The music on this Naxos release isn't exactly music for wind ensemble by Camille Saint-Saëns, who wrote none, although he did compose a good deal of wind chamber music. Instead, it consists of Saint-Saëns hits and a few more unusual items arranged for wind band. The arrangements are contemporary, and it might have been nice to hear a bit more about the arrangers here. However, the wind band in England in the 19th and early 20th centuries was an important medium through which listeners encountered concert music, and the ...
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The music on this Naxos release isn't exactly music for wind ensemble by Camille Saint-Saëns, who wrote none, although he did compose a good deal of wind chamber music. Instead, it consists of Saint-Saëns hits and a few more unusual items arranged for wind band. The arrangements are contemporary, and it might have been nice to hear a bit more about the arrangers here. However, the wind band in England in the 19th and early 20th centuries was an important medium through which listeners encountered concert music, and the Royal Air Force College Band is following a long tradition. It's not much of a stretch to imagine the composer's audiences hearing his music this way. The arrangements are clever -- Listen to the familiar lions from The Carnival of the Animals -- and the pieces do a good job of representing the referential range of Saint-Saëns' music, which composers of film music drew upon for much of the 20th century. Consider the excerpt from the opera Henry VIII at the end, for which Saint-Saëns...
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