Ayanna Witter-Johnson, Gwilym Simcock, LSO Percussion Ensemble – Ocean Floor (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:04 minutes | 949 MB | Genre: Classical
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In 1781, the Zong – a British slave ship – left Ghana with twice the number it was designed to carry, bound for Jamaica. The ship’s owners claimed that drinking water was running low, and ordered the crew to throw more than 130 living enslaved people overboard.
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LSO Percussion Ensemble, Joseph Havlat and Philip Moore – John Adams: Roll Over Beethoven (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 22:13 minutes | 404 MB | Genre: Classical
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A duo of pianists from the London Symphony Orchestra’s percussion ensemble present the world premiere recording of Roll Over Beethoven by John Adams. Roll Over Beethoven pays homage to the electric vitality of Beethoven’s intensely physical, expressive world, and takes fragments from his Diabelli Variations and the Piano Sonata No. 31 Opus 110 and transforms them in the unique black box of Adams’ own musical language. In only twenty short minutes, Adams manages to generate an absorbing structure that, in his words, ‘takes these tiny musical fractals through a grand tour of a harmonic and rhythmic hall of mirrors.
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LSO Percussion Ensemble – Quartet Quintet (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:31 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Classical
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Distinguished orchestral players, the LSO Percussion Ensemble returns with a vibrant, jazz-infused album of music by Gwilym Simcock, Steve Reich, Chick Corea, Makoto Ozone & Joe Locke. Quartet Quintet centres around the world premiere of Quintet, a five-movement suite by the British pianist and composer Gwilym Simcock that pulls inspiration from seminal jazz fusion acts Steps Ahead, Yellowjackets and Weather Report, and Steve Reich’s 2013 Quartet for two vibes and two pianos. The album also includes new arrangements of classic pieces by jazz legends Chick Corea, Makoto Ozone and Joe Locke.
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