“The National Brass Ensemble is comprised of twenty-six of the finest brass players in major orchestras across the US. “Gabrieli”, featuring the NBE, includes 15 pieces from the Italian composer’s highly influential Sacrae Symphoniae (1597), arranged for this ensemble by San Francisco Symphony trombonist Tim Higgins, and the debut of Music for Brass, a new work by celebrated film composer John Williams. The inspiration for this recording comes from a historic, Grammy Award-winning recording, The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli, featuring the legendary brass ensembles of the Chicago Symphony and the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. It has been long admired as the definitive modern performance of Giovanni Gabrieli’s works.”
Go and buy this album immediately. This is a one that should be in your library. This was recorded in 2014 and just came out with arrangements from Tim Higgins. The performance is exceptional. The album itself is an homage to the now revered The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli recorded in 1968. The album is all Gabrieli with the exception of a new work from John Williams called Music for Brass. It serves as a nice juxtaposition to the rest of the album.
If you need more convincing, we listed the roster below with a sample.
Roster
Trumpets
David Bilger
Jeff Curnow
Tom Hooten
Mark Inouye
Adam Luftman
Chris Martin
Mike Martin
Tom Rolfs
Michael Sachs
Horns
Richard King
Jennifer Montone
Jamie Sommerville
Robert Ward
Gail Williams
Trombones
Joe Alessi
Nitzan Haroz
Tim Higgins
Massimo La Rosa
Michael Mulcahy
Bass Trombones
Randy Hawes
Jim Markey
Tubas
Gene Pokorny
Mike Roylance
Yasuhito Sugiyama
A sample from the album
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