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“Perryman is a musician, who creates music with his paintbrush”

 
  - violinist Yehudi Menuhin  
     
 
 
   
     
 

John AdamsEl Dorado. 30 mins.  (Brussels Philharmonic)

John Adams: The Wound Dresser. 20 mins. (Holland Symfonia & baritone David Wilson Johnson).

Benjamin Britten: Four Sea Interludes.15 mins.

Claude Debussy: Prélude de l’après-midi d’un faune (Czech National Orchestra)

Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations. 30 mins. (Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra 2012).

Gustav Holst: The Planets. 50 mins. (National Orchestra of Belgium).

Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - orchestration by Ravel. 30 mins. (with Simon Rattle and the CBSO for BBC Television. Arnhem Philharmonic).

Alexander Scriabin: Prometheus – Le Poème du Feu. 20 mins. National Orchestra of Belgium (2013).

Alexander Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy. 20 mins. (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra).

Toru Takemitsu: From me flows what you call Time - for five percussionists and orchestra. 30 mins. (Rotterdam Philharmonic)

Augusta Read Thomas: Terpsichore’s Dream. 17mins

 
   
   
     
 

Tan Dun: Crouching Tiger Concerto. 30 mins. For solo cello and chamber orchestra + persussion. (Great Mountains Music Festival, South Korea).

Sofia Gubaidulina: Garden of Joys and Sorrows. 15 mins. Flute, viola, harp, speaker. Vredenburg Leeuwenburgh.

Bohuslav Martinu: Nonet.  For wind quintet, violin, viola, cello, bass. 16 mins.

Miloslav Kabeláč: Eight Inventions for Percussion, 24 mins. For full percussion ensemble (Circle Percussion and Netherlands Dance Theatre).

Huang Ruo : Confluences –Concerto No.4 for 15 players and kinetic painting. 16 mins. (ASKO Ensemble and Ilan Volkov).

Camille Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals, for chamber orchestra and two pianos. 30 mins. (Greenwich Festival Orchestra)

Igor Stravinsky: The Soldier’s Tale/l’Histoire de Soldat. 60 mins. For seven instruments, narrator and/or two actors. (Netherlands Chamber Orchestra & Gordan Nikolic)

Toru Takemitsu: Three Film Scores, 15 mins. For string ensemble. (Sejong Soloists)

Augusta Read Thomas: Murmurs in the Mist of Memory, for string ensemble. 16 mins. (Sejong Soloists).

Antoinio Vivaldi: Four Seasons. 40 mins. (with Yehudi Menuhin, for French Television, 1979); and with Charles Hazlewood/Alexander Sitkovetsky in Play the Field Festival, 2009).

 
   
   
     
 

John Adams: Hallelujah Junction, for two pianos, 30 mins. (Steve Beck and Andrew Armstrong, Greenwich Festival)

Huang Ruo: Tree without Wind; for piano solo. 10 mins.

Huang Ruo/Norman Perryman: Written on the Wind. 14 mins. For pipa, vocals and kinetic painting. (Min-Xiao Fen, New York and Purchase).

Gertrude Stein: Dr. Faustus lights the Lights. 135mins. (music - Guus Janssen, Dutch translation - Friso Haverkamp) – chamber opera in three acts. Amsterdam première.

Solo percussion program (with Evelyn Glennie) Works by Zivkovic, Keiko Abe, Masson, Schwantner, Horne, Miki, Glennie) full evening interspersed with pieces without visuals.

Japanese percussion program (with Circle Percussion) including Harumi, Yatai-Bayashi, Miyake, Marimba Spiritual, etc. all played on Japanese drums (Kodo style) - half an evening.

Occupied City with Flemish Radio Choir.  Full evening program with Barber, Bo Holten, van Hove, Mauersberger, Schoenberg, and poems by Paul van Ostaijen, for Belgian/Dutch tour.

An evening of improvised visuals to the music of the Chinese trio MIN/WU/XU: Min Xiao-Fen (pipa and vocals; Wu Wei (sheng, erhu and vocals; Xu Fengxia (zheng and vocals).

 
   
   
     
 

George Benjamin: Fantasy on Iambic Rhythm. 12 mins. Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Aldeburgh Festival 2012).

Franz Liszt: La Lugubre Gondola II. 6.30 mins.

Tristan Murail: Cloche d'adieu...et un sourire. In memoriam Olivier Messiaen. (4:15)

Modest Mussorgsky
: Pictures at an Exhibition (solo piano version), 30 mins. (Julien Quentin, Switzerland).

Alexander Scriabin: Sonata No.9 op. 68 'Black Mass'. (8 min.)

 
   
 
Works appropriate for visuals, which I would like to perform
 
     
 

Béla Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra: 32 mins. Full orchestra.

Erik Satie: Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, Nocturnes, for piano solo (or orchestration).

Huang Ruo: Concerto Cycle. Chamber ensemble.

György Kurtág: The Kafka Fragments (for solo violin and soprano) 60mins.

Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, 30 mins, for full orchestra.

Augusta Read Thomas: Helios Choros (Sun God Dancers) – trilogy for full orchestra. 36 mins.

Tan Dun: Ghost Opera. 41 mins. (for string quartet, pipa and percussion).

George Benjamin: At First Light. 20 mins. (for chamber ensemble).

Olivier Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du Temps. 52 mins. Piano, violin, clarinet, cello.

Eric Whitacre: Choral works.



 
     
     
     
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