Solo Percussion

Matthew Hall - Choices
Instrumentation: Marimba (4.3 octave)
Duration: 6.5 minutes
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Choices, composed in 2006, received its premiere performance on 1st May 2007 at the Cardiff University Concert Hall. It was performed by Enrico Bertelli during a concert performance by the University's Contemporary Music Group. This contemporary marimba solo explores the full range of the instrument and the various techniques.

Price: £9.95

Ashley-John Long - Frames
Instrumentation: Marimba (5 octave)
Duration: 6.5 minutes

A contemporary work for unaccompanied marimba from young composer Ashley-John Long. Frames combines two distinctly different ideas, the first being fragmented phrases and the second being minimalism.

Price: £9.95

Jacob Wheeler - Elam Woc
Instrumentation: Solo Percussion (Bongos (pair), 3 Tom-toms)
Duration: 5.5 minutes
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A popular solo piece for unpitched percussion with CD backing track. Jacob Wheeler wrote Elam Woc for a friend's final recital at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2003 and it has grown to become a standard piece of solo repertoire for students and professionals alike.

Recorded by Dave Danford on the Alto Publications CD Rhythmic Renaissance.

Price: £14.95