary has inspired many groups into performing his works. The opera Noye’s Fludde was written to give amateur children a chance to perform and engage in operatic music alongside a smaller group of adult professional soloists. This performance was part of the Cheltenham Music Festival as their nod to Britten in the composer’s special year.

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Martyn Brabbins celebrates 30 years with BBC Scottish SO

David Smythe, 11th June

Martyn Brabbins celebrates with a world premiere from Errollyn Wallen, Evelyn Glennie revisiting iconic MacMillan and a broad, noble Elgar First Symphony.

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Musik auch für Faschingsmuffel

Isabella Steppan, 27th February

Vielfältig und beschwingt gestaltete das recreation – großes Orchester Graz einen Abend ganz im Zeichen des närrischen Treibens zum Höhepunkt der Faschingszeit.

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LPO plays British music at The Rest is Noise

Renée Reitsma, 7th December

As part of the last full weekend of Southbank Centre's The Rest is Noise festival, Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra presented a programme of British orchestral music from the 1990s.

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Perfect percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and the Bristol Ensemble at Colston Hall

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 12th March

Beethoven did not take precedence in this concert, but he stole the title. As part of the “Brilliant Beethoven” concert series, the Bristol Ensemble performed the Seventh Symphony of the well-known composer. It was programmed at the end of the evening alongside Debussy, Vivaldi and current composer Alexis Alrich. The theme connecting the different works was rhythm.

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Joyce’s Ulysses and Evelyn Glennie open new season at the Theater an der Wien

Zwölftöner, 6th September

There is a famous scene in the noir classic The Third Man in which Joseph Cotten returns to his hotel and is swiftly bundled into a cab that speeds off recklessly through the streets of Vienna.

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Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres is a Bristol-based film composer and classical electronic artist. Alexandra's passion in scoring and as a performer lie in the duality between the classical and electronica worlds, moving picture and her love for the piano. Her music has been described by The White Room Magazine as “majestic, at times monumental…the force and vastness of nature”.

PCM4 Percussion from Olympus: Dame Evelyn Glennie at the BBC Proms