Here, Wynton Marsalis switches to cornet and tries to recreate the ambience of the proverbial village wind bands of long ago -- albeit with the emphatically big-league help of Donald Hunsberger and the massive Eastman Wind Ensemble. This means a program of transcriptions of classical tunes, variations on popular ditties, dollops of sentimentality, ...
Originally released by Columbia Masterworks in 1983, Wynton Marsalis' debut album of Classical trumpet concertos appears in Sony's Great Performances series with what seems to be the label's nod to his phenomenal success and gratitude for a job well done. But what was once a perfectly fine, attractive recording from the sensational trumpeter's ...
Sony's 2007 holiday offering The Ultimate Classical Christmas presents a highly varied program of traditional carols and modern seasonal songs that serves equally well as a sampler of the label's biggest stars, including soprano Kathleen Battle, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, tenors Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras, ...
Recorded in 1987, Wynton Marsalis' brilliant Baroque Music for Trumpets is given a new lease on shelf-life in this 2005 Sony reissue. On the positive side, the label recognizes the tremendous artistic and commercial value of Marsalis' virtuosic forays into Baroque music with Raymond Leppard and the English Chamber Orchestra, and seems to ...
The classical career of celebrated jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis began with major fanfare with his 1984 recording of the Haydn and Hummel trumpet concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra. The momentum carried Marsalis through some high-profile concertizing and through the three albums included in this box set. One might say things fizzled out ...
The Sony label seems to be betting it can set a new recycling record with these many-times-reissued Handel performances, which go back as far as 1960. Handel's big choruses stand up to being done by the likes of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Royal Philharmonic Chorus heard here (the latter in the "Hallelujah" chorus), for they were meant as big ...
Opinions vary over Wynton Marsalis' contributions to the field of jazz, but there is little controversy over his exceptional classical performances, which are well documented on this satisfying twofer from Sony. Covering a period from 1984 to 2003, this survey provides representative samples from Marsalis' best-selling classical and crossover ...
Sony touts its compilation album Music for Weddings as "a must for anyone planning to get married." It does indeed include most of the classical standards traditionally played at American weddings. The notes indicate that the music on the album is divided into four categories: processionals, hymns for the service, songs for the signing of the ...
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