This week, music for winds, brass, and percussion--aka, the Wind Ensemble, from Eastman School of Music, the home of the first wind ensemble. Featuring the music of our guest, composer and Professor of Composition at Eastman, Robert Morris.
Hosts: Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Diana Rosenblum, Aristéa Mellos, Nick Morandi
Octet, mvt I: Sinfonia by Igor Stravinsky
Performers: Eastman Wind Ensemble, cond. Mark Davis Scatterday
De Staat (excerpt) by Louis Andriessen
Performers: Schoenberg Ensemble, cond. Reinbert de Leeuw
Concerto for Piano and Winds by Robert Morris
Performers: Daniel Pesca, piano, with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, cond. Mark Davis Scatterday
Mantras (excerpt) by Narong Prangcharoen
Performers: Chien-Kwan Lin, saxophone, with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, cond. Mark Davis Scatterday