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Dallas Wind Symphony Sampler

RR-909CD

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“The Dallas Wind Symphony is one of America's elite cultural institutions, up there with the Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.”
-Gene Gaudette.com


At last, a collection of the very best tracks from all Reference Recordings releases with The Dallas Wind Symphony, America's only full-time professional wind band!   All wind music enthusiasts need to have these knockout performances, conducted by the legendary Frederick Fennell, Jerry Junkin and Howard Dunn.

Recorded in the acclaimed acoustics of the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, the great music and spectacular sonics are perfectly captured by Reference Recording's world-renowned team of engineer Keith Johnson and producer Tam Henderson.   The Dallas Wind Symphony has recorded thirteen critically-acclaimed titles for Reference RecordingsR.

This first Dallas Wind Symphony Sampler, at a special price, is a collection of “primo” tracks, one from each program, that can serve as an introduction to the exciting world of the extensive wind-band repertoire, and as an audio spectacular to give the finest high-end audio systems a workout!


Conducted by HOWARD DUNN
  1. H. OWEN REED La Fiesta Mexicana
      Prelude and Aztec Dance     9:25
  2. GUSTAV HOLST Suite #2 in F
      excerpt     4:38

Conducted by FREDERICK FENNELL
  3. RUBIN GOLDMARK
      Rustic Wedding Symphony - Scherzo     4:18
  4. ISAAC ALBENIZ
      Feast-Day in Seville     8:39
  5. JAROMIR WEINBERGER Polka and Fugue
      from Schwanda the Bagpiper     7:48
  6. MORTON GOULD
      Pavanne     3:06
  7. LEON JESSEL
      Parade of the Wooden Soldiers     3:03
  8. MALCOLM ARNOLD
      Scottish Dance #3     4:16
  9. RON NELSON
      Rocky Point Holiday     5:00

Conducted by JERRY JUNKIN
10. JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
      Nobles of the Mystic Shrine     3:15
11. PAUL HINDEMITH
      Kammermusik #7-finale     6:17
12. PERCY GRAINGER
      Gumsuckers March     3:47
13. DAVID MASLANKA
      Symphony #4 - finale     8:05




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