Rosner: Music for Symphonic Wind Band

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Schnitzer, Jacob Aaron;
Perry Clark, Nicholas

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Arnold Rosner (1945–2013) was a New Yorker through and through, but his musical language reached across time and culture, clothing the modal harmony and rhythm of pre-Baroque polyphony in rich Romantic colours, thus producing a style that is instantly recognisable and immediately appealing. Having written his Eighth Symphony for symphonic wind band, he took a liking to the medium, composing seven more works for this popular feature of American university life, none of them recorded before now. Their inspiration is eclectic – from ethnic material and natural phenomena to religious stimuli – but Rosner’s unerring balance of dignity and energy is common to all of them and stamps them with a sound that is uniquely his.

Works:

•Arnold Rosner: Dances of Initiation op. 98;
•Arnold Rosner: Eclipse op. 100;
•Arnold Rosner: RAGA op. 104;
•Arnold Rosner: De Profundis op. 91;
•Arnold Rosner: Now cometh the Redeemer op. 119;
•Arnold Rosner: 3 Northern Sketches op. 117;
•Arnold Rosner: Rhapsody on an English Folksong op. 88 "Lovely Joan"

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Toccata Classics

04-03-2025

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