Release Date: 21 October 2016
Label: NMC Recordings
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5023363022620
Genres: Classical Instrumental
Description
The period between the two world wars was one of the richest in music composed for brass bands. Elgar, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, Arthur Bliss, John Ireland and others added their voices to a growing repertoire, but little of that paid tribute to the loss of so many young lives, countless brass musicians among them. The musical war memorials receiving their first recorded performances here are of more recent vintage. They are framed by the music of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), whose pacifist sympathies are enshrined in some of his finest music, the War Requiem being the most well known.
Tracklisting
Lisa Illean, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, GBSR Duo, Juliet Fraser, Explore Ensemble
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, London Sinfonietta, Ryan Wigglesworth, Huw Watkins
Richard Baker
Mark Padmore, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta
Zubin Kanga
Thomas Simaku, soloists of Ensemble Intercontemporain
Onyx Brass
Tredegar Town Band, Ross Knight, Ian Porthouse, Martyn Brabbins
David Briggs, Tredegar Town Band, Ian Porthouse, Mary Bevan, Nicky Spence, Roderick Williams, William Vann, Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Lynn Arnold, Charles Matthews
