Grainger / Carr - Complete Music for Wind Band 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Nai-Chung Kuan's Memory of Mountain, originally a banhu concerto and here recast for the violin, is inspired by the magnificent scenery and culture of Taiwan's Alishan mountains, and explores three scenic topics employing native instruments to great effect. Joel Hoffman's music draws from such diverse sources as Eastern European folk music and American bebop, remaining full of lyricism and rhythmic vitality. Nautilus Symmetry, his first work for full Chinese orchestra, and Violin Concerto No. 2 'Snow in Spring', display a love of plucked string instruments and traditional Chinese melodies expressed in a style that is recognizably his own. Cho-Liang Lin is an internationally renowned performer, a creator and curator of music festivals and a teacher. Recent concert engagements include numerous solo appearances worldwide with prestigious orchestras. An advocate of contemporary music, Lin has enjoyed collaborations and premieres with composers such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Joan Tower and John Williams. On this recording Lin plays the 1715 'Titian' Stradivarius and a 2000 Samuel Zygmuntowicz violin. Album Tracks 1. Memory of Mountain (1991, Version for Violin and Chinese Orchestra, Arr. 2016) 2. Nautilus Symmetry (2018) 3. Violin Concerto No. 2 InchSnow in SpringInch (2018)

Album Tracks 1. Molly on the Shore 2. Bell Piece - Marius Roth Christensen/The Royal Norwegian Navy Band 3. Marching Song of Democracy 4. O Mensch, Bewein' Dein' Sünde Groß 5. Let's Dance Gay in Green Meadow 6. Country Gardens 7. Six-Part Fantasy and Air No. 1 8. Hill-Song No. 2 9. Folk-Tune 10. Shepherd's Hey 11. Walking Tune 12. Spoon River 13. Down Longford Way 14. Tuscan Serenade - BJØRN Bogetvedt/The Royal Norwegian Navy Band 15. Chorale No. 2

The final volume of Percy Grainger's complete music for wind band once again respects his precise instrumental demands in pieces that span the breadth of his career, from his first large work in the genre, 'The Lads of Wamphray March,' to 'The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart,' his largest such work and one of his last. Also to be heard are 'A Lincolnshire Posy,' one of the genre's most famous and beautiful works; 'The Immovable Do,' which contains Inchthe most long-held pedal note in all musicInch; and the revolutionary 'Hill-Song No. 1,' which Grainger considered the greatest of all his compositions. All of the scores in this series follow, to the letter, Grainger's specific instructions as to the instrumentation. The Royal Norwegian Navy Band have starred for Naxos before, not least on some Sousa albums. Bjarte Engeset has been music director of the Tromso Symphony Orchestra and The Norwegian Wind Ensemble, artistic director of Northern Norway's Northern Lights Festival and Opera Nord, as well as permanent guest conductor of the Flemish Radio orchestra. His discography includes more than 30 best-selling recordings, including an eight-album set of Grieg's complete orchestral works on Naxos. Album Tracks 1. The Lads of Wamphray March 2. Angelus Ad Virginem 3. The Power of Rome and the Christian Heart - Hans Knut Sveen/Royal Norwegian Navy Band 4. The Nightingale and the Two Sisters - Hans Knut Sveen/Royal Norwegian Navy Band 5. The Immovable Do 6. Prelude in the Dorian Mode 7. Ye Banks and Braes O' Bonnie Doon 8. Dublin Bay (Lisbon) 9. Horkstow Grange 10. Rufford Park Poachers 11. The Brisk Young Sailor 12. Lord Melbourne 13. The Lost Lady Found 14. Ballade No. 17 15. 5-Part Fantasy No. 15 16. Hill-Song No. 1