Percussion music

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

James Dillon: East 11th St NY 10008 (Percussion Ensemble); Ti.re-Ti.ke-Dha (Solo Drumkit):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPKSKHhss3o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsfdH-uri1A&feature=related

Helmut Lachenmann: Interieur 1 (solo percussionist):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T8jQfduN5s

[Serial_Apologist]

Anyone else see Stomu Yamash'ta in the Roundhouse in the 1970s? What has he been doing since? Any good recordings?

Never did see him, Dave. Seems he became a monk:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stomu_Yamashta

[Dave2002]

Ah. There were one or two "mega" LP recordings issued. can anyone remember what they were?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Ah. There were one or two "mega" LP recordings issued. can anyone remember what they were?

There was Oiseau-lyre DSLO 1 with Henze Prison Song, Takemitsu Seasons and Maxwell Davies Turis Campanarum Sonantium. The latter is/was available on Decca CD in a PMD anthology with the trumpet concerto and the Renaissance Scottish Dances http://www.amazon.co.uk/Maxwell-Davi...4182000&sr=1-2

[verismissimo]

Kagel: Match fur 3 Spieler. A particular favourite. Unusually in music, a work of great wit.

[Dave2002]

Some more:

Elliott Carter:
Eight pieces for four timpani
John Cage:
Music for percussion quartet
Irwin Bazelon:
Triple play - for 2 trombones and percussion
Nikolai Kapustin:
Concerto for 2 pianos and percussion
- this one feels more like jazz!

[Pabmusic]

Silly me! I'd overlooked Percy Grainger. He wrote so much that includes significant percussion - especially 'tuneful percussion'. Something like The Warriors is an obvious candidate, but I'll nominate his arrangement of Ravel's La Vallee des cloches, for all sorts of marimbas, gongs and things. Here's also a recording of percussion music: http://www.move.com.au/disc/woof-tun...percy-grainger

[Pabmusic]

Paul Creston's Marimba Concerto (1940)
Julius Tausch: Timpani concerto (1870)
Clementi: Twelve waltzes for piano and tambourine, op. 38 (I'd love to play this!)
Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto (I have played side drum this, in 1975)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Nielsen is either "pushing the envelope" so much that the contents go over the standard postage rate, Pabs, or mean-spirited because you haven't included the Fifth Symphony (or the Fourth for that matter. Or Shostakovich #10).

The OP mentions "classics", so perhaps we need to include the most boring CD I know:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Naxos/8557610

[JohnSkelton]

The OP mentions "classics", so perhaps we need to include the most boring CD I know:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Naxos/8557610

That looks dire, ferney . Xenakis's masterpieces should be essential here; I don't think Birtwistle's For O, For O, the Hobbyhorse is Forgot has been remembered here, and there's a percussion concerto by Friedrich Cerha just issued on Kairos http://www.mdt.co.uk/cerha-friedrich...ez-kairos.html. I haven't heard it, though.

The website for Les Percussions de Strasbourg http://www.percussionsdestrasbourg.com/Presentation,30 might be interesting in this context.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I don't think Birtwistle's For O, For O, the Hobbyhorse is Forgot has been remembered here,

I "remembered that I'd forgotten" this piece just before I nodded off last night - and forgot it again this morning!

[hedgehog]

For solo percussion I think Zyklus and Psappha are seminal works, but a favourite of mine as a "following on" from these works is Per Nørgård's I Ching

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j8jYPOm3Z8&feature=related

[Dave2002]

Nielsen is either "pushing the envelope" so much that the contents go over the standard postage rate, Pabs, or mean-spirited because you haven't included the Fifth Symphony (or the Fourth for that matter. Or Shostakovich #10).

The OP mentions "classics", so perhaps we need to include the most boring CD I know:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Naxos/8557610

Shostakovich 4 also has a spectacular timpani outburst just before the end. Other Shostakovich symphonies also demonstrate percussive effects. Nielsen 4 is also pretty dramatic - and I'd have said more effective than the 5th.

Push the envelopes if you wish, though then I suppose we'd have to allow Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique!

[Roehre]

Stockhausen: Schlagtrio für Klavier und 2 * 3 Pauken
Masson: Marimba concerto (1987)
Miki:Marimba concerto (1969)
Milhaud: Concerto for marimba, vibrafone and orchestra op.278 (1947)
Ptaszynska: Marimba concerto (1985)

[Roehre]

.... Other Shostakovich symphonies also demonstrate percussive effects...

No.15 e.g., or the timpani solo in no.1's finale