Density512 - Rosner: Music for Symphonic Wind Band - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Arnold Rosner (1945-2013) was a New Yorker through and through, but his musical language reached across time and cultures, clothing the modal harmony and rhythm of pre-Baroque polyphony in rich Romantic colours, thus producing a style that is instantly recognisable and immediately appealing. Having written his Eighth Symphony for symphonic wind band, he took a liking to the idiom, composing seven more works for this archetypical formation of American university life, none of them recorded before now. Their inspiration is eclectic - they range from descriptive tone-poems via the recreation of an Indian raga and other folk-based pieces to more formal structures - but Rosner's unerring balance of dignity and energy is common to all of them and stamps them with a sound that is uniquely his. Album Tracks 1. Dances of Initiation, Op. 98~I. Maestoso 2. Dances of Initiation, Op. 98~II. Andante moderato 3. Dances of Initiation, Op. 98~III. Allegro 4. Eclipse, Op. 100 5. RAGA!, Op. 104 6. De Profundis, Op. 91 7. Now Cometh the Redeemer, Op. 119 8. Three Northern Sketches, Op. 117~No. 1. Ice Sculpture 9. Three Northern Sketches, Op. 117~No. 2. Pastorale 10. Three Northern Sketches, Op. 117~No. 3. Aurora 11. Lovely Joan Rhapsody on an English Folksong, Op. 88