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Wine Dark Sea

  • Wine Dark Sea

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Catalog No: RR-137
Artists: Jerry Junkin, Nathan Williams, University of Texas Wind Ensemble
Composers: Dan Welcher, Donald Grantham, Frank Ticheli, John Mackey
Release Year: 2016-04-10
Available Formats: HDCD
UPC/EAN: 30911113728
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Jerry Junkin, conductor

The University of Texas Wind Ensemble

Nathan Williams

The University of Texas Wind Ensemble has firmly established itself as one of America's elite wind bands

Active in the area of commissioning new music since 1988, the group has offered world premiere performances of works by many composers including John Corigliano, Michael Daugherty, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, and Dan Welcher. One of the guiding principles of the ensemble is contact with the leading musical minds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

JERRY JUNKIN conducts The University of Texas Wind Ensemble, and is also the Artistic Director and Conductor of The Dallas Winds, and Music Director and Conductor of the Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia. Reference Recordings is proud to have released 9 albums conducted by Jerry Junkin.

Four outstanding wind band composers are represented on this album. The title piece by JOHN MACKEY, Wine Dark Sea, is the world premiere recording of this important new work. Commissioned by the UTWE for the 100th Anniversary of The Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, it has been performed in front of ecstatic audiences and received raves around the world. Reference Recordings is proud to present it alongside important works by DAN WELCHER, DONALD GRANTHAM, and FRANK TICHELI. This is contemporary wind band music at its best, in extraordinary performances.

The repertoire on this new album was performed internationally by the UTWE on their 25 Day Around–the–World Tour in Summer 2014, then recorded in September 2014 by Reference Recordings’ GRAMMY®–award winning engineer Keith Johnson at Bates Recital Hall, The University of Texas.

On This Recording

    Dan Welcher
  1. Spumante
  2. Donald Grantham
  3. Jai été bal
  4. Frank Ticheli: Concerto for Clarinet
  5. Rhapsody for George
  6. Song for Aaron
  7. Riffs for Lenny
  8. John Mackey — Wine Dark Sea: Symphony for Band
  9. Hubris
  10. Immortal Thread, So Weak
  11. The Attentions of Souls

Reviews:

“The music’s panoply of colours and rhythms is superbly caught; even more astounding is the virtuosity of this band, whose stylish playing would put many a professional to shame.… Music of variety and substance, stylishly played; another Rolls-Royce recording from Reference.” —Dan Morgan, MusicWeb International

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