Review: Dame Evelyn Glennie's impressively offbeat evening
The City Chamber Orchestra's four-item programme - by turns pastiche, inventive, cerebral and jocular - featured the celebrated percussionist Evelyn Glennie in the first two works, concertos written for her which she premiered in 2004.
The City Chamber Orchestra's four-item programme - by turns pastiche, inventive, cerebral and jocular - featured the celebrated percussionist Evelyn Glennie in the first two works, concertos written for her which she premiered in 2004.
La Folia is an old Portuguese tune that has inspired many composers to write variations, including Mozart's rival Antonio Salieri and, more famously, the 17th century violinist Arcangelo Corelli.
Karl Jenkins' La Folia for Marimba and Strings, written in 2004, takes off from where Corelli ended in a purportedly "offbeat arrangement", though there's no attempt to gently grind the baroque-style string accompaniment against the contemporary solo sound. It meanders amiably for about 10 minutes before wandering off.