German Brass – Trip to America (2019) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

German Brass, the most renowned and award-winning classical brass ensemble in Europe, takes the audience on a musical trip to America and presents works of composers from America such as Leonard Bernstein (Candide Overture), George Gershwin (Porgy and Bess), Aaron Copland (“Hoe-Down”), Samuel Barber (Adagio for Strings) and Cole Porter (Kiss Me, Kate) – newly arranged by and for the members of the ensemble. This mix of classical music and jazz fits perfectly to the sound, which defines German Brass. On it’s new album the ensemble virtuously performs the most beautiful pieces from Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess to the world-famous Adagio for Strings by Barber. German Brass creates the most laid-back and swinging sound as you have never heard from them before.

Brass ensembles come into and go out of fashion in classical music, but the German Brass has survived several cycles now. That’s partly because they are not a brass quintet but, as some say, a tentet, which gives them quite a bit of range in terms of repertory covered, with members of the group generally doing the arranging. They are not restricted to Gabrieli and the like, and often do not play the Renaissance repertory. Programming is another of the group’s strengths. Both in performance and on recordings, they offer thematic programs that take the form of a trip to a specific locale. These positive traits come together on Trip to America, which includes transcriptions of various types of pieces. You get orchestral works (Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, Copland’s “Hoe-Down,” from Rodeo, Barber’s Adagio for strings), piano works (Gershwin’s Preludes), excerpts from the opera Porgy and Bess, and musicals, which are treated quite differently from the opera: for Bernstein’s West Side Story and Cole Porter’s Too Darn Hot, a jazz percussion section is introduced. The palette of ensemble sounds is wide. You wouldn’t think that the Preludes would translate well to the brass ensemble medium, but sample the slow central Prelude for an attractive variety of timbres. The players, drawn from various German orchestras, are precise, nowhere more apparent than in the “Hoe-Down,” where the little ornament that sets the music in motion is cleanly rendered. This is enjoyable light music for any occasion, and American listeners may well hope that the German Brass makes its own Trip to America on tour with this album.

Tracklist:
1. Candide, Act I: Overture (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
2. I. Allegro ben ritmanto e deciso (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
3. II. Andante con moto e poco rubato (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
4. III. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
5. Porgy and Bess, Act II: Oh I Can’t Sit Down (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
6. Porgy and Bess, Act I: Summertime (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
7. Porgy and Bess, Act II: It Ain’t Necessarily So (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
8. Porgy and Bess, Act II: Bess, You Is My Woman Now (Arr. For Brass Ensemble)
9. Porgy and Bess, Act III: There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin Soon for New York (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
10. Rodeo: Hoe-Down (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
11. Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
12. West Side Story, Act I: Prologue (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
13. West Side Story, Act I: Maria & Mambo (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)
14. Kiss Me, Kate, Act II: Too Darn Hot (Arr. for Brass Ensemble)

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