»We percussionists simply have this spirit of discovery,« says young percussionist Vivi Vassileva about herself and her percussion community. »We love discovering and combining new instruments, new sounds.« What she means by this is demonstrated in the piece »Frozen in Time« by Avner Dorman, which the Israeli composer once wrote for Vassileva’s teacher Martin Grubinger. Besides countless drums, cymbals and barred percussion instruments, such as the wooden marimbaphone, the metal vibraphone or the glockenspiel, instruments used here include the African djembe, the Arabic darbuka and several cencerros – a type of »tuned cowbells« – which can even be played as a melody instrument.
PERFORMERS
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie orchestra
Vivi Vassileva percussion
Stanislav Kochanovsky conductor
PROGRAM
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Oktjabr’ (Oktober) op. 131
Avner Dorman
Frozen in Time
- Interval -
Dmitri Schostakowitsch
Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 »The Year 1905«
