Mark Knopfler, Evelyn Glennie – Altamira (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Mark Knopfler, Evelyn Glennie – Altamira (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 26:00 minutes | 535 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI

2016 soundtrack score composed by ex-Dire Straits mainman, with percussionist Evelyn Glennie & others. Knopfler, who’s composed scores for “The Princess Bride” and “Wag the Dog”, now brings his unique sound to “Altamira”.

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Evelyn Glennie, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong & Jean Thorel – Alrich, Jenkins & Rorem: Mallet Concertos (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Evelyn Glennie, City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong & Jean Thorel – Alrich, Jenkins & Rorem: Mallet Concertos (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:58 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

This compilation of concertos for mallet instruments features percussion virtuoso Dame Evelyn Glennie and City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. Alexis Alrich’s Marimba Concerto, a rich amalgam of bold rhythms and exuberance, also explores Mexican and Asian-inspired music. Sir Karl Jenkins traces the 15th-century tune La Folia, furnishing it with refinement and strongly characterised intensity. Ned Rorem’s Mallet Concerto highlights the contrasting resonances of four different pitched mallets in music of drama and dynamism.

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Evelyn Glennie & Jon Hemmersam – Sound Spirits (2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Evelyn Glennie & Jon Hemmersam – Sound Spirits (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:26 minutes | 698 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Bowers & Wilkins

Awarded Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2007 Evelyn Glennie is the first person in musical history to successfully create and sustain a full-time career as a solo percussionist. As one of the most eclectic and innovative musicians on the scene today she is constantly redefining the goals and expectations of percussion by creating performances of such vitality they almost constitute a new type of performance. Evelyn is the leading commissioner of around 170 new works for solo percussion from many of the world’s most eminent composers. As a double Grammy award winner and BAFTA nominee Evelyn is in demand as a composer in her own right and records high quality music for film, television and music library companies. With over 86 international awards to date Evelyn continues to feed the next generation through advice and guidance.

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Evelyn Glennie – Joan Tower: Strike Zones, Small, Still/Rapids & Ivory and Ebony (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Evelyn Glennie – Joan Tower: Strike Zones, Small, Still/Rapids & Ivory and Ebony (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:13 minutes | 943 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos

Joan Tower is widely regarded as one of today’s most important American composers. The works heard here in their world premiere recordings are part of a growing legacy that one pundit has described as “The Power of Tower”.

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