Michael Pugliese - Percussion - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Michael Compitello's InchUnsnared DrumInch reframes how people think about, perform, and practice the snare drum, freeing the drum from it's historical and idiomatic chains. It asks whether the snare drum can be bold, coy, suave, and elegant in short, interesting. The album features works written in close collaboration with Compitello by Nina C. Young, Hannah Lash, Amy Beth Kirsten, and Tonia Ko; surprising and inventive new works for solo snare drum. The result is a collection of pieces which highlight the snare drum's breadth of sonic possibility and depth of expressivity, revealing an instrument of drama, grace, and heart.

Various Artists - Percussion Around World [COMPACT DISCS] date 03/01/2015

These six world premiere recordings present one of percussion's greatest masters in a panorama of works by leading composers of our time. This remarkable journey through sound and rhythm includes electronics such as the dramatically funky climaxes to Bruno Mantovani's Le Grand Jeu, a dreamy musical halo around metal instruments in Marco Stroppa's Auras and Jean-Claude Risset's sound illusions in Nature contre Nature. Peter Eotvos's Thunder is a unique quest to explore the potential of a single bass timpani, while Philippe Hersant revisits Berlioz, Schuber and Gounod in his Trois petites etudes. Rene Leibowitz's Three Caprices were among the first works written for solo vibraphone.