American Classics - Foster For Brass / Chestnut Brass

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
May 1, 2004
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FOSTER
    • PERFORMER
      Chestnut Brass Company
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Ellen Bayne

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    2. Why, no-one to love

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    3. Beautiful dreamer

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    4. We are coming Father Abraham

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    5. Maggie by my side

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    6. Santa Anna's retreat

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    7. Some folks

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    8. Open the lattice love

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    9. Old Dog Tray

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    10. Massa's in de cold, cold ground

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    11. When This Dreadful War Is Ended

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    12. Come where my love lies dreaming

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    13. Gentle Annie

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    14. Lula Is Gone

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    15. Bronze Bob Tail Horse Quick Step

      Composer: David C. Hall

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    16. California Quick Step

      Composer: Edward Little White

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    17. Dolly Day Quick Step

      Composer: Claudio S. Grafulla

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    18. Hard Times Waltz

      Composer: James Bellak

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    19. My old Kentucky home, good night

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    20. My wife is a most knowing woman

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    21. Willie Schottische

      Composer: Septimus Winner

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    22. George Hart's Quick Step

      Composer: Claudio S. Grafulla

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    23. Camptown Quick Step

      Composer: William Ratel

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    24. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming Quick Step

      Composer: Alfred Squire

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    25. Where has Lula gone?

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    26. Farewell my Lilly dear

      Composer: Stephen Foster

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company

    27. Colonel Meeker's Quick Step

      Composer: John P. King

      Ensemble: Chestnut Brass Company


In addition to touring troupes and performances on parlor pianos, much of Foster's music circulated during his lifetime in versions for brass bands. Adolphe Sax, best known today as the inventor of the saxophone, had perfected "saxhorns" in the 1840s, a matched family of conical bore brasses using the recently developed valve system, and their powerful yet sweet sound quickly came to dominate public music throughout mid-19th century America. As an adventure in musical time travel the sounds that listeners in Foster's time would have heard are duplicated on this recording by a quintet of authentic period instruments. Their unique sound is strikingly different from that of modern brasses. Additionally, at a time when the distinctions between classical and popular music were less marked than today, their performers would have blended elements of classical, popular and folk traditions. Though Foster wrote few instrumental pieces himself, his sturdy melodies were regularly adapted as marches, quick steps and dance pieces by other composers, a typical practice of the time.