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    1. Air Force Blue
    2. Air Force Blue
    Naxos

    Air Force Blue

    CD · 1 disc

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    Composer
    THURSTON PUCKETT WILBY
    Artist
    United States Air Force Band, Lang
    Released
    Mar 10, 2015

    With a tradition going back to its formation in 1941, The United States Air Force Band has long been the Air Force’s premier musical organisation, inspiring audiences in America and all over the world. Many of the works on this album demonstrate the history and importance of flying, from Philip Wilby’s vision of a bygone era in Dawn Flight, Bruce Yurko’s Red Tail Skirmish dedicated to the heroism of Tuskegee Airmen in WWII, and the futuristic excitement of Asimov’s Aviary by Joel Puckett. The spectacular virtuosity of The United States Air Force Band can also be heard in Time Travels by the band’s chief arranger, Senior Master Sgt. Robert Thurston, and in the superb arrangement of three movements from Holst’s The Planets.

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    Air Force Blue

    Naxos Mar 2015
    1 disc
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    1. Home Of The Brave / United States Air Force Band
    2. Home Of The Brave / United States Air Force Band
    Altissimo

    Home Of The Brave / United States Air Force Band

    CD · 1 disc

    $13.99 $18.99 Save 26%
    Composer
    THURSTON BERLIN RODGERS HAM
    Artist
    Us Air Force Band, Layendecker
    Released
    Apr 24, 2012
    Home of the Brave was recorded in honor of the deployed Airmen of the United States Air Force as a token of appreciation from a grateful nation. Several of the ensembles of the United States Air Force Band participated on this album, making it a well-rounded salute to the brave. The Ceremonial Brass, Max Impact, Singing Sergeants and Symphony Orchestra all collaborated on several of the pieces on this inspiring collection. Every song seeks to pay tribute to American heroes, evoking a feeling of patriotism and respect in each listener. The spirit and courage of those who inspired this album are what truly makes America the Home of the Brave.
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    Home Of The Brave / United States Air Force Band

    Altissimo Apr 2012
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99 $13.99Save 26%
  • Cool Yule

    Cool Yule

    Altissimo Sep 2011
    1 disc
    CD
    $14.99
    • CENTENARY EDITION (100TH ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH ON
    WARNER CLASSICS

    CENTENARY EDITION (100TH ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH ON

    CD · 11 discs

    $34.49
    Composer
    0
    Artist
    Dennis, Brain
    Released
    Jun 04, 2021
    Limited 11 CD set. "In his warm and serene person all the essential qualities of the great interpretative artist were blended in perfect harmony." Dennis Brain's life was cut short in 1957 when he was just 36, but he had already assured his reputation as the greatest horn-player of the 20th century. He remains an exemplar for his successors today. "Technical problems did not exist for him," continued the eulogy written by Walter Legge, EMI's legendary producer and founder of the Philharmonia Orchestra. "Over his instrument's whole range he had a mastery of intonation, of legato, of staccato, of dynamic range and, above all, of expressiveness." This 11CD collection presents all his Warner recordings as concerto soloist and chamber and ensemble player - including music composed with him in mind - and his most notable contributions to symphonic, choral and operatic works. He performs in several CD premieres - music by Handel, Strauss, Richard Arnell and Norman Forber Kay - and a 1953 recording now released for the first time: Vincent d'Indy's wind septet Chanson et danses.
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  • CENTENARY EDITION (100TH ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH ON

    CENTENARY EDITION (100TH ANNIVERSARY OF BIRTH ON

    WARNER CLASSICS Jun 2021
    11 discs
    CD
    $34.49
  • Day Is Done: Music Commemorating The 150th Anniversay Of Taps
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    Day Is Done: Music Commemorating The 150th Anniversay Of Taps

    Altissimo Oct 2011
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    • HANDEL MARRINER: THE DECCA LEGACY
    ELOQUENCE AUSTRALIA

    HANDEL MARRINER: THE DECCA LEGACY

    CD · 19 discs

    $107.23
    Artist
    HANDEL / MARRINER, NEVILLE
    Released
    Mar 29, 2024
    LIMITED EDITION. A unique collection of L'Oiseau-Lyre, Argo, Decca and Philips albums in original covers, showcasing both the genius of Handel and the musicianship of the classic ASMF/Marriner pairing at it's most stylish. Even while a member of the London Symphony Orchestra in the early 1950s, Neville Marriner had made recordings for L'Oiseau-Lyre as a violinist in the Jacobean Ensemble. Accordingly, he took a tape of a concerto grosso to the label's legendary owner, Louise Hanson-Dyer. The artists on it were his new ensemble, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. This modest demonstration tape ultimately led to more than 500 recordings, and the success of the Academy with Marriner as the world's most recorded partnership. Handel was an integral part of the Academy's work firstly for L'Oiseau-Lyre, then for Argo, finally for the Dutch label Philips. (Marriner and the Academy also recorded music by Handel for EMI.) Without including later duplicate versions, this box compiles for the first time all the ASMF/Marriner albums made for the Decca family of labels as well as Philips between 1961 and 1997, amounting to a comprehensive survey of the composer's orchestral music, ornamented with Acis and Galatea, Messiah, Jephtha and the Coronation Anthems. Critics from the outset praised not just the energy of the Academy and Marriner in Handel's Concerti grossi, but also their Polish, at a time when period-instrument versions were technically unreliable. Soloists such as the oboist Roger Lord emerged naturally from an ensemble of soloists in the first place. A succession of keyboard players pays testament to the determination of Marriner to find a degree of authenticity in 18th-century music that worked practically for him and his colleagues. First of all his friend Thurston Dart, who researched the sources for much of the music played here, and the mercurial choir director and harpsichordist George Malcolm. In a later generation came Andrew Davis and Christopher Hogwood, the organist on the Argo Messiah which was recorded using his edition. All the vocal works are cast from strength, including Elly Ameling and Philip Langridge in Messiah, Jill Gomez and Robert Tear in Acis and Galatea, and Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Emma Kirkby in Jephtha. Tear is also heard in a lesser-known 1969 album of German and English arias. From 1997, Dmitri Hvorostovsky is heard in Handel excerpts from his 'Arie antiche' album, testifying to the durability of a marriage between ensemble, conductor and composer which survived tumultuous artistic change. Further highlights include the classic Fireworks/Water Music pairing from 1971, ballet music from Ariodante and Alcina (also Argo), the Concerti a due cori from 1979 and the digital-era Philips album of Coronation Anthems, as well as a curiosity: two choruses from Messiah recorded in the studio as a promotional item for the forthcoming recording on Philips of the complete oratorio from Dublin. Handel was their home territory, as Peter Quantrill illustrates in a booklet essay discussing the history of the Academy and Marriner with Handel's music. Philip Stuart, author of Marriner and the Academy: A Record Partnership, contributes a 'sessionography'.
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  • HANDEL MARRINER: THE DECCA LEGACY
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    HANDEL MARRINER: THE DECCA LEGACY

    ELOQUENCE AUSTRALIA Mar 2024
    19 discs
    CD
    $107.23