American Brass ! Copland * Bernstein * Barber * Ives * Cowell

Description

“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