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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Cy Oliver Arranger: Alan Fernie
Big Band Swing ! - duration 3.05
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Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Jacon de Haan
A musical description of a journey in covered wagon through the Wild West - and a good one too !
This fantasy tells the story of Oregon, one of Americas north-western states. Traveling by train on the Northern Pacific Railroad, the listener is taken through the fascinating Oregon landscape. Indians, cowboys, golddiggers and hooded wagons will file past on this adventurous journey. The piece has some similarities with a soundtrack of a movie. Various melodies, which could be the main themes of a movie, pass the review.The piece begins in a slow movement, introducing the first theme in minor. Then we hear in the following fast movement the trombones imitate the train, whistling the steam-flute. We hear the characteristic minor theme again, but now in different variants(also in major). The rythmic structure of "western" stile and rock succeed each other. This is leading to the slow movement, where the signals of horns and trumpets introduce a wonderful vocal melody. After this characteristic melody, the fast movement appears shortly again, the trombones whistling the steam-flute again (now in major). We hear also some musical elements, that plays a part in the following Presto. Barchanges, jazzy chords, interesting rhytmic patterns (with bongo) and an original theme are the characteristics of this Presto. After this, the horns announce the last section of the piece. Interesting is the fact that we hear in this Allegro section a variant of the vocal melody in the slow movement. Also the Presto theme returns shortly, followed by the Allargando, which is a grand characteristic end of a soundtrack. The movie of our travelling fantasy has come to an end.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Philip Sparke
Orient Express, by Philip Sparke, is available on the CD 'Around The World In Eighty Minutes' by The Rigid Containers Group Band, conducted by John Berryman.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Anton Bruckner Arranger: Philip Littlemore
Duration 2.40
Bruckner's four-part setting Os Justi was completed in 1879, the same year that he began work on the sixth symphony. He created an extraordinary motet in the Lydian mode, which achieves striking harmonic effects without using either a sharp or a flat. It concludes with a plainchant Alleluia.
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC Composer: Alan Fernie
Duration 5.37
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