Lyrebird Brass – Book of Brass (2024) [FLAC 24bit/48kHz]

Lyrebird Brass – Book of Brass (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 47:19 minutes | 402 MB | Genre: Classical
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Lyrebird Brass presents the world premieres of five contemporary brass quintets in BOOK OF BRASS, an album shaking up the scene with an assortment of boundary-pushing works by highly lauded and awarded composers.

Opening with three time GRAMMY® award winner Jennifer Higdon’s Book of Brass, this titular composition can be played and listened to in any order one pleases. From the intense energy of “Ramp Up” to the puzzling, slowly unfolding maze of “Acrostic,” Higdon certainly knows how to sell a story. Alice Humphries is no stranger to puzzlings in Uncertain Meditations, which considers ideas in isolation, reflecting on their vast possibilities. Reflection is at the core of Grace-Evangeline Mason’s poetic As Bronze, too, and found even in Kate Neal’s Fanfare, which, composed during the 2020 lockdown period, challenges what a fanfare represents.

Alan Holley rounds out the recording with The Goodchild Canzonas, a four movement work exploring atriums, cathedrals, and the heavens above, but perhaps most appropriately: the Lyrebird. BOOK OF BRASS is a winning installment in Lyrebird Brass’s already impressive oeuvre, pulling out all the stops with spirited fanfares and contemplative odes.

Tracklist:

01. Lyrebird Brass – Higdon: Book of Brass: I. Ramp Up (02:29)
02. Lyrebird Brass – Higdon: Book of Brass: II. Acrostic (03:26)
03. Lyrebird Brass – Higdon: Book of Brass: III. Glide and Fade (05:07)
04. Lyrebird Brass – Higdon: Book of Brass: IV. Punch It Up (02:47)
05. Lyrebird Brass – Mason: As Bronze (03:09)
06. Lyrebird Brass – Neal: Fanfare (03:31)
07. Lyrebird Brass – Humphries: Uncertain Meditations: I. Suspended Animation (02:04)
08. Lyrebird Brass – Humphries: Uncertain Meditations: II. Vorticity (02:39)
09. Lyrebird Brass – Humphries: Uncertain Meditations: III. Animated Suspensions (01:44)
10. Lyrebird Brass – Humphries: Uncertain Meditations: IV. Drift (back to you) (03:39)
11. Lyrebird Brass – Holley: Goodchild Canzonas: I. Lyrebird (04:24)
12. Lyrebird Brass – Holley: Goodchild Canzonas: II. Dulwich Ayre (04:35)
13. Lyrebird Brass – Holley: Goodchild Canzonas: III. Atrium (02:06)
14. Lyrebird Brass – Holley: Goodchild Canzonas: IV. Arcadia (05:32)

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