COMPANY: Naxos
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Various Composers

Product: 747313331475

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What if four celebrated nineteenth-century composers – Mendelssohn, Schumann, Bruckner and Brahms – had written original works for brass septet? This disc explores that fascinating counterfactual twist, re-imagining choral and organ works by those composers. The arrangements call on the full dynamic and tonal range of the instruments – often extended with a multitude of mutes – to imitate the expressivity of the choir, the power of the organ, and the versatile sonorities of its different registrations and manuals. In dazzling and varied combinations the arrangers and performers together persuade us that this could indeed be original brass chamber music.

January 2015

Septura has managed to plug the void most effectively with this superbly played and warmly engineered debut disc of imaginatively conceived arrangements. Unsurprisingly, some of the richest picking come from the organ repertory.

28th September 2014

this enterprising ensemble consists of principal players from our leading orchestras (LSO, Philharmonia, RPO, BBC SO, CBSO, Scottish Opera and Aurora) – all ace musicians, as this stirring, thoughtful debut CD for Naxos confirms. Look out for the next in the series.

Works Brahms: Chorale Prelude Op. 122 No. 1 'My Jesus, who you me' Brahms: Chorale Prelude Op. 122 No. 2 'Heart Beloved Jesus' Brahms: Chorale Prelude Op. 122 No. 3 'O world, I have to let you' Brahms: Chorale Prelude Op. 122 No. 7 'O God, you devout God' Brahms: Chorale Prelude Op. 122 No. 9 'Heartily makes me ask' Brahms: Geistliches Lied, Op. 30th Bruckner: Aequalis No. 1 for three trombones Bruckner: Aequalis No. 2 for three trombones Bruckner: Ave Maria (1861), WAB 6 Bruckner: Christus factus est, WAB 11 Bruckner: Locus iste, WAB 23 Bruckner: Os justi meditabitur sapientiam Mendelssohn: Organ Sonata No. 2 in C minor, Op. 65 No. 2nd Schumann: Four double-choir chants, Op. 141 Groups & Artists Septura