music of MALCOLM ARNOLD
The Dallas Wind Symphony Conducted by Jerry Junkin
RR-66CD
[HDCD]
First recordings of many works by the greatest living English composer!
The music of Sir Malcolm Arnold is known to far more people than recognize his name, through his award-winning scores for fearture films (The Bridge on the River Kwai, among dozens more).
Arnold is famous as one of the best tune-smiths of our time, and some of the reasons why are his immortal Scottish and English Dances. Arnold upholds the British heritage of virtuoso brass bands in his comic march The Padstow Lifeboat. Also included are his ceremonial marches for wind band, HRH The Duke of Cambridge and Overseas. The spooky dramatics of Tam O'Shanter have seldom been so explosive as in this preformance by the Dallas Wind Symphony and it's energetic new Music Director, Jerry Junkin.
Recorded by "Prof." Keith Johnson in the Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas, using the astounding new HDCD® process, Arnold for Band is an essential wind band release.
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1. - 4. Four Scottish Dances, op. 59 5. Overseas, op. 70 6. - 8. Little Suite #1, op. 80 9. Tam O'Shanter, op. 51 10 - 12. Water Music, op. 82 13. The Padstow Lifeboat, op. 94 14. - 16. Little Suite #2, op. 93 17. Fanfare for Louis, 1970 18. - 21. English Dances, Book I, op. 27 22. HRH The Duke of Cambridge, op. 60 Total Time: 66:24 |
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