The University of Texas Wind Ensemble
Jerry Junkin
RR-104CD
[HDCD]
Patrick Dunnigan's arrangement of nine delightful Renaissance dances by Susato starts this program with a bang. Long-time favorites of early-music groups, these toe-tappers bring smiles to all who hear them. The ever-popular “English Folk Song Suite” by England's Ralph Vaughan Williams (in its original scoring) continues the crowd-pleasing mood.
Two important new works follow. David Del Tredici's first piece for wind symphony, “In Wartime,” is in two connected movements: “Hymn,” based on the popular hymn “Abide With Me,” and “Battlemarch,” which features a mounting clash between Eastern and Western musical styles. It builds to a magnificent climax and a surprise ending.
Michael Daugherty is one of the most performed and commissioned American composers of his generation. His music is championed by David Zinman, Evelyn Glennie and Leonard Slatkin, among others. “Bells for Stokowski” is a fantasy in which the composer imagines Leopold Stokowski in Philadelphia visiting the Liberty Bell at sunrise, and listening to all the bells of the city resonate. It ends this inventive program with an even bigger bang than its beginning as the coda evokes the famous “Stokowski sound” in which the orchestral sound resembles that of a huge pipe organ.
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Tielman Susato Selections from “The Danserye” - premiere! arr. Patrick Dunnigan 1. La Morisque 2:07 2. Bergerette 2:27 3. Les quartre Branles 2:43 4. Fagot 0:52 5. Den hoboecken dans 1:59 6. Ronde & Salterelle 1:38 7. Ronde & Aliud 1:49 8. Basse danse: Mon desir 2:11 9. Pavane: La Battaille 4:57 Ralph Vaughan Williams English Folk Song Suite 10. March: Seventeen Come Sunday 3:23 11. Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy 4:19 12. March: Folk Songs from Somerset 3:48 David Del Tredici In Wartime - premiere! 13. Hymn 6:03 14. Battlemarch 12:19 Michael Daugherty 15. Bells for Stowkowski - premiere! 13:55 Total Program Length: 64:49 |
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