Bartje Bartmans | Richard Rodney Bennett - Marimba Concerto (1988) @bartjebartmans | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett CBE (29 March 1936 – 24 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.
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Marimba Concerto (1988)
I. Con moto (0:00)
II. Con brio (9:44)
Colin Currie, marimba and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Wilson
Richard Rodney Bennett’s Concerto for Marimba and Chamber Orchestra was commissioned by William Moersch and New Music Marimba and was first performed on 11 March 1988 by the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra with William Moersch as soloist in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
The piece is comprised of two movements. The slower, opening movement is impressionistic and crystalline with the marimba serving as an obligate over the orchestral harmonies. Only in the two cadenzas does the marimba texture thicken, reminiscent of Bennett's earlier writing for solo marimba.
The driving second movement features a molto ritmico theme for the marimba which is punctuated by the orchestra. The movement builds to a fiendishly difficult in temp cadenza where the marimba, in effect, becomes the entire orchestra. A brief echo of the first movement is heard which leads to the dramatic close of the piece.
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett CBE (29 March 1936 – 24 December 2012) was an English composer of film, TV and concert music, and also a jazz pianist and occasional vocalist. He was based in New York City from 1979 until his death there in 2012.
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Marimba Concerto (1988)
I. Con moto (0:00)
II. Con brio (9:44)
Colin Currie, marimba and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Wilson
Richard Rodney Bennett’s Concerto for Marimba and Chamber Orchestra was commissioned by William Moersch and New Music Marimba and was first performed on 11 March 1988 by the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra with William Moersch as soloist in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
The piece is comprised of two movements. The slower, opening movement is impressionistic and crystalline with the marimba serving as an obligate over the orchestral harmonies. Only in the two cadenzas does the marimba texture thicken, reminiscent of Bennett's earlier writing for solo marimba.
The driving second movement features a molto ritmico theme for the marimba which is punctuated by the orchestra. The movement builds to a fiendishly difficult in temp cadenza where the marimba, in effect, becomes the entire orchestra. A brief echo of the first movement is heard which leads to the dramatic close of the piece.
