NAXOS WIND BAND

After the resounding success of their first volume of Catalan Wind Music, the Barcelona Symphonic Band and Salvador Brotons return with world premiere recordings of works commissioned from...

Orchestrations and originals from around the world, from Bach to Bernstein, as well as Alfred Reed's colourful Armenian Dances and Taiwanese composer Chia-Ying Chiang's mysterious and beautiful...

A disc of exciting wind band transcriptions from the award-winning University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble.1. Symphonic Suite from the Film on the Waterfront 2. Three Dance Episodes from on the...

Botti / Hartt Wind Ensemble / Adsit Raw Earth - New Music For Wind Band CD1. Deepening Fanfare - Canticle 2. Burlesque 3. Meditation 4. Celebration 5. Terra Cruda 6. Spinning Straw Into Gold 7. Night...

The acclaimed conductor and composer Salvador Brotons is renowned for his music for symphonic band. It was Rebroll (Rebirth), a symphonic poem in one movement inspired by contemporary events, which...

Bryant / Maslanka / Schwantner Alchemize CD1. I. Spiritoso E Energico 2. II. Misterioso - Jackie McIlwain/The University of Southern Mississippi Wind Ensemble 3. III. Grande E Con Forza 4. Quarter...

Award winning conductor and composer Johan de Meij's First Symphony 'The Lord of the Rings' is a spectacular evocation in five portraits and scenes based on Tolkien's tale of a grand quest and the...

The fifth Naxos recording of works by Kenneth Fuchs with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by JoAnn Falletta, won the Grammy Award in 2018 for Best Classical Compendium. This new album reveals...

Philip Glass' Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra, composed in 2000 and transcribed for wind ensemble by Mark Lortz in 2004, is a significant addition to the repertoire of large-scale...

Percy Grainger admired the expressive intensity of the wind band and considered it a more suitable medium for the transcription of early music- such as the Bach and Ferrabosco pieces heard here- than...

Grainger / Engeset Complete Music For Wind Band 1 CD1. Molly on the Shore 2. Bell Piece - Marius Roth Christensen/The Royal Norwegian Navy Band 3. Marching Song of Democracy 4. O Mensch, Bewein'...

The wind band offers considerable variety and color to composers, as demonstrated by these three disparate works. Jennifer Higdon's Soprano Saxophone Concerto brings to the instrument an unerring...