KWE Kanata Wind Ensemble
The Grand Tour
Join us for a trip around the musical world, featuring works like Fingals Cave (Scotland), Romanian Rhapsody, Variations on a Korean Folk Song and Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble
Release date: May 2023
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O Canada
"O Canada" is the national anthem of Canada
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1:18
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God Save the King
"God Save the King" is the national anthem of the United Kingdom
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0:42
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Crown Imperial
Crown Imperial is an orchestral march by William Walton, commissioned for the coronation of King George VI in Westminster Abbey in 1937.
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7:09
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Romanian Rhapsody No 1
The essence of this rhapsody is the dance.
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11:06
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Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble 1 Soaring
Our stellar tuba player, Keith Hartshorn-Walton, performs the Canadian premiere of Gary D. Ziek's exciting Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble.
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4:40
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Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble 2 Romance
Our stellar tuba player, Keith Hartshorn-Walton, performs the Canadian premiere of Gary D. Ziek's exciting Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble.
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5:47
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Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble 3 Riot
Our stellar tuba player, Keith Hartshorn-Walton, performs the Canadian premiere of Gary D. Ziek's exciting Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble.
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5:25
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Stars and Stripes Forever 163
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" is a patriotic American march written and composed by John Philip Sousa in 1896. It is the National march of the United States
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3:48
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Variations on a Korean Folk Song
A major musical piece written for concert band by John Barnes Chance in 1965. Variations consists of a set of variations on the Korean folk song "Arirang", which the composer heard while in South Korea with the U.S. Army in the l950s
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8:06
10
Suite No 2 for Small Orchestra Mvt 1
Igor Stravinsky's Suite No 2 for Small Orchestra is filled with clownish comedy and witty musical satire. Unfolding with raucous neoclassical voices and cartoonish ostinatos, these jubilant miniatures are pure fun.
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1:09
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Suite No 2 for Small Orchestra Mvt 2
Mvt 2 VALSE: Igor Stravinsky's Suite No 2 for Small Orchestra is filled with clownish comedy and witty musical satire. Unfolding with raucous neoclassical voices and cartoonish ostinatos, these jubilant miniatures are pure fun.
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1:51
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Suite No 2 for Small Orchestra Mvt 3
Mvt 3 Polka: Regarding the Polka, Stravinsky said, “It is a caricature of Diaghilev, whom I had seen as a circus trainer cracking a long whip
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1:04
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Suite No 2 for Small Orchestra Mvt 4
Mvt 4 Galop: The final movement is a romping Galop, in which a lonely and forlorn bassoon briefly intrudes on the action.
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2:03
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Gymnopedie No 1
In 1888, the eccentric French composer Erik Satie published three short, atmospheric piano solos called Gymnopédies. The first, marked “slowly with pain/grief”, is perhaps one of the most famous piano solos penned during the late Romantic era
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3:19
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Fingals Cave
Inspired by one of Mendelssohn's trips to the British Isles, specifically an 1829 excursion to the Scottish island of Staffa, with its basalt sea cave known as Fingal's Cave.
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10:04
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Liberty Bell
"The Liberty Bell" (1893) is an American military march and is also the official march of the Canadian Forces Public Affairs Branch
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3:24