Feller / Weiss / Tendler / Evans - Ross Feller: X/Winds - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Music for Oboe and String Orchestra (1933) 2. Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello (1933) 3. Concertino for Oboe and Five Strings (1932) 4. Wind Quintet (1940)

The MIT Wind and Festival Jazz Ensembles' recording Infinite Winds presents a wonderfully broad range of musical styles from composers who have surpassed the limits of jazz and modern classical composing. The pieces by Klein, Corea and Byron differ greatly but are performed skillfully by the two ensembles, highlighting all their nuances and dynamic vitality.On their new and musically diverse Infinite Winds, the MIT Wind Ensemble and the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble present three long form compositions by three innovative and highly regarded composers Guillermo Klein, Chick Corea and Don Byron. The Corea and Byron pieces are world première recordings on this Sunnyside . Klein's Solar Return Suite and Byron's Concerto For Clarinet and Wind Ensemble feature special guest soloists, saxophonist Bill McHenry and clarinetist Evan Ziporyn, respectively. Album Tracks 1. Guillermo Klein - Solar Return Suite - Terrenal 01 32 2. Guillermo Klein - Solar Return Suite - Pulmón 3. Guillermo Klein - Solar Return Suite - Cátaros 4. Guillermo Klein - Solar Return Suite - Between 5. Guillermo Klein - Solar Return Suite - Platense 6. Guillermo Klein - Solar Return Suite - Camello 7. Guillermo Klein - Solar Return Suite - (Gracias Que Hay Viento) Solar Return 8. Chick Corea - from Forever (Suite for Big Band Dedicated to Herb Pomeroy) 16 15 9. Don Byron - Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble - Tarantella 10. Don Byron - Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble - Ballade 11. Don Byron - Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble - Fast Stuff 04 07

CRASH! And BANG! And BOOM-BOOM-BOOM! Noise levels rise when four very-very-very special people get together to party. Gordon Kampe has illustrated Brigitte Werner's bestselling picture book WUM und BUM und die Damen DING DONG with the sound of music, and the interpretive contributions by the fabulous Sunnyi Melles and the spirited and vibrant Beethoven Orchestra of Bonn under the conductor Dirk Kaftan create magnificent, top-quality fun for young and old alike! The instrumentation of Kampe's score is highly original pot lids and pieces of fabric, boxes and bottles, tin cans and balloons, and even a tuneful saw are deployed - a challenge not only for the two percussionists, whose arms and hands are kept more than busy. When the corks pop at the end, the entire orchestra is invited to join in the fun - with plenty of pep and pizzazz! However, before the two ladies scuffle with the two gentlemen, each of the four gets a chance to show her or his stuff. Mr. WUM raises a racket in his house, Mr. BUM turns his march music up to the decibel max, Ms. DING crams her hoard of cartons into the garbage dumpster, and Ms. DONG warbles her ditties from morning to night. Kampe characterizes his gang of four with plenty of respect and love for these protagonists, along with allusions from music history guaranteed to tickle our ears. Sunnyi Melles lends the characters dazzling appeal. Her fascinatingly versatile voice enables her to bring the picture-book heroes and heroines to life, each in her or his own way - and let's not forget the InchFly Poop at Four-Thirty.Inch From InchLascivious but youthfully freeInch to InchTearily operatic,Inch from InchSuper-marvelousInch to InchIndignation meets Bummsfallera,Inch Melles in her speaking role and the orchestra quite evidently very much enjoy performing Kampe's score, to the delight of the many young participants from Bonn grade schools an