Plainly intended as a showcase album, Bells for Stokowski may appeal more to band enthusiasts than to a wider audience. Jerry Junkin and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble maintain a high degree of polish and professionalism, and the clean HDCD recording serves them well. Even so, their program is tame and less than compelling, despite the performers' exceptional abilities. Patrick Dunnigan's festive arrangement of Tylman Susato's Dansereye opens the disc, and this setting of Renaissance dances is pleasant enough, if too ...
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Plainly intended as a showcase album, Bells for Stokowski may appeal more to band enthusiasts than to a wider audience. Jerry Junkin and the University of Texas Wind Ensemble maintain a high degree of polish and professionalism, and the clean HDCD recording serves them well. Even so, their program is tame and less than compelling, despite the performers' exceptional abilities. Patrick Dunnigan's festive arrangement of Tylman Susato's Dansereye opens the disc, and this setting of Renaissance dances is pleasant enough, if too consistently heavy on brass and percussion. Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite is a compact medley of sea shanties and marches, the most familiar work on the program and easy to absorb. More problematic is David del Tredici's In Wartime, an odd blending of martial clichés and irrelevant musical quotations. Unambiguously tonal but ambivalent in its programmatic allusions, this rumination on the war in Iraq is the least attractive piece for its musical jingoism. Michael...
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David Del Tredici; Michael Daugherty; Ralph Vaughan Williams; Tylman Susato. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
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