Eric Crees – Alto CD https://altocd.com Classical Music and Nostalgia CDs Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:40:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 American Brass ! Copland * Bernstein * Barber * Ives * Cowell https://altocd.com/product/american-brass-copland-bernstein-barber-ives-cowell/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:39:58 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=51454 American Brass ! Copland * Bernstein * Barber * Ives * Cowell London Symphony Brass; Director: Eric Crees Catalogue Number: ALC 1209 Number of Discs: 1 Date/Runtime: DDD, 1991 63:38 mins]]> “The very best in brass playing, brass-arranging, and brass-recording….players display every possible skill in the handling of the superlative arrangements by Eric Crees….music which lends itself ideally; ..West Side Story and El salón México …come up in places shining in a burnished brass colouring more effective than the originals. There remains the Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs…. Has a new masterpiece been born?” (c) Gramophone

    Aaron Copland (1900-90)

  • [1] Fanfare for the Common Man 3:07

    • Leonard Bernstein (1918-90)
    Suite from “West Side Story”     (arr. Eric Crees)

  • [2] Prologue 4:17 [3] Something’s coming 2:55
  • [4] Mambo 2:24 [5] Maria – Cha cha 1:18
  • [6] Scherzo 1:53 [7] America
    2:40
  • [8] Cool – Fugue 3:55 [9] Somewhere 4:23

    • Aaron Copland (1900-90)

  • [10] El Salon Mexico (arr. Eric Crees) 11:07

    • Henry Cowell (1897-1965)

  • [11] Fanfare for the Latin American Allies (arr. Eric Crees) 1:49

    • Samuel Barber (1910-81)

  • [12] Mutations from Bach 4:50

    • Charles Ives (1874-1954)

  • [13] Variations on “America” (arr. Eric Crees) 7:17

    • Aaron Copland (1900-90)

  • [14] Ceremonial Fanfare 3:52

    • Leonard Bernstein (1918-90)

  • [15] Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (arr. Eric Crees) 7:44
]]> Sacred Brass https://altocd.com/product/sacred-brass/ https://altocd.com/product/sacred-brass/#respond Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:35:50 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=50779 Sacred Brass

Polyphonic Arrangements for Brass

London Symphony Brass
Eric Crees, conductor

Catalogue Number: ALC 1027
Number of Discs: 1
Duration: 64:05

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Catalogue No: ALC 1027

“The very best in brass playing, brass-arranging, and brass-recording. … [S]ome 21 brass and percussion players display every possible skill in the handling of the superlative arrangements by Eric Crees” — Gramophone

A sonic blockbuster recording of baroque music and Brahms arranged for virtuoso brass.

[1] Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565* 9:0

Giovanni Gabrieli (c1553-1612):
[2] Canzon XVII à 12(Canzone e sonate 1615) 2:30
[3] Sonata Octavi Tonià 12 (Sacrae Symphoniae 1597) 5:13
[4] Canzon XVIà 12 (Canzone e sonate 1615) 3:50

[5] Jeremiah Clarke (c1674-1707): The King’s March & Prince Eugene’s March* 2:30
(solo trumpets Maurice Murphy and Roderick Franks)

Gabrieli: From Sacrae Sinfoniae 1597
[6] Sonata Pian e Forteà 8 – alla quarta bassa 4:54
[7] Canzon in Double Echoà 12 3:31
[8] Canzon Septimi Toni No.2 à 8 2:56
[9] Canzon Noni Toni à 12 3:31

Johannes Brahms (1833-97)
[10] Intermezzo, Op.119 No.2* 5:04
[11] Intermezzo, Op.119 No.3* 2:15
[12] Rhapsody, Op.119 No.4* 5:21

[13] Bach: Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV582* 13:24

* arrangements by Eric Crees. All editions published by Brass Wind Publications. [10]-[12] arranged and recorded specially in support of the Christopher Horn Trust (Charity No.1079838) / Colchester UK

Recorded: Barbican Hall, London (1991) and *St Bride’s Fleet St London (2000)
Re-mastered for Regis by Paul Arden-Taylor, Dinmore Records.

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