Onyx Brass – The sun is free to flow with the sea (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:41 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NMC Recordings
Onyx Brass, described by BBC Music Magazine as “the classiest brass ensemble in Britain”, celebrate their 30th anniversary in 2023 with their second release on NMC. Since its establishment the group have been pioneers in advocating the brass quintet as a medium for excellent new chamber music, and have commissioned over 200 new works. This new album, The sun is free to flow with the sea, perfectly epitomises Onyx and their values, as a compendium of new music written specially for the quintet by some of the most renowned composers working today.
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Winchester College Chapel Choir, Onyx Brass, Benjamin Cunningham & Howard Ionascu – A Winter’s Night: Christmas Music for Choir, Brass Quintet & Organ (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:34 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
The addition of a brass ensemble to Christmas concerts and carol services, combining with the more traditional sounds of choir and organ, has become increasingly popular in recent years. This recording brings together a number of works for the specific forces of choir, brass quintet, organ and percussion, some of which have been arranged specially for this release. Interspersed amongst these works are a selection of popular Christmas carols which have formed and integral part of Winchester College Chapel Choir’s core repertoire for many years.
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Onyx Brass, John Wilson – Fanfares (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:59 minutes | 907 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Chandos
Among all the many Chandos brass recordings, each release having played a major role in the labels successful history, this one may well be the loudest.
In the vast acoustic of St Judes Church, London, rendered in surround-sound, and in the largest ensemble format to which it has ever expanded, Onyx Brass, under the energetic direction of John Wilson, brings together four dozen fanfares by fourteen British composers of the past century and a half.
Including works by Arnold, Bax, Bliss, Imogen Holst Ketèlbey, and Tippett with numerous premiere recordings, this album is an unmissable celebration of stirring, brilliant, joyous, exciting, varied, sometimes military, and always optimistic music.
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Onyx Brass & John Wilson – Festmusik – A Legacy (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:17 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Chandos
Described as “easily the classiest brass ensemble in Britain” by BBC Music Magazine, Onyx Brass continues to be the leading light in establishing the brass quintet as a medium for serious chamber music, presenting it in the entertaining and articulate style that has become the group’s trademark.
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