Werner Thärichen, legendary timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwängler and Karajan, was also active as a conductor, author and composer. The best-known of his more than 70 works, doubtless, is his rousing Concerto for timpani and orchestra Op. 34. It was for his son Nicolai to whom he gave percussion lessons and who has meanwhile made a name for himself as a jazz pianist, composer and arranger, that Thärichen wrote the Percussion Concerto Op. 66 in 1988. The orchestral version was pe...