Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon Gee, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikel Toms – Douglas Knehans: Concertos (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:10 minutes | 581 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ablaze Records
Concertos is a disc that I and all of the artists featured on it have been working on for years. Initial recording took place in 2011 in Zlin, Czech Republic with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic. Some years separted these recordings and the more recent ones from Brno with the superb Brno Philharmonic orchestra and Mikel Toms.
The works on this disc span a period of about eight years of my creative life and move between dramatic and assertive music to music marked by fragility, tenderness and emotion. The performances are uniformly excellent and the audio quality is something about which we are proud!
For your consideration—please do think of this terrific disc when nominating season comes around!!
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Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanislav Vavřínek – Samuel A. Livingston: American Scenes & Other Works for Concert Band (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:46 minutes | 462 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Navona
AMERICAN SCENES, from composer Samuel A. Livingston is, as its title suggests, a painterly tribute to America. The album’s title piece, Three American Scenes, is a three-movement suite that expresses the grandeur of the American west, the serenity of a mountain lake at dawn, and the bustle of a busy day in a large city. The album opens with Celebrating the Fourth, which depicts an American Fourth of July celebration. The final two selections feature works for concert band with a solo instrument – the flute, in Silvertube Variations, and the clarinet, in Balkan Dance. In that last selection, Livingston turns his attention beyond our shores, to the harmonies and rhythms of the folk music of the Balkan countries, especially Bulgaria and Macedonia. Altogether, AMERICAN SCENES is thoughtfully-crafted and unabashedly jubilant, expressing appreciation for America and the world beyond with refreshing sincerity.
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Brno Philharmonic Orchestra – Orchestral Masters, Vol. 7 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:24 minutes | 870 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Ablaze Records
For this series ABLAZE will record your work with the tremendous BRNO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA or the ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by new music specialist conductor Mikel Toms. If selected, we will then record your work to ABLAZE Records award winning standards with our tremendous engineering team in Brno or Glasgow and New York. ABLAZE Records takes care of everything from planning right through to distribution and advertising.
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Brno Philharmonic Orchestra – Orchestral Masters, Vol. 8 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:24 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ablaze Records
ABLAZE Records eight volume of unique contemporary works for orchestra features Derek M. Jenkins fanciful takes on his snapshot memories of his childhood in Of Vigils and Storms; Jeremy Piper’s colorful and evocative suite on the legend of Yasparia in his Gated Mountains of Yasparia; Hong Kong composer Roger Fong’s beautiful and imagistic Rhapsody on a Night by the Maple Bridge; Heather Niemi Savage’s folk tune inspired Daughter of the Stars; Australian Sally Greenaway’s powerful and lyrically melodic Worlds Within Worlds and Marco Muilwijk’s inventively scored and gorgeously colored Fantasy for Orchestra.
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