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Album
Canadian Brass Takes Flight
Release Date:
12/06/2011
Label:
Steinway & Sons
Catalog #:
30008
Composer:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , Sonny Kompanek , Johann Sebastian Bach , John Dowland ...
Performer:
Eric Reed , Achilles Liarmakopoulos , Chris Coletti , Brandon Ridenour ...
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Number of Discs:
1
Recorded in:
Stereo
Length:
1 Hours 0 Mins.
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The premiere release of the Canadian Brass on the Steinway & Sons label, and first recording with all of the new permanent members of the ensemble: Charles Daellenbach (tuba), Chris Coletti and Brandon Ridenour (trumpets), Achilles Liarmakopoulos (trombone) and Eric Reed (horn).
This is the first recording the Canadian Brass have made with their new custom-made gold-plated instruments built by Conn-Selmer. The repertoire features favorite encores, new arrangements, and world premieres. As with their other recent releases, this disc is an audiophile sonic blockbuster, produced by Dixon Van Winkle and MB Daellenbach.
After 40 years, the "Brass" have maintained a remarkable consistency in their
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style and virtuosity, even as the individual members have gradually changed. The current makeup of the ensemble includes founding member, Chuck Daellenbach on tuba and the latest addition, Achilles Liarmakopoulos on trombone, replacing the recently retired founding member, Eugene Watts.
R E V I E W S:
If there's anything guaranteed in life it's that you will be thoroughly entertained, uplifted, and satisfied when you listen to a Canadian Brass recording - any Canadian Brass recording. This is the outfit that defined, and still commands pre-eminence in, the world of brass quintet music and performance, and here the group (with only one remaining original member, tuba virtuoso Chuck Daellenbach) offers a killer program beginning with Flight of the Bumblebee and ending with Don Gillis' arrangement of the gospel standard Just a Closer Walk with Thee. There's all the wondrous technical bedazzlement and trademark humor, elevated to inimitable artistic heights by the awe-inspiring polish and always-present musicality. You'll love that juxtaposed "When the saints" and the "Hallelujah" chorus' classic Canadian Brass, as you will cherish the gorgeous and very moving Quintet by Michael Kamen, the Gabrieli Canzona, and the Bach Air. Indispensable!
-- David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com
Steinway's first non-piano classical release is a humdinger. The Brass is well polished and absolutely brilliant.
"Steinway's first non-piano classical release is a humdinger. Playing with the freedom they haven't had in years, the Brass is well polished and absolutely brilliant. Sonically alone, this cd is worth the price of admission. When you add the playing, fuggedaboudit (in a good way)!!! Simply a smoking classical crossover date that is first call/top shelf throughout. A must for all light classical ears that are tuned to serious music."
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The Canadian Brass give us a wide variety of music on this, their latest release on the Steinway & Sons label. All of the music is delivered pitch perfect and graced with highly polished musicianship. The album has enough variety for everyone from casual listener to total brass aficionado. The booklet tells us that this is the first Canadian Brass recording with the new permanent members of the ensemble and also their first recording made with new custom-made 24K gold-plated instruments built by the Conn-Selmer company, and what beautiful sounding instruments they are! This overall golden sound is what is first noticed even before the impressive musicianship. The brass sound often becomes a sensual experience. The repertoire features favorite encores, new arrangements, and world premieres. Here are some highlights.
Sonny Kompanek, known for his score to The Big Lebowski and many other films, composed the Killer Tango which combines a mood of Latin suave with a bit of Hollywood. The warm ensemble playing achieves a lyrical mellowness approaching the lush fullness of a string orchestra.
If there's a brass ensemble there must be Bach organ arrangements, and the Bach pieces, which include the Little Fugue in G Minor BWV 578, Fantasia & Fugue in D Minor BWV 905 and the ever-popular Air on the G String are superbly played with such individual purity of line that in addition to simply pleasant listening, this music could serve any student of counterpoint, as the timbre of each instrument clearly delineates every melodic line.
