Her Greatest Hits

Evelyn Glennie (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 13, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003EU4
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,147 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Entrances

2. Halasana

3. Sorbet No. 1

4. Rhythm Song

5. My Spine - Björk, Evelyn Glennie

6. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

7. Sorbet No. 5

8. Little Prayer

9. Eldorado

10. Sorbet No. 7

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Sorbet No. 4

2. Light in Darkness

3. Anvil Chorus

4. Rhapsody

5. Swan

6. Sorbet No. 3

7. Concerto for Solo Percussion & Chamber Orchestra (First Movement)

8. Flight of the Bumblebee

9. Sorbet No. 6

10. Marimba Spiritual

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Flawless, November 10, 2003

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D. Fineman "[e-mail]" (L. A., CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Her Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

For technical mastery and seamless execution, Evelyn Glenie has no peer in percussion. Underappreciated is her tremendous athletic ability realized in an infinity of strokes without the performance decay that one would expect of merely human muscles.

While all the selections on these generous disks are worthy, their sequencing sometimes seems irrational: moods, styles, and genre are strangely mixed. Most of the recordings are excellent, but a few lack the finesse of tonality necessary to catch her subtle variations.

If possible, see her in person: she is also a great dramatist who understands silence as well as tone.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Knock-out CD !! Changes my concept of percussion --, October 11, 1998

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Forget that she's 90% deaf and can't make out tone. This gal's something like a Mozart, or a Bobby Fischer. Wonderful stuff !!

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Evelyn Glennie: Greatest Hits, February 3, 2000

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Adam Brown (Cincinnati, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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A great CD from an amazing percussionist. After listeing, it is easy to tell why she is looked up to by the percussion community. This is a great collection of her best playing.