Title: Rosner: Music for Symphonic Wind Band Artist: Density512 Label: Toccata Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 5060113447562 Genre: Classical Artists Release Date: 2025-03-07 Number of Discs: 1
Arnold Rosner (1945-2013) was a New Yorker through and through, but his musical language reached across time and cultures, clothing the modal harmony and rhythm of pre-Baroque polyphony in rich Romantic colours, thus producing a style that is instantly recognisable and immediately appealing. Having written his Eighth Symphony for symphonic wind band, he took a liking to the idiom, composing seven more works for this archetypical formation of American university life, none of them recorded before now. Their inspiration is eclectic - they range from descriptive tone-poems via the recreation of an Indian raga and other folk-based pieces to more formal structures - but Rosner's unerring balance of dignity and energy is common to all of them and stamps them with a sound that is uniquely his.
Tracks: 1.1 Dances of Initiation, Op. 98~I. Maestoso 1.2 Dances of Initiation, Op. 98~II. Andante moderato 1.3 Dances of Initiation, Op. 98~III. Allegro 1.4 Eclipse, Op. 100 1.5 RAGA!, Op. 104 1.6 De Profundis, Op. 91 1.7 Now Cometh the Redeemer, Op. 119 1.8 Three Northern Sketches, Op. 117~No. 1. Ice Sculpture 1.9 Three Northern Sketches, Op. 117~No. 2. Pastorale 1.10 Three Northern Sketches, Op. 117~No. 3. Aurora 1.11 Lovely Joan: Rhapsody on an English Folksong, Op. 88
