Percussion Ensemble JAMU perform Cloud Folk in Prague

Percussion Ensemble JAMU

For this performance, the Percussion Ensemble of the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts in Brno and its Artistic Director Martin Opršál present a variety of works for percussion instruments at the Suk Hall. In Bartók’s Allegro barboro, pianist Dominik Gál will show how the composer also regarded the piano a percussion instrument.

Program:

• Béla Bartók (arr. Martin Opršál)
  Allegro barbaro
• Per Nørgård
  I Ching
  No. 3. The Gentle, the Penetrating (hexagram no. 57)            
• Jan Novák
  Toccata chromatica                            
• John Cage (arr. Martin Opršál)
  In a Landscape                    
• Nicolas Martynciow
  Sweet Swaff                        
• Javier Alvarez
  Temazcal                            
• Mark Berry
  Mare tranquilitatis                            
• John Psathas
  Cloud Folk    

Performing:

Percussion Ensemble JAMU
Martin Opršál - artistic director

Dominik Gál - piano

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