Foster / Chestnut Brass Company: Foster Brass
Foster / Chestnut Brass Company: Foster Brass
Format: CD
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Artist: Foster / Chestnut Brass Company
Label: Naxos American
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 636943912423
Genre: Classical
In addition to touring troupes and performances on parlor pianos, much of Foster's music circulated during his lifetime in versions for brass bands. Adolphe Sax, best known today as the inventor of the saxophone, had perfected "saxhorns" in the 1840s, a matched family of conical bore brasses using the recently developed valve system, and their powerful yet sweet sound quickly came to dominate public music throughout mid-19th century America. As an adventure in musical time travel the sounds that listeners in Foster's time would have heard are duplicated on this recording by a quintet of authentic period instruments. Their unique sound is strikingly different from that of modern brasses. Additionally, at a time when the distinctions between classical and popular music were less marked than today, their performers would have blended elements of classical, popular and folk traditions. Though Foster wrote few instrumental pieces himself, his sturdy melodies were regularly adapted as marches, quick steps and dance pieces by other composers, a typical practice of the time.
Tracks:
1.1 Ellen Bayne Quick Step
1.2 Bronze Bob Tail Horse Quick Step
1.3 Why, No One to Love
1.4 California Quick Step
1.5 Beautiful Dreamer
1.6 Dolly Day Quick Step
1.7 Hard Times Waltz
1.8 We Are Coming Father Abraam, 300,000 More
1.9 Colonel Meeker's Quick