Klavier's Celebration achieves what some other producers of symphonic band CDs have repeatedly tried, only to come up short: to prepare a program of frontline, major symphonic band literature as performed by an expert band in great sound and a more-or-less perfect performance. Klavier had a little help in this enterprise, as this disc -- featuring the U.S. Air Force Band under Col. Lowell Graham -- was originally made for the U.S. Air Force's own label and released in 1997, though that was intended for military personnel ...
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Klavier's Celebration achieves what some other producers of symphonic band CDs have repeatedly tried, only to come up short: to prepare a program of frontline, major symphonic band literature as performed by an expert band in great sound and a more-or-less perfect performance. Klavier had a little help in this enterprise, as this disc -- featuring the U.S. Air Force Band under Col. Lowell Graham -- was originally made for the U.S. Air Force's own label and released in 1997, though that was intended for military personnel only and never for the public at large. It's such a good recording that it seems a shame to keep it under wraps, and Klavier has done well to make this release generally available. Most of the music here will be familiar to those who follow American band rep; it includes Copland's An Outdoor Overture, William Schuman's ubiquitous New England Triptych, Holst's Hammersmith Prelude and Scherzo, Robert Russell Bennett's so-called Suite of Old American Dances, and finally the title work,...
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