Released on Signum Records on 27 September 2019, Gabriel Prokofiev’s latest album ‘Saxophone Concerto / Bass Drum Concerto’ (SIGCD584) features Branford Marsalis (saxophone), Joby Burgess (Bass Drum) with the Ural Philharmonic and Alexei Bogorad (conductor).
“with percussionist extraordinaire Joby Burgess … thunder and menace are offset by taps, rattles and delicate whispers redolent of an entire percussion section. It shouldn’t need saying that the bass drum is a multifaceted instrument capable of great subtlety, and Prokofiev and Burgess prove it.”
BBC Music Magazine
“one of the best concertos written this century … Joby Burgess has made the Bass Drum Concerto his own, and the Ural Philharmonic under Alexei Bogorad clearly respond to the percussionists’s virtuoso treatment of an instrument that resided in the lower reaches of the orchestral hierarchy for far too long.”
Gramophone