Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This CD represents contemporary wind band literature. Karel Husa is the field’s king. For the first time in his 80-year history, someone has amassed a collection of this Wind Band Master’s music. This CD accentuates rarely recorded works of his Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble with Jonathan Sokasits, piano and Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble. This double CD displays Husa’s emotional title track Apotheosis of This Earth. Al Fresco, Divertimento for Brass and Percussion, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, Steven Mauk, saxophone, and Husa’s famous Smetana Fanfare ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This CD represents contemporary wind band literature. Karel Husa is the field’s king. For the first time in his 80-year history, someone has amassed a collection of this Wind Band Master’s music. This CD accentuates rarely recorded works of his Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble with Jonathan Sokasits, piano and Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble. This double CD displays Husa’s emotional title track Apotheosis of This Earth. Al Fresco, Divertimento for Brass and Percussion, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, Steven Mauk, saxophone, and Husa’s famous Smetana Fanfare ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This CD represents contemporary wind band literature. Karel Husa is the field’s king. For the first time in his 80-year history, someone has amassed a collection of this Wind Band Master’s music. This CD accentuates rarely recorded works of his Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble with Jonathan Sokasits, piano and Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble. This double CD displays Husa’s emotional title track Apotheosis of This Earth. Al Fresco, Divertimento for Brass and Percussion, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, Steven Mauk, saxophone, and Husa’s famous Smetana Fanfare ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This CD represents contemporary wind band literature. Karel Husa is the field’s king. For the first time in his 80-year history, someone has amassed a collection of this Wind Band Master’s music. This CD accentuates rarely recorded works of his Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble with Jonathan Sokasits, piano and Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble. This double CD displays Husa’s emotional title track Apotheosis of This Earth. Al Fresco, Divertimento for Brass and Percussion, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, Steven Mauk, saxophone, and Husa’s famous Smetana Fanfare ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This CD represents contemporary wind band literature. Karel Husa is the field’s king. For the first time in his 80-year history, someone has amassed a collection of this Wind Band Master’s music. This CD accentuates rarely recorded works of his Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble with Jonathan Sokasits, piano and Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble. This double CD displays Husa’s emotional title track Apotheosis of This Earth. Al Fresco, Divertimento for Brass and Percussion, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, Steven Mauk, saxophone, and Husa’s famous Smetana Fanfare ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This CD represents contemporary wind band literature. Karel Husa is the field’s king. For the first time in his 80-year history, someone has amassed a collection of this Wind Band Master’s music. This CD accentuates rarely recorded works of his Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble with Jonathan Sokasits, piano and Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble. This double CD displays Husa’s emotional title track Apotheosis of This Earth. Al Fresco, Divertimento for Brass and Percussion, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, Steven Mauk, saxophone, and Husa’s famous Smetana Fanfare ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This CD represents contemporary wind band literature. Karel Husa is the field’s king. For the first time in his 80-year history, someone has amassed a collection of this Wind Band Master’s music. This CD accentuates rarely recorded works of his Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble with Jonathan Sokasits, piano and Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble. This double CD displays Husa’s emotional title track Apotheosis of This Earth. Al Fresco, Divertimento for Brass and Percussion, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, Steven Mauk, saxophone, and Husa’s famous Smetana Fanfare ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:This CD represents contemporary wind band literature. Karel Husa is the field’s king. For the first time in his 80-year history, someone has amassed a collection of this Wind Band Master’s music. This CD accentuates rarely recorded works of his Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble with Jonathan Sokasits, piano and Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble. This double CD displays Husa’s emotional title track Apotheosis of This Earth. Al Fresco, Divertimento for Brass and Percussion, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, Steven Mauk, saxophone, and Husa’s famous Smetana Fanfare ...
Editorial Product Review: :Takemitsu (1930-96) is Japan's greatest composer. He had a diverse musical career, which included work for films. His music partakes of aspects of postmodernism--serial construction, atonal modalities, unusual instrumentation--and all of it hypnotic. The works on this disc are for a chamber-size orchestra and are illuminated by the smaller forces. From Me Flows What You Call Time (1990) brings to mind a set of delicate, atonal wind chimes. Twill by Twilight--In Memory of Morton Feldman (1988) reflects Feldman's juxtapositions and separations, but with a bit more color. Requiem (1957), Takemitsu's first orchestral ...