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References
- Hyperion Records CDA66517 (UK, 1991).
- Helios CDH55018 (UK, 1999).
Credits
- American Music for Brass by Ives, Barber, Harris, Thomson, Cowell, Ruggles, Carter and Glass.
- Performed by The London Gabrieli Brass Ensemble
- Conductor: Chistopher Larkin.
- On Glass's "Brass Sextet":
- Trumpets: William Houghton, Joseph Atkins.
- Horns: David Lee, Christopher Larkin.
- Trombone: James Casey.
- Tuba: Stephen Wick.
- Recorded in All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, on 14, 15 July 1991.
- Recording Engineer: Anthony Howell.
- Recording Producer: Mark Brown.
- Design: Terry Shannon.
- Executive Producers: Joanna Gamble, Edward Perry.
- © Hyperion Records Ltd., London, 1991.
Tracks
- 1. Charles Ives "From the Steeples and the Mountains" (4:12).
- 2. Samuel Barber "Mutations from Bach" (5:33).
- 3. Roy Harrys "Chorale for Organ and Brass" (12:41).
- 4 - 8. Virgil Thomson "Family Portrait" (11:17).
- 9. Henry Cowell "Grinnell Fanfare" (3:01).
- 10. Henry Cowell "Tall Tale" (4:12).
- 11-12. Henry Cowell "Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 12 (4:18).
- 13. Henry Cowell "Rondo" (4:36).
- 14-16. Philip Glass "Brass Sextet" (7:27).
- 14. Hymn (2:05).
- 15. Ballad (3:13).
- 16. Finale (1:59).
- 17. Carl Ruggles "Angels" (2:57).
- 18. Elliott Carter "A fantasy about Purcell's Fantasia upon Note (3:08).
- 19. Charles Ives "Processional: Let there be Light" (2:32).
Total Time 1:07:38.
Notes
Brass Sextet composed in 1962/64 for two trumpets, two horns, trombone and tuba, is something of a curiosity. It was written when Philip Glass, after graduating from the Julliard School of Music, was composer-in-residence with the Pittsburgh Public Schools on a Ford Foundation project. This was several years before he began to become known for the repetitive minimalist techniques which launched him to fame and have enabled him to enter some of the world's leading opera houses. The Sextet is not listed by Glass now, but it was actually published in England in 1966 by Novello & Co. in their Music for Today Series edited by Geoffrey Bush. The writing shifts rather uneasily from consonance to dissonance but there is plenty of American precedent behind the Hymn, Ballad and gently jazzy Finale. graduating from the Julliard School of Music, was composer-in-residence with the Pittsburgh Public Schools on a Ford Foundation project. This was several years before he began to become known for the repetitive minimalist techniques which launched him to fame and have enabled him to enter some of the world's leading opera houses. The Sextet is not listed by Glass now, but it was actually published in England in 1966 by Novello & Co. in their 'Music for Today' Series edited by Geoffrey Bush. The writing shifts rather uneasily from consonance to dissonance but there is plenty of American precedent behind the Hymn, Ballad and gently jazzy Finale.
- Peter Dickinson © 1991
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