Sound the Bells! American Premières for Brass / The Bay Brass

Sound the Bells! American Premières for Brass / The Bay Brass - Harmonia Mu

Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalog No: HAR 807556
Format: CD
Release Date: 2011-03-08
Number of Discs: 1
Running time: 1 hr. 3 min.
Mono/Stereo: Mixed
UPC Code: 093046755669

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Notes & Reviews:

San Francisco-based ensemble The Bay Brass presents a showcase of American music both rousing and moving with these first recordings of recent works by John Williams, Michael Tilson Thomas, Morten Lauridsen and others. The Bay Brass was founded in 1995 and is composed of brass players from the San Francisco Bay Area’s leading performing organizations, including the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. The group prides itself on the diversity of its programming, combining the traditional brass repertory with jazz and other contemporary styles and featuring a mix of large-scale symphonic brass ensemble works and compositions for smaller combinations of players. The album’s recording engineer is Sean Murphy, an Oscar and Emmy award winning mixer/engineer who has worked on hit films such as Saving Private Ryan, Titanic, The Green Hornet and many others.

"whatever the demands of the music, technical or stylistic, the group meets them with confidence and accuracy...we are in the presence of a polished ensemble that can get your blood racing. Still, in the end what's most striking is their ability to produce such limpid beauty of tone...In sum, a delectable collection, worth hearing even if (or especially if) you don't usually take to brass repertoire." -International Record Review



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>Williams, John : Sound the Bells!, fanfare for brass & percussion (or orchestra)
  • Performers: Arthur Storch (Percussion); Doug Rioth (Harp); Douglas Hull (Horn); Ray Froelich (Percussion); Thomas Hemphill (Percussion); Marc Shapiro (Piano); David Herbert (Percussion); Victor Avdienko (Percussion); James Wyatt (Percussion); Jeff Biancalana (Trumpet)
  • Conductor: Alastair Neale
  • Running Time: 2 min. 2 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary
  • Written: 05/1993

>Williams, John : Fanfare for a Festive Occasion, for brass & percussion
  • Performers: Jeff Biancalana (Trumpet); Thomas Hemphill (Percussion); Ray Froelich (Percussion); David Herbert (Percussion); James Wyatt (Percussion); Victor Avdienko (Percussion)
  • Conductor: Alastair Neale
  • Running Time: 3 min. sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary
  • Written: 1980

>Williams, John : Aloft! To the Royal Masthead! for brass & percussion
  • Performers: Kale Cummings (Trumpet); Mark Inouye (Trumpet); Jeff Biancalana (Trumpet); John King (Trumpet)
  • Conductor: Alastair Neale
  • Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary
  • Written: 1992

>Thomas, Michael Tilson : Street Song for brass
  • Performer: Christopher Cooper (Horn)
  • Conductor: Michael Thomas
  • Running Time: 4 min. 17 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary

>Lauridsen, Morten : Fanfare for brass sextet
  • Conductor: Robert Ward
  • Running Time: 1 min. 15 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary
  • Written: 2003

>Lauridsen, Morten : O magnum mysterium
  • Performer: Jessica Valeri (Horn)
  • Conductor: Jeffrey Budin
  • Running Time: 6 min. 36 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary
  • Written: 1994

>Broughton, Bruce : Fanfares, Marches, Hymns & Finale, for brass & percussion
  • Performers: Ray Froelich (Percussion); James Wyatt (Percussion); David Herbert (Percussion); Jeff Biancalana (Trumpet)
  • Conductor: Bruce Broughton
  • Running Time: 19 min. 38 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary
  • Written: 2002

>Puts, Kevin : Elegy for brass
  • Performer: Jessica Valeri (Horn)
  • Conductor: Paul Welcomer
  • Running Time: 4 min. 9 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary
  • Written: 2009

>Hiltzik, Scott : Spirals, for brass & percussion
  • Performers: James Wyatt (Percussion); Jessica Valeri (Horn); Ray Froelich (Percussion); David Herbert (Percussion)
  • Conductor: Charles Floyd
  • Running Time: 5 min. 37 sec.
  • Period Time: Contemporary
  • Written: 2005