Percussionist Anthony di Sanza's CD On the Nature of... features three substantial solos works and a concerto. The first three pieces date from the 1980s and are established as classics the modern percussion repertoire. Toshi Ichiyanagi's Portrait of Forest and Jacob Druckman's Reflections on the Nature of Water, both scored for marimba solo, are sophisticated and imaginative evocations of the natural world. Per Nørgärd's I Ching, in contrast, is scored for what di Sanza describes as "a stage full of percussion instruments ...
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Percussionist Anthony di Sanza's CD On the Nature of... features three substantial solos works and a concerto. The first three pieces date from the 1980s and are established as classics the modern percussion repertoire. Toshi Ichiyanagi's Portrait of Forest and Jacob Druckman's Reflections on the Nature of Water, both scored for marimba solo, are sophisticated and imaginative evocations of the natural world. Per Nørgärd's I Ching, in contrast, is scored for what di Sanza describes as "a stage full of percussion instruments drawn from various world cultures." It's a piece that's overwhelming in the impact it makes both in the economy of its gestures and material (movement three, "The Gentle, the Penetrating") and in its dazzling timbral richness and variety (movement one, "Thunder Repeated: The Image of Shock," which sounds like it would take a stage full of percussionists to create such gigantic torrents of sound). It's a fully satisfying work; the sense of purposefulness and musical integrity that it...
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