Prelude from English Suite No. 2 BWV 807 for 2 Marimbas - 4'30 Min.; arranged by Tchiki Duos; 2 Mallets; advanced

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Adagio for Marimba Duo - 7'30 Min.; Movement from String Quartet op. 11 for 2 Marimbas, arranged by Nancy Zeltsman; all rolled, advanced

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Allegro Barbaro for 2 Marimbists on 1 Marimba - 3 Min.; arranged by Martin Oprsal; the two players face each other at one marimba; advanced

Mallets a la Zurke für Vibra & Marimba Duo - 2 Min.; Ragtime; schwer

Four mallet technique is required for both players in this four movement duet. The first movement is fairly quick with many time signature changes from triple to duple and back. The second movement is slower and set completely in 6/8. It has a lilting feel about it. The third movement is marked ìAlla breveî and is in 3/2 and 2/2. The final movement is very brisk with many time changes like the first movement. This is the most rhythmically challenging and exciting of the four movements.

INSTRUMENTATION
Marimba (4.3 octaves)
Vibraphone

The flight of the 2nd Bumblebee was written during several months' work on two larger orchestral pieces - a peripheral project that lent variation to my other writing. The piece was originally written for two pianos and takes its inspiration from Witold Lutosławski’s Paganini Variations, a highly original transformation of the 24th Caprice for solo violin by Niccolò Paganini. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the well-known Flight of the Bumblebee as part of his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, and I have taken the liberty to borrow the main theme from it - my sincere thanks and apologies to Rimsky-Korsakov! Following the presentation of the original and second themes, the development section witnesses the two engaging in intense battle! The piece is three minutes of busy, buzzing music, with the chromatic fragment of the original theme a constant presence.

I hope you enjoy playing it!

Patrick Raab, percussionist at the Royal Danish Orchestra

The second flight of the bumblebee is first of all a very funny to piece to perform. The mix of the original melody from Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov and the new theme composed by Broström, complement each other very well and the result speaks for it self.

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Bourree fantasque pour marimba duo - 7 Min.; arr. for 2 Marimbas and Vibraphone