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Noseda has done a great job with the National Symphony.
The board of the Kennedy Center tend to be jerks. Over the years they have done a poor job with the orchestra. One of their greatest stunts was when they drove out Slatkin.
Noseda has adopted a neat trick to protect himself. He owns several rare highly valuable string instruments that he has loaned to members of the orchestra. If the board drive him out, the instruments go with him.
Under the NSO label, they have issued some interesting recordings. For those who like contemporary music, this is awesome:

[Maestro267]

Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Janacek: Taras Bulba
NDRSO/Gardiner

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies (complete)
Misha Dichter (piano)

[André]

Orchestral songs by Joseph Marx, Braunfels, Korngold and Pfitzner.



2 disc set of sonatas.

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I have been catching up on the recordings I have purchased the past few months (We move to a new house and the unpacking is taking us awhile. Finally found the box with the unlistened CD's)



This has some neat band works that please the 'band junkie'.

John Williams: For the President's Own. This is a work that Williams composed for the Marine Band. The following is a you tube of Williams conducting the Marine Band:

I am frustrated listening to all the negative waves concerning Williams.

Gernot Wolfgang: Three Short Stories. Wolfgang is a new composer for me. He is an Austrian-Jazz composer. It appears to me that Europe now produces Jazz composers and performers that are just as good as those produced by the good old USA. I found a performance of "Birdland" by a Finnish Jazz group that is awesome.

Bruce Broughton: In the World of Spirits. Broughton is a very active classical composer. He has composed many works for concert band. I play with the City of Fairfax Band. A few years ago, we premiered a band work he composed for us.

John Mackey: The Ringmasters March
Michael Daughterty: Winter Dreams
John Mackey: Wine Dark Sea

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Okay, I've caved to peer pressure (only digital, right now):

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Another great CD for the band junkie.



Following notes copied from the album

Contents

Williams, John: For The President's Own
Work length4:25

Note: Persichetti Psalm.  The final allegro section of the Psalm has a tempo marking of ¼note=152.  This is one of the few performances where the music was performed at 152.  Most performances are slower.
President's Own United States Marine Band
Jason K. Fettig
Schuman: New England Triptych: Three Pieces for Orchestra After William Billings
Work length17:01
President's Own United States Marine Band
Jason K. Fettig
I. Be Glad Then, America
Track length5:15

II. When Jesus Wept
Track length5:38

III. Chester
Track length6:08

Charles Ives, Jonathan Elkus: Memories, Very Pleasant & Rather Sad (A Charles Ives Song Set)
Work length9:56

Sara Dell'Omo
President's Own United States Marine Band
Jason K. Fettig
I. Remembrance
Track length0:44

IIa. Memories [Very Pleasant]
Track length0:38

IIb. Memories [Rather Sad]
Track length1:37

III. The Circus Band
Track length2:08

IV. The Things Our Fathers Loved
Track length1:39

V. Old Home Day
Track length3:10

Bennett, Robert: Symphonic Songs for Band
Work length13:33

President's Own United States Marine Band
Jason K. Fettig
I. Serenade
Track length4:16

II. Spiritual
Track length4:36

III. Celebration
Track length4:41

Persichetti: Psalm for Band, Op. 53
Work length7:50

President's Own United States Marine Band
Jason K. Fettig
Excerpt,Copland: Symphony No. 3
Work length13:30
$3.00

President's Own United States Marine Band
Jason K. Fettig
IV. Finale. Molto deliberato (Arr. D. Patterson for Wind Ensemble)
Track length13:30
$3.00

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While the collection of music on this recording was composed during only the last hundred years, it draws from sources and traditions that span from the American Revolution to the present, celebrating the New World's musical vernacular with spirituals, fiddle tunes, cowboy ballads, and rags.
"Be Glad Then, America" takes its title from William Schuman's New England Triptych, which used as its point of departure the religious choral writing of William Billings, one of the grandfathers of American music. Two other repertoire pillars fill out the album, Persichetti's Psalm for Band and Bennett's Symphonic Songs.
Complementing these classic works are three world première recordings: the exuberant For 'The President's Own' by John Williams, a set of selected Charles Ives songs arranged for the President's Own, and a transcription of the glorious final movement of Aaron Copland's Third Symphony, which restores music cut from the Symphony soon after its early orchestral performances.

I have other recordings of:
For the President's Own
New England Triptych
Symphonic Songs
Psalm

I think these are best performances in my library.

The Marine Band brass are awesome performing the fanfare in the Copland.

Note: Persichetti Psalm.  The final allegro section of the Psalm has a tempo marking of ¼note=152.  This is one of the few performances where the music was performed at 152.  Most performances are slower.

[Maestro267]

Weinberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 21
CBSO/Grazintye-Tyla

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Another band junkie acquisition:






Awesome contrabassoon solo in Sasparilla

[Florestan]

Franz von Suppe - Overtures (Naxos, 6 CDs)
Franz von Suppe - Waltzes, Marches, Polkas (Naxos, 1 CD)
Emile Waldteufel - The Best Of (Naxos, 11 CDs)

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Franz von Suppe - Overtures (Naxos, 6 CDs)
Franz von Suppe - Waltzes, Marches, Polkas (Naxos, 1 CD)
Emile Waldteufel - The Best Of (Naxos, 11 CDs)

Hmm, it's missing the Giuliani.   

[Florestan]

Hmm, it's missing the Giuliani.   

It's on seek-and-capture mode. 

[ChamberNut]

It's on seek-and-capture mode. 

You can sample a minute of each track at Presto before committing to see if will be your cup of tea. ☕

[Florestan]

You can sample a minute of each track at Presto before committing to see if will be your cup of tea. ☕

I think it's on Spotify.

[Madiel]

You can sample a minute of each track at Presto before committing to see if will be your cup of tea. ☕

A minute? These days iTunes typically provides 90 seconds.

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John Mackey has been an effective concert band composer over the last ten years.
Gia has a issued a series of CD's dedicated to a specific composer. I have previously purchased the one dedicated to Donald Grantham.
Although I already have a few of these works on other CD's, this fills in most of my gaps.

FOLLOW UP NOTE: The work that has been really blowing me away is The Frozen Cathedral.  I am on the fourth listen through 

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At first sight I read CIA Composer's Collection. 

[Madiel]

At first sight I read CIA Composer's Collection. 

Would be a heck of a cover story.

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All of these were bought within the last couple of weeks:

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Unsurprisingly ...