
Occasionally you hear a commentator use the term “accessible” to describe a musical work or style. Yet, as with other terms such as “affordable” in
Paul Taffanel’s Wind Quintet is a lovely, tuneful work beautifully written for the ensemble, and full of interesting sonorities for the five players. It sounds
John Williams’ 1985 Tuba Concerto inevitably brings to mind his ubiquitous film music, the most obvious connection being the Mothership duet from Close Encounters (there’s
You would think that an entire hour of music for oboe, clarinet, and bassoon would inevitably become monotonous, and it’s true that playing this disc