Peter Fischer: Complete Music for Wind Ensemble

The four works for symphonic wind band composed by Peter Fischer – born in 1956, across the bay from San Francisco, in Martinez, California – are almost textbook examples of American eclecticism, mixing inner-city vibrancy with a sense of the timeless outdoors, bringing in flavours from jazz and rock and moving easily between vigorous dance-rhythms and sultry nightscapes. Dance, indeed, lies at the heart of most of this music, which gives the mambo, the tango, the tarantella and the waltz a new and spirited twist amid echoes of Stravinsky, Revueltas and Bernstein.

Jens Lindemann, cornet (track 2), flügelhorn (track 3), trumpet (track 4)
Middle Tennessee State University Wind Ensemble
Reed Thomas, conductor