Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. What is a percussion instrument? Well, in the simplest terms it's something ...

The world of orchestral percussion unfolds like a secret chamber, bursting with textures that pulse beneath the harmonic fabric of symphonic works. At first glance, these instruments may seem like ...

IK Multimedia has announced a new Orchestral Percussion pack for Miroslav Philharmonik 2 and SampleTank 3. Following on from the successful Cinematic Percussion pack, IK Multimedia has once again ...

A high-energy celebration of polyphonic rhythms, Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra unifies four percussion batteries into one distinct voice: North Indian tabla, Afro Cuban bata, Brazilian samba and ...

Australia's oldest orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony, founded in 1906, brings high energy and finesse to these Bartók performances under the incisive baton of Edward Gardner. Music for Strings, ...

So often in an orchestra, percussion plays what seems like a secondary role. But this week at Severance Hall, that misconception will be clarified when the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz ...

This library takes percussion to a high ebb, through its solid capture of great playing and instruments, from one of the finest recording venues in the world. Relies on Spitfire’s own plugin, which ...

Marin Alsop has already recorded Bartók's two ballet scores, The Miraculous Mandarin and The Wooden Prince, as well as his only opera, Bluebeard's Castle, for Naxos, with the Bournemouth Symphony. But ...