American Visions – American Brass Quintet

Catalog number: 365

Tracks:

	01 Brass Quintet No. 1 - Mvt. 1. Maestoso comp: Melinda Wagner
	02 Brass Quintet No. 1 - Mvt. 2. Ethereal, disembodied
	03 Brass Quintet No. 1 - Mvt. 3. Alternately stately and lilting
	04 Consananze Stravaganti comp: Andrew Thomas
	05 Brass Quintet - Mvt. 1. Little Requiem with Fanfares comp: Robert Beaser
	06 Brass Quintet - Mvt. 2. Fanfare with Alleluias
	07 Be Not Afraid, The Isle Is Full of Noises comp: Samuel Adler
	08 Fifth Fanfare For The Uncommon Woman comp: J. Tower
	09 American Hymn comp: William Schuman

…. In the field of contemporary brass music, the American Brass Quintet continues to be recognized as one of the world’s leading ensembles.

The new recording features significant, twenty-first-century quintets by Samuel Adler, Robert Beaser, and Melinda Wagner along with Andrew Thomas’ Consonanze Stravaganti (1982), William Schuman’s American Hymn (in a new ten-part version by ABQ trumpeter Kevin Cobb).

The recording is engineered and produced by Judith Sherman.

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