Outrageous Fortune: Four Concertos for Trombone and Winds
This unusual album shows the contemporary trombone in a rich variety of guises – dramatic, lyrical, flirtatious, solemn, capricious and many more – in four recent concertante pieces for trombone and symphonic wind band, demonstrating the striking versatility of the instrument. It’s an international undertaking, too: the soloist is English, the band and conductor American, and the composers American, Danish, Belgian and English, all four writing in a language that is direct and immediate.
Brett Baker, trombone
Natalie Grady, voice actor (Tracks 5, 6)
Middle Tennessee State University Wind Ensemble
Reed Thomas, conductor
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JAN VAN DER ROOST
- I Sounds
- II Caprice
- Allegro ritmico – Andante con moto – Cadenza – Andante con moto – Largo – Molto allegro – Subito meno mosso, maestoso alla marcia
- Lento expressivo – Più mosso – Subito allegro – Cadenza: Rubato – Subito allegro – Cadenza – Subito allegro – Lento molto expressivo, tempo primo – Subito moderato – Allegro con fuoco, poco più mosso – Slow, calm – Allegro – Slow – Allegro – Allegro con fuoco, poco più mosso – Slower – Cadenza – Allegro giusto – Poco più presto
- I O that this too too solid flesh would melt
- II To be, or not to be that is the question
Contrasts, for Trombone Solo and Concert Band (2016)
SØREN HYLDGAARD
Rapsodia Borealis: A Nordic Rhapsody for Trombone and Wind Band (2002)
JAMES STEPHENSON
Concerto Braziliano for Solo Trombone and Wind Ensemble (2006)
NIGEL CLARKE
Outrageous Fortune (Symphony No. 2) for Trombone Soloist, Actor and Wind Ensemble (2016)
FIRST RECORDINGS
MusicWeb International :
‘Clarke certainly knows how to draw the maximum in terms of garish colour and unusual texture from this ensemble. I caught some almost Sibelian figures in the flutes.[…]
Brett Baker’s playing is a treat in itself and the disc as a whole constitutes an impressive calling card for his abundant talents.’
—Richard Hanlon, MusicWeb International