CD Cover - French Wind Band Classics

French Wind Band Classics - CHAN 9897

Royal Northern College of Music
Conductor: Tim Reynish
Trombone: Joseph Alessi

Composer Work Duration
Florent SchmittDionysiaques10.57
Camille Saint-SaensOrient et Occident8.07
Eugene BozzaChildren's Overture5.16
Darius MilhaudSuite Française14.51
Hector Berlioz Grande Symphonie funebre et Triomphale32.41

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Standard repertoire apart from the Bozza, a really great example of the wind orchestra series commissioned by Robert Boudreau for the American Wind Symphony, and the Saint-Saens which I think is a great original 19th century piece, both well worth exploring.