JOHN MACKEY – DAN WELCHER
DONALD GRANTHAM – FRANK TICHELI
JERRY JUNKIN
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS WIND ENSEMBLE
NATHAN WILLIAMS, CLARINET
RR-137
[HDCD]
SAN FRANCISCO: Active in the area of commissioning new music since 1988, the group has offered world premiere performances of works by many composers including John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, and Dan Welcher. One of the guiding principles of the ensemble is contact with the leading musical minds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
JERRY JUNKIN conducts The Universiy of Texas Wind Ensemble, and is also the Artistic Director and Conductor of The Dallas Winds, and Music Director and Conductor of the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia. Reference Recordings is proud to have released 9 albums conducted by Jerry Junkin.
Four outstanding wind band composers are represented on this album. The title piece by JOHN MACKEY, Wine Dark Sea, is the world premiere recording of this important new work. Commissioned by the UTWE for the 100th Anniversary of The Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, it has been performed in front of ecstatic audiences and received raves around the world. Reference Recordings is proud to present it alongside important works by DAN WELCHER, DONALD GRANTHAM, and FRANK TICHELI. This is contemporary wind band music at its best, in extraordinary performances.
The repertoire on this new album was performed internationally by the UTWE on their 25 Day Around–the–World Tour in Summer 2014, then recorded in September 2014 by Reference Recordings' GRAMMY®–award winning engineer Keith Johnson at Bates Recital Hall, The University of Texas.
For 40 years, REFERENCE RECORDINGS has been one of the most innovative and respected independent labels in the music business. Reference Recordings releases have been highly praised for their dedication to high quality sound in the service of great music. Founder Tam Henderson (1998 GRAMMY® nominee for Producer of the Year), was joined in 1978 by engineer Keith O. Johnson. Some 140 projects later, Reference Recordings is still recording what many consider to be the finest-sounding classical, jazz and blues discs in the world.
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DAN WELCHER 1. Spumante 6:43 DONALD GRANTHAM 2. Jai été au bal 9:43 FRANK TICHELI - CONCERTO FOR CLARINET NATHAN WILLIAMS, CLARINET 3. Rhapsody for George 7:12 4. Song for Aaron 8:01 5. Riffs for Lenny 6:55 JOHN MACKEY - WINE DARK SEA: SYMPHONY FOR BAND (WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING) 6. Hubri S 10:50 7. Immortal Thread, So Weak 11:45 8. The Attention Of Souls 8:32 |
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