The British brass septet Septura, who have occasionally been confused with the metal band Sepultura, diverge from the usual brass ensemble repertory and in fact seem to have the goal of expanding it. Their arrangements have focused heavily on keyboard music, and on this third volume in their Naxos label series all the music except for one piece, the arrangement of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110, has a keyboard piece as its source. (The march from Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges is drawn on ...
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The British brass septet Septura, who have occasionally been confused with the metal band Sepultura, diverge from the usual brass ensemble repertory and in fact seem to have the goal of expanding it. Their arrangements have focused heavily on keyboard music, and on this third volume in their Naxos label series all the music except for one piece, the arrangement of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110, has a keyboard piece as its source. (The march from Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges is drawn on the composer's piano arrangement of that familiar piece, and it provides a delightful entr'acte between the weightier works at either end of the program.) One might reasonably ask why Scriabin's Preludes needed to be arranged for brass septet, yet the project works well more often than not. What happens in Septura's capable hands is that the music is reinterpreted in delightful ways. The most unexpected examples come in the Shostakovich (sample the "Largo" finale, track five), where...
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