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Symphony (album) [audio download]
(album) [mp3 audio download] This recording features John Wallace's creation - Symphony. The composition of the title work began in 1974, and was only completed in 2024, some fifty years later. Written for brass band, brass quintet, double-belled solo trumpet, six natural trumpets, live electronics, organ, and bodhrán, this recording welcomes the eclectic contributions from Kingdom Brass, Whitburn Band, The cooperation band, The Wallace Collection, Sandy McGrattan and the RCS natural trumpet consort, Marco Blaauw (double-belled trumpet), Anthony George (tuba), Alistair McDonald (live electronics), David Hamilton (organ) and Steve Foreman (bodhrán), with Kingdom Brass also featuring in the closing track of the Martin Luther King-inspired Where do we go from here?
As Above, So Below (album) [audio download]
(album) [mp3 audio download The two works on this disc are groundbreaking landmarks in new composition for brass band. From 2017, Jay Capperauld's visionary masterpiece - As Above, So Below - extends composition for brass band into the realms of spatial quasi-religious experience. With the quintet elevated and spaced around the band, the band responds with a new vista of sound: everything from distant murmurings to cataclysmic rending of the air. From 1975, the Derek Bourgeois Concerto for Brass Quintet and Brass Band introduces a concertante quintet of orchestral instruments into the brass band milieu. Derek’s masterly exploitation of the increased palette of colour and texture results in a work of towering power and passion.