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March 2005 |
Magic Horn, Canadian Brass,
CD, Opening Day Productions, 55:54 minutes
By Alidė Kohlhaas
Brass music usually invites memories of lazy Sunday afternoons spent near a park band shell with a military band playing marches and popular tunes. The Canadian Brass is something entirely different, although I surely wouldn't mind spending a lazy summer's afternoon in a park listening to this group. One of the reasons is its latest CD. I greatly enjoyed listening to the Magic Horn, produced by Opening Day Recordings. It contains 18 tracks, recorded in April 2004 at St. Mary Magdalene, Toronto, and a bonus audio-visual track that captured the quintet at the Elora Gorge, filmed by Rhombus Media.
In 2003, St. Catharines native and Burlington resident Stuart Laughton (trumpet), returned to the group he helped to form 35 years ago. He and his colleagues, Charles Daellenbach (tuba), Josef Burgstaller (trumpet), Eugene Watts (trombone), and Jeff Nelsen (horn), can play just about any kind of music and do justice to it. The audio-visual track (19) is a tribute to the late Michael Kamen, a former member of Canadian Brass. Absolutely stunning in sound and picture, it shows why Elora is such a fine space to hold a summer music festival.
Featured on Magic Horn are music as varied as a Motown song, With You I'm Born Again; Piazzolla tangos; a Paganini Caprice; music composed by one of Canada's favorite conductors, Bramwell Tovey; a Vivaldi-Bach concerto; as well as music by Mozart, Frescobaldi, Handel and Duke Ellington. All of these works have been especially arranged for the orchestra, or have been composed for it. In the case of Tovey's Santa Barbara Sonata, . . .
If you can't find this CD in your local music store, go to www.canadianbrass.com or www.openingday.com
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