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Nadia

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Details

Composer
Marion Bauer, Nadia Boulanger, Elliott Carter, Philip Glass, Quincy Jones
Artist
WindSync
Format
CD
Label
Delos
Released
Apr 10, 2026
Catalog #
DE 3618
UPC
013491361826

About

Following critical acclaim from The New York Times, Gramophone, and BBC Music Magazine for his album Forgotten Sounds, clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson returns to Delos with Windsync. "A major force in the American chamber music landscape," the wind quintet has performed throughout the United States and abroad, presenting largely self-generated repertoire - commissioned by the group or arranged in-house. On this album, the musicians trace the stylistic diversity of American music back to a single source: not a founding father but a French mademoiselle, Nadia Boulanger. The composer, conductor, music theorist, and legendary composition pedagogue wielded immense influence over American music and musicians. The formidable roster of Boulanger students featured on this album bear witness to this: Philip Glass, Elliott Carter, Quincy Jones, and Marion Bauer, whose Woodwind Quintet has been revived and recorded here for the first time. On Nadia, Windsync hopes to humanize Mademoiselle, as she was known by her pupils, by telling her story through a century's worth of music written by teacher and students - a legacy of dizzyingly varied American music that reverberates to this day.

Tracklist 12 tracks

  1. 1 Prelude in F Minor (arr. K. LaMoure for wind quintet) 05:13
    Track
    1
    Title
    Prelude in F Minor (arr. K. LaMoure for wind quintet)
    Duration
    05:13
    Composer
    Nadia Boulanger
    Ensemble
    WindSync
  2. 2 No. 1. Modéré 02:41
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 1. Modéré
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    Nadia Boulanger
    Ensemble
    WindSync
  3. 3 No. 2. Sans vitesse et à l'aise 02:00
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 2. Sans vitesse et à l'aise
    Duration
    02:00
    Composer
    Nadia Boulanger
    Ensemble
    WindSync
  4. 4 No. 3. Vite et nerveusement rythmé 02:49
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 3. Vite et nerveusement rythmé
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Nadia Boulanger
    Ensemble
    WindSync
  5. 5 I. Allegro commodo 02:24
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Allegro commodo
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Marion Eugénie Bauer
    Ensemble
    WindSync
  6. 6 II. Allegro gioviale 03:47
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Allegro gioviale
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Marion Eugénie Bauer
    Ensemble
    WindSync
  7. 7 III. Andante pastorale 03:55
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. Andante pastorale
    Duration
    03:55
    Composer
    Marion Eugénie Bauer
    Ensemble
    WindSync
  8. 8 IV. Allegro giocoso 02:22
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Allegro giocoso
    Duration
    02:22
    Composer
    Marion Eugénie Bauer
    Ensemble
    WindSync
  9. 9 Etudes, Book 2: Etude No. 17 (arr. K. LaMoure for wind quintet) 07:59
    Track
    9
    Title
    Etudes, Book 2: Etude No. 17 (arr. K. LaMoure for wind quintet)
    Duration
    07:59
    Composer
    Philip Glass
    Ensemble
    WindSync
  10. 10 I. Allegretto 04:20
    Track
    10
    Title
    I. Allegretto
    Duration
    04:20
    Composer
    Elliott Carter
    Ensemble
    WindSync
  11. 11 II. Allegro giocoso 04:09
    Track
    11
    Title
    II. Allegro giocoso
    Duration
    04:09
    Composer
    Elliott Carter
    Ensemble
    WindSync
  12. 12 The Midnight Sun Will Never Set (arr. O. Broder for wind quintet) 03:40
    Track
    12
    Title
    The Midnight Sun Will Never Set (arr. O. Broder for wind quintet)
    Duration
    03:40
    Composer
    Quincy Jones, Henri Salvador
    Ensemble
    WindSync