Bells for Stokowski
$11.98 – $16.98
Jerry Junkin
University of Texas Wind Ensemble
Nine delightful Renaissance dances by Tielman Susato start this program with a bang. The ever-popular English Folksong Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams in its original scoring continues the crowd-pleasing mood. Two important new works follow. David Del Tredici’s first composition for wind band, In Wartime, is based on the popular hymn “Abide With Me” and the Persian national anthem. Michael Daugherty is one of the most performed and commissioned American composers of his generation. Bells for Stokowski is a fantasy in which the composer imagines Leopold Stokowski in Philadelphia, hearing all the bells of the city resonate. It’s a sonic spectacular, captured to perfection by “Prof.” Johnson in his most dazzling HDCD sound.
On This Recording
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SUSATO: Danserye:
- I. La Morisque
- II. Bergerette
- III. Les quartre Branles
- IV. Fagot
- V. Den hoboecken dans
- VI. Ronde & Salterelle
- VII. Ronde & Aliud
- VIII. Basse danse. Mon désire
- IX. Pavane. La Battaille VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: English Folk Song Suite
- I. March. Seventeen Come Sunday
- III. Intermezzo. My Bonny Boy
- IV. March. Folk Songs from Somerset DEL TREDICI: In Wartime
- I. Hymn
- II. Battlemarch
- DAUGHERTY: Bells for Stokowski
Reviews:
“the skilled and enthusiastic playing of the young performers leaps off the disc…they make a glorious noise.” —The New York Times
