Naxos Blog » Naxos Wind Band Classics http://blog.naxos.com Insights on music from the world's leading classical music label Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:43:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Podcast: Fanfares and Overtures with Rutgers Wind Ensemble http://blog.naxos.com/2009/09/22/podcast-fanfares-and-overtures-with-rutgers-wind-ensemble/ http://blog.naxos.com/2009/09/22/podcast-fanfares-and-overtures-with-rutgers-wind-ensemble/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:01 +0000 Raymond http://blog.naxos.com/?p=3821 REED, O., HUSA, K., NELHYBEL, V., SCHUMAN, W: Fanfares and Overtures album coverFanfares and Overtures, the first CD by the esteemed Rutgers Wind Ensemble on Naxos Wind Band Classics, presents a dizzying range of music that include either fanfares or overtures. The CD includes music by Herbert Owen Reed, Vaclav Nelhybel, WIlliam Schuman and Karel Husa whose “Music for Prague” may be one of the finest pieces of musical protest music ever written.

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Catalogue No.: Naxos 8.572230

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]]> http://blog.naxos.com/2009/09/22/podcast-fanfares-and-overtures-with-rutgers-wind-ensemble/feed/ Podcast: Trendsetters - Music for Wind Band by Hindemith, Holst, Grainger and Schwanter http://blog.naxos.com/2009/08/11/podcast-trendsetters-music-for-wind-band-by-hindemith-holst-grainger-and-schwanter/ http://blog.naxos.com/2009/08/11/podcast-trendsetters-music-for-wind-band-by-hindemith-holst-grainger-and-schwanter/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:00:30 +0000 Raymond http://blog.naxos.com/?p=3685 WIND BAND CLASSICS: Trendsetters albu / m coverTrendsetters may be the perfect introduction to 20th-century wind band music. It introduces four different composers, each with their own unique style. Percy Grainger’s Lincolnshire Posy, Gustav Holst’s First Suite in E flat for Military Band, Paul Hindemith’s Symphony in B flat, and Joseph Schwantner’s … and the mountains rising nowhere each offer a unique take on what the wind band can be.

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Catalogue No.: Naxos 8.572242

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]]> http://blog.naxos.com/2009/08/11/podcast-trendsetters-music-for-wind-band-by-hindemith-holst-grainger-and-schwanter/feed/ Podcast: John Lynch Talks Millenium Canons [Extra] http://blog.naxos.com/2009/06/22/podcast-john-lynch-talks-millenium-canons-extra/ http://blog.naxos.com/2009/06/22/podcast-john-lynch-talks-millenium-canons-extra/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:00:53 +0000 Raymond http://blog.naxos.com/?p=3231 PUTS, K. Millennium Canons album coverMillenium Canons, the new CD featuring the University of Georgia Wind Ensemble, features a wide range of contemporary American and British band music, including Millenium Canons by Kevin Puts.

In this podcast, conductor John Lynch talks about working with contemporary composers, and why he chose this music for his CD.

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Catalogue No.: Naxos 8.572231

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]]> http://blog.naxos.com/2009/06/22/podcast-john-lynch-talks-millenium-canons-extra/feed/ Podcast: Wild Nights! Exciting New Music for Wind Ensemble http://blog.naxos.com/2009/05/26/podcast-wild-nights-exciting-new-music-for-wind-ensemble/ http://blog.naxos.com/2009/05/26/podcast-wild-nights-exciting-new-music-for-wind-ensemble/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 16:00:46 +0000 Raymond http://blog.naxos.com/?p=2956 TICHELI, F.: Wild Nights album coverA podcast featuring the new University of Kansas Wind Ensemble CD, Wild Nights. This recording features five new band pieces, all written in the 21st century.

In this podcast conductor Scott Weiss talks about the music on this disc, and his ongoing commitment to creating new works for winds.

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Catalogue No.: Naxos 8.572129

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]]> http://blog.naxos.com/2009/05/26/podcast-wild-nights-exciting-new-music-for-wind-ensemble/feed/ Podcast: Passaggi Featuring The Hartt School Wind Ensemble http://blog.naxos.com/2009/03/03/podcast-passaggi-featuring-the-hartt-school-wind-ensemble/ http://blog.naxos.com/2009/03/03/podcast-passaggi-featuring-the-hartt-school-wind-ensemble/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:00:05 +0000 Raymond http://blog.naxos.com/?p=2381 Passaggi album coverA podcast featuring a new CD by The Hartt School Wind Ensemble under director Glen Adsit, along with soloists Ben Toth and Joe Alessi.

