Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Grammy Award-winning composer Libby Larsen states about her Marimba Concerto:
"Marimba Concerto: After Hampton places instruments which were absent in baroque, classical and romantic orchestras in solo positions. The marimba is the principal solo instrument and the percussion gradually forms a concerto grosso ensemble, moving from the back of the orchestra to the front. In moving from back to front, the percussion joins the marimba in the principal role of the concerto voice and at the same time allows a kind of visual listening experience. The piece begins with the assumption that after the work of Lionel Hampton in the 1930's and 1940's, the mallet percussion instrument was established in our culture as a vehicle for principal musical material. The marimba and the orchestra explore the form of the concerto and challenge each other to rhythmic excursions."
COMPOSER: Libby Larsen
CONDUCTOR: Marin Alsop
MARIMBA: John Kinzie
ORCHESTRA: Colorado Symphony Orchestra
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - I. Allegro/Cross Rhythms/Relaxed/Allegro Assai/Pass the Plate
7:48 - II. Slowly, in Muted Colors
14:10 - III. Raucous/Full Turning/Allegro/Constant Billy: Setting the Beans/Finale
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Grammy Award-winning composer Libby Larsen states about her Marimba Concerto:
"Marimba Concerto: After Hampton places instruments which were absent in baroque, classical and romantic orchestras in solo positions. The marimba is the principal solo instrument and the percussion gradually forms a concerto grosso ensemble, moving from the back of the orchestra to the front. In moving from back to front, the percussion joins the marimba in the principal role of the concerto voice and at the same time allows a kind of visual listening experience. The piece begins with the assumption that after the work of Lionel Hampton in the 1930's and 1940's, the mallet percussion instrument was established in our culture as a vehicle for principal musical material. The marimba and the orchestra explore the form of the concerto and challenge each other to rhythmic excursions."
COMPOSER: Libby Larsen
CONDUCTOR: Marin Alsop
MARIMBA: John Kinzie
ORCHESTRA: Colorado Symphony Orchestra
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - I. Allegro/Cross Rhythms/Relaxed/Allegro Assai/Pass the Plate
7:48 - II. Slowly, in Muted Colors
14:10 - III. Raucous/Full Turning/Allegro/Constant Billy: Setting the Beans/Finale
Please be aware that all of the music (and images) featured in this video belong to their respective owners, and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. I upload these solely for archiving purposes, and for the sharing and enjoyment of great music. Monetization is not enabled. If you are the rightful owner of copyrighted material used and would like the video removed from YouTube, please, instead of reporting/striking my channel, leave a comment below with your statement and I will take the video down effective immediately.
![Nick Bentz — Glimpse (2019) [w/ score]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cGnjp68t0lk/mqdefault.jpg "Nick Bentz — Glimpse (2019) [w/ score]
Nick Bentz wrote about his chamber piece, Glimpse:
Glimpse is a piece that I wrote as I found myself fascinated at the way and speed at which our brains catalog information. The human brain is a complex machine that often works in ways that we’re unable to readily perceive – one of these subliminal processes being facial recognition. The brain constantly perceives and creates patterns among the faces that we encounter, even in passing, using information from all around us to infer how we might interact with one another. It’s through the repeating of similar stimuli that we’re able to quickly read emotions and situations in order to best ascertain how to act, or to unlock our own empathy towards each other. However, these same processes can yield implicit biases, shortchanging the very people we see. Glimpse is structured and derived from a five-pitch set which is constantly run through various processes. As these processes repeat, the material begins to ‘learn’ from bar-to-bar and gesture-to-gesture, playing with and sometimes against the very rules that it finds itself entrapped within.
COMPOSER: Nick Bentz
ENSEMBLE:
Melissa Lander, clarinet
Lauren Rausch, violin
Ismar Gomes, cello
Wan-Chi Su, piano
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![Andrew Rindfleisch — In the Zone (2009) [w/ score]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cHgp_TPMzUk/mqdefault.jpg "Andrew Rindfleisch — In the Zone (2009) [w/ score]
Andrew Rindfleisch writes in the program notes for his wonderful brass quintet, In the Zone:
In the Zone is a reverent nod to the popular instrumental form of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, the canzone. Often associated with the early precursors of modern brass instruments, the instrumental canzone was a form often dominated by contrapuntal and imitative textures. In The Zone is a two-movement work exploring those aspects of counterpoint, imitation, and polyphony so often found in those late-Renaissance forms — here intensified, transformed, and woven into a virtuoso vehicle for brass quintet. In The Zone is dedicated to the Meridian Arts Ensemble.
COMPOSER: Andrew Rindfleisch
BRASS QUINTET: Meridian Arts Ensemble
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - Introduction
0:12 - I. Introitus
2:24 - II. Canons
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