The first arrangement on the album, Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee is the most eccentric, and one could also choose to listen to it last. Depending on what type of listener you are, your reaction might likely be delight, amusement or disorientation, or a combination of all three. The playing itself is incredible in terms of musicianship, phrasing and articulation. Amusingly, on a purely musical level, the arrangement itself is total kitsch, lacking any and all evocation of a bee or any insect in flight. Brass virtuosity is all there is and its fully on display here. On the other hand, both Dowland's lovely lute song Come Again, Sweet Love as well as Scheidt's echo-filled and more rapid Galliard Battaglia have a calm dignity that make these pieces sound as if both were originally written for brass instruments instead of voices. Probably because both were originally vocal works, these pieces sing as well as shine.
On the lighter side, the witty arrangement by Arthur Frackenpohl of Mozart's Turkish Rondo is a welcome contrast. Most people have heard La Cumparsita by Gerardo Matos Rodríguez without knowing the title or the composer. (If you?ve seen the classic film
Some Like It Hot
, it's the tango Jack Lemon and Joe E. Brown dance to.) Another Kompanek arrangement, this one has a swerving, comical swagger.
After many other adventures, including Michael Kamen's gorgeous Quintet, just 4 minutes long, and the outdoor park-band style of melodic ornaments and acrobatics in Carnival in Venice, the album ends with a stately but not so sad New Orleans funeral march, slow to the cemetery and joyful on return. All of this music, from Renaissance to New Orleans, is heard through the style of the Canadian Brass rather than trying to match the performance practices of past eras. This is analogous to a modern pianist who might play a variety of Baroque works written before the piano was invented yet adapted to the modern keyboard sound. Here the music is interpreted on gorgeous brass instruments by an award-winning ensemble with a characteristic sound. There are many albums on which to hear this music in its original form, so enjoy the thrilling brass as there are many more surprises in store. Recommended to anyone who admires good musicianship, beautiful sound quality, and a brass ensemble ranging from piccolo-trumpet through horn to tuba.
-- Greg La Traille, ArkivMusic.com
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1.
Tale of Tsar Saltan: Suite, Op. 57 - Flight of the bumblebee
Composer:
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
Romantic
Written:
1903 Russia
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
2.
Killer Tango
Composer:
Sonny Kompanek
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
20th/21st Century
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
3.
Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 "Little G minor"
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
Baroque
Written:
by 1706 Arnstadt, Germany
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
4.
Fantasia and Fugue in D minor, BWV 905
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
Baroque
Written:
circa 1725 Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
5.
Firste Booke of Songes or Ayres: no 17, Come againe, sweet love doth now envite
Composer:
John Dowland
Performer:
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Eric Reed (Horn)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
Renaissance
Written:
1597 England
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
6.
Ludi musici, Book 1: Cantus no 21, Galliard battaglia à 5, SSWV 59
Composer:
Samuel Scheidt
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
Baroque
Written:
1621 Germany
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
7.
Golyardes' Grounde
Composer:
Malcolm Forsyth
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1972 Canada
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
8.
La cumparsita
Composer:
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
9.
Sonata for Piano no 11 in A major, K 331 (300i): 3rd movement, Rondo alla turca
Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
Classical
Written:
1781-1783 Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
10.
Brandon's Lament
Composer:
Brandon Ridenour
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
21st Century
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
11.
Chorale Preludes (11) for Organ, Op. 122: no 10, Herzlich tut mich verlangen
Composer:
Johannes Brahms
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
Romantic
Written:
1896 Austria
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
12.
Canzoni et sonate (21): Canzon I a 5
Composer:
Giovanni Gabrieli
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
Renaissance
Written:
Venice, Italy
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
13.
Suite for Orchestra no 3 in D major, BWV 1068: Air
Composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
Baroque
Written:
circa 1729-1731 Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
14.
Quintet for Brass
Composer:
Michael Kamen
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
20th Century
Written:
2001
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
15.
Carnival of Venice
Composer:
Howard Cable
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
16.
The Saints' Halleluja
Composer:
Luther Henderson
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
20th Century
Written:
USA
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
17.
Tuba Tiger Rag
Composer:
Luther Henderson
Performer:
Eric Reed (Horn) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Charles Daellenbach (Tuba)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period:
20th Century
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
18.
Just a closer walk with Thee
Composer:
Traditional
Performer:
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba) , Brandon Ridenour (Trumpet) , Chris Coletti (Trumpet) , Achilles Liarmakopoulos (Trombone) , Eric Reed (Horn)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Date of Recording:
8/2011
Venue:
Christ Church, Deer Park, Toronto, Canad
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