Rolf Hind’s work for percussion, gamelan and piano evokes the hike to an eponymous Bhutanese cliffside monastery.
The piece is written for Javanese gamelan percussion orchestra, two prepared pianos and solo percussion including the canna sonora – a collection of nine-foot aluminium rods.
Colin Currie percussion
Rolf Hind piano
Zubin Kanga piano
Isabelle Carré gamelan soloist
Robert Campion gamelan soloist
Southbank Gamelan Players
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Commissioned by Southbank Centre and Cheltenham Festival with the support of the Britten-Pears Foundation.
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(P) 2019 BBC
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Catalogue number: NMC DL201912
Release Date: 29 November 2019