Sousa: Music for Wind Band Volume 8

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JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
Sousa: Music for Wind Band Volume 8
Royal Artillery Band / Keith Brion

[ Naxos American Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 6 December 2010

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"Keith Brion needs to be congratulated for the most successful ambience. Then there's precision playing by the Royal Artillery Band and a recording nicely balanced by Mike Purton. In military music there is often a tendency for the percussion to mask the more delicate phrases of woodwind, yet here much sensitivity is shown to provide us with wide dynamics and colour."
(MusicWeb Nov 2010)

"This Sousa wind band series continues to grow. One has to admit that Sousa's prolific output of stirring tunes is justly acknowledged by Naxos. This inventive composer has found many textural corners to turn in a march, even if some of his musical devices have become predictable. Keith Brion needs to be congratulated for the most successful ambience. Then there's precision playing by the Royal Artillery Band and a recording nicely balanced by Mike Purton. In military music there is often a tendency for the percussion to mask the more delicate phrases of woodwind, yet here much sensitivity is shown to provide us with wide dynamics and colour."
(MusicWeb Nov 2010)

Tracks:

The High School Cadets (1890)
The Northern Pines (1931)
Selections from El Capitan (1895)
Boy Scouts of America (1916)
Crusader March (1888)
Oh, Warrior Grim (from 'El Capitan')* (1895)
On the Campus (1920)
Jack Tar (1903)
Comrades of the Legion (1920)
Pride of Pittsburgh (1901)
Suite: At the King's Court (1904): Her Ladyship, the Countess; Her Grace, the Duchess; Her Majesty, the Queen;
The Washington Post (1899)