Rutgers Wind Ensemble, William Berz - Wind Band Classics - Fanfares and Overtures (2009)

Tracklist

01. Overture 1940 (Arr. W. Berz)
02. Smetana Fanfare
03. Libuse: Fanfares
04. Fanfare for Remembrance
05. Music for Prague 1968: I. Introduction and Fanfare
06. Music for Prague 1968: II. Aria
07. Music for Prague 1968: III. Interlude
08. Music for Prague 1968: IV. Toccata and Chorale
09. Renascence
10. George Washington Bridge

‘Fanfares and Overtures’ aptly conveys the spirit of this wide-ranging album which marks the début on Naxos’s popular Wind Band Classics range of the Rutgers Wind Ensemble.

Hailed by one critic as “the Rolls Royce of wind ensembles”, it here presents music whose haunting moods, contrasting compositional styles and sophisticated characters call forth both the ‘sweet, sighing sonorities’ and ‘impressive unanimity and sheer technique’ for which the Ensemble is renowned.

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