The National Brass Ensemble is not a standing assembly of players but a group assembled for this particular project. Given the difficulty of getting them all together -- the players are all drawn from the brass sections of major American symphony orchestras -- it seems unlikely that you'll ever hear from the National Brass Ensemble again. That's a shame, for this is a top-notch release among the available recordings of Giovanni Gabrieli's brass ensemble music on modern instruments. Its strengths are threefold. First is just ...
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The National Brass Ensemble is not a standing assembly of players but a group assembled for this particular project. Given the difficulty of getting them all together -- the players are all drawn from the brass sections of major American symphony orchestras -- it seems unlikely that you'll ever hear from the National Brass Ensemble again. That's a shame, for this is a top-notch release among the available recordings of Giovanni Gabrieli's brass ensemble music on modern instruments. Its strengths are threefold. First is just the effortless command of the technical difficulties, which are formidable; the Gabrieli Symphoniae Sacrae of 1597 are among those musical works that exist at the boundaries of playability. Some of that aspect is lost on modern instruments, but certainly not all. Second, the sound on this release by the Oberlin Conservatory of Music is superb, and sound is a key factor with this music. The album was recorded at the Skywalker studio; how a Midwestern conservatory got the money...
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