Black Castles - British Music for Brass | BIS BISCD1354

Black Castles - British Music for Brass

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISCD1354

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 30th April 2007

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For their third disc on BIS, the musicians in the ensemble brass partout have chosen music from the great British brass tradition. The earliest work is Elgar’s Severn Suite, composed during the heyday of the brass band in Britain, when there were more than 20,000 brass bands in existence. Of the remaining composers, Bourgeois, Butterworth and Pickard have all written several works for brass ensemble, while Tavener and Turnage are represented with their only compositions in the genre.
 
Consisting of players from some of Germany’s foremost orchestras, the ensemble 'brass partout' was founded in 1991. Ever since then they have been giving concerts, appearing in varying groupings as dictated by the programme: from septets to larger scorings for 16 or more instruments. Besides original compositions, brass partout’s repertoire features arrangements written for the ensemble, such as Dudley Bright’s arrangement of the Elgar Suite on the present CD. 
 
Reviewers have remarked upon the combination of virtuosic musicianship, impeccable ensemble playing and sensitive interpretation displayed by the group under the direction of Hermann Bäumer. Consequently, their previous release on BIS, 'Playground for Angels', was the chamber music ‘Pick of the Month’ in BBC Music Magazine.

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