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Grainger: Works for Concert Band
Britten: A Simple Symphony
Warlock: Capriol Suite
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Artist
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The UCLA Wind Ensemble. The Orchestra da Camera di Roma. James Westbrook & Nicolas Flagello, conductors.
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Label
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Phoenix USA
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Format
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CD
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Runtime/Release Date
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63'21/1991
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Label Number
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119
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Daedalus Item Code
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17898
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This item is not available.
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Description
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Percy Grainger's charming suite of miniatures (Lincolnshire Posy, Colonial Song, The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare, Shepherd's Hey, Faeroe Island Dance, Molly on the Shore, Irish Tune from County Derry, The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol) is succeeded by Britten's delightful Simple Symphony (composed when he was 20 from music written in his childhood) and Warlock's popular Capriol Suite (inspired by sprightly tunes from the book of a 16th-century dancing master). "However disparate the recordings of the big concert band and the little string orchestra may seem, their combination here proves to be musically satisfying. The Grainger works … are played by a conductor and band who lovingly convey the skill and ingenuity with which the Australian composer wrought them. Nicolas Flagello and his Roman strings provide a welcome contrast. Unifying the whole program is a certain folksy quality deliberate in two of the scores and unconsciously but equally present in the other…. Spirited, enjoyable performances, well recorded."—Fanfare
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