North Texas Wind Symphony ; Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor
Compact discs.
Biographical information about conductor and ensemble ([8] p.) laid in container.
"This CD set contains premier recordings of 40 of the most significant works ever composed for band, grades 2 and 3, as selected by world-renowned educators and conductors ... For more information about each piece, as well as conducting insights, refer to the book Teaching Music through Performance in Band, Volume 4"--Container.
Disc 1 : Grade 2. A ballad, theme and variations / Nelhybel (8:10) -- A child's embrace / Young (4:23) -- Aztec dance / Story (1:38) -- Bosnian folk songs / Allen (4:43) -- British Isles suite / Daehn (6:28) -- Caprice / Himes (4:09) -- Cumberland cross / Strommen (3:35) -- Flurry for winds and percussion / Kinyon (2:12) -- Harvest hymn / Grainger ; arr. Kreines (3:18) -- Kachina : chant and spirit dance / McGinty (2:21) -- Lion of Lucerne / Curnow (6:24) -- Old churches / Colgrass (5:17) -- Overture on a minstrel tune / La Plante (3:54) -- Russian folk fantasy / Curnow (3:59) --
Disc 2 : grades 2 & 3. Songs of the whaleman / Del Borgo (4:52) -- Three Chinese miniatures / Jager (6:30) -- Toledo / Carlson (9:41) -- Tricycle / Boysen (3:38) -- Two Hebrew folk songs / Ward (2:18) -- Variation overture / Williams (5:43) -- Angel band / Hartley (6:22) -- Black canyon of the Gunnison / Erickson (6:06) -- Bouquets / Mailman (5:11) -- Candide suite / Bernstein ; arr. Grundman (12:06) --
Disc 3 : grade 3. Concord / Grundman (5:13) -- Crystals / Duffy (6:22) -- Giles Farnaby suite / Jacob (19:25) -- If thou be near / Bach ; arr. Reed (3:35) -- In the forest of the king / La Plante (8:19) -- Military symphony in F / Gossec ; ed. Goldman and Leist (7:55) -- On a southern hymnsong / Holsinger (5:07) --
Disc 4 : grade 3. Portraits / Colonna (5:07) -- Prairie songs / La Plante (4:19) -- Prelude in the dorian mode / de Cabezon ; arr. Grainger ; ed. Brion & Brand (4:55) -- Salvation is created / Tschesnokoff ; arr. Houseknecht (3:00) -- Serenade / Bourgeois (2:41) -- Shenandoah / Ticheli (6:23) -- Sussex mummers Christmas carol / Grainger ; arr. Goldman (4:07) -- Ukrainian folksongs / Stevens ; arr. Schaefer (13:09) -- Walls of Zion / Danner (6:54)