This CD features works by five contemporary American composers, including a work newly composed for this CD.

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Catalogue No.: Naxos 8.572109

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]]> http://blog.naxos.com/2009/03/03/podcast-passaggi-featuring-the-hartt-school-wind-ensemble/feed/ Podcast: Northern Winds with the Toronto Wind Orchestra http://blog.naxos.com/2009/01/20/podcast-northern-winds-with-the-toronto-wind-orchestra/ http://blog.naxos.com/2009/01/20/podcast-northern-winds-with-the-toronto-wind-orchestra/#comments Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:00:56 +0000 Raymond http://blog.naxos.com/?p=1985 Northern Winds album coverAn interview with Tony Gomes, Music Director of the Toronto Wind Orchestra as he talks about their new CD Northern Winds. Besides the ensemble, this recording features Wallace Halladay, solo saxophone, and Simon Docking.

The featured music includes works by Louis Applebaum, Michael Colgrass, Harry Freedman, Henry Kucharzyk, Gary Kulesha and Olivier Messiaen.

Note: the An interview with Per Norgard episode scheduled for this date will now be posted on February 17th.
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Catalogue No.: Naxos 8.572248

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]]> http://blog.naxos.com/2009/01/20/podcast-northern-winds-with-the-toronto-wind-orchestra/feed/ Barack Obama - Classical Music Lover / Extraordinaire http://blog.naxos.com/2009/01/17/barack-obama-classical-music-lover-extraordinaire/ http://blog.naxos.com/2009/01/17/barack-obama-classical-music-lover-extraordinaire/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:47:55 +0000 Randall http://www.musicalfoster.com/blog/2009/01/16/barack-obama-classical-music-lover-extraordinaire/ Ok, I am going to say it loud and proud. I VOTED FOR OBAMA! I have a number of reasons why I supported his campaign and most of which I will not share with you, but on the subject of the Arts, Arts in Education, and Music advocacy I am extremely outspoken!! I think this President and his administration is going to do great things for the Arts and below is just and example… just the start if you will. No matter what your political affiliations are, I think we can all agree that this will be a very cool musical collaboration…

If you read Variety (like I do- daily) you may or may have not seen this story, but at next week’s Inauguration, in the main entertainment slot, our incoming president is featuring the music of none other than John Williams! Performed by a quartet made up of Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Anthony McGill (a clarinetist from the Met), and Gabriela Montero (a Venezuelan pianist). The music to be performed will be a new setting and Williams-esque take on Simple Gifts, the same music used thematically throughout Appalachian Spring, written by Aaron Copland (one of Obama’s favorite composers).

This is important to me for a few reasons.

  1. This administration IS going to support the Arts! Many other presidents have had Classical music performed at their inauguration, but to my recollection, none have ever commissioned a new work for the occasion.
  2. Aaron Copland and John Williams happen to be two of my Top 5 American composers. This has little relevance on you, the reader, but warms my heart.
  3. As stated in the article, Copland’s work was supposed to be performed at another Presidential Inauguration. Dwight D Eisenhower was set to have “Lincoln Portrait” performed at his inauguration, but the performance was cancelled at the last minute as Copland was accused of being a communist by Senator Joe McCarthy. Finally Copland will get his just spotlight at these festivities. Even if it is only a piece paying tribute to him, I think it is a fitting tribute and an important moment for American Classical music.

On a side note, Lincoln Portrait is set to be released on Naxos Records twice in the next 6 months. Once in It’s original Orchestral Form performed by the Nashville Symphony under the baton of Leonard Slatkin (released in February 2009 Naxos 8.559373-74) and again as part of my Naxos Wind Band Classics series in it’s Concert Band setting performed by the fine University of Missouri Wind Ensemble conducted by Dr. Tom O’Neal and Narrated by Alvin Chea of “Take 6″ fame (released in May 2009 Naxos Wind Band Classics 8.572108)

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