John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band Celebrate 150 Years

G.H. Willcocks (Composer), Carl Maria von Weber (Composer), Herman Koenig (Composer), Armas Jarnefelt (Composer), Gordon Langford (Composer), Antonin Dvorak (Composer), Joseph John Richards (Composer), Enrico Toselli (Composer), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Composer), John [British Composer] Ireland (Composer), Herman Bellstedt (Composer), Handel Parker (Composer), Jacques Offenbach (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: G.H. Willcocks, Carl Maria von Weber, Herman Koenig, Armas Jarnefelt, Gordon Langford, et al.
• Audio CD (August 11, 1993)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Chandos
• ASIN: B000000A77
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,765 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #23 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Brass > Trombone

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Genre: Jazz Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 1-JAN-1991

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5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging, September 11, 2008

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This review is from: John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band Celebrate 150 Years (Audio CD)

People familiar with American bands, like the Eastman Wind Ensemble, might be a little surprised by the sound of the Black Dyke Mills Band. It is much mellower than the American sound. The richness of tone is beautifully captured by Chandos's engineers, at the peak of their form. The Band features superb soloists, especially the cornet and horn soloists, the latter being heard in his own arrangement of a work based on The Carnival of Venice. The works on this CD all are linked in some way to the history of the Band. There are stunning arrangements of the final movement of the New World Symphony and of Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of the Tumblers. You can't help but smile at the Band's performance of British Marches, and their encore of Offenbach's Can-Can is suitably whimsical and virtuosic. This CD is a superb introduction to the world of the British brass band and should be savored as a delicacy.