Here is a review from Tribune Magazine by Robert Giddings on WEBER: Overtures, SOUSA: Music for Wind Band, Vol. 3 and MASCAGNI, P.: Cavalleria Rusticana

… filmed live at Nero’s bath house in Naples, I realised I had forgotten what a fine and compact tragic opera Cavalleria Rusticana is…

As this new Naxos CD shows, Weber wrote beautiful music and was an especially influential composer. His operas are rarely performed here, partly because they’re overshadowed…

… but the real gem here is Sousa’s homage to the Strauss waltz, “Intaglio Waltzes”…

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An interview with Jose Serebrier about his new recording with “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band. Serebrier discusses the composers on this disc, including Bizet, Revueltas, Ginastera and Villa Lobos.

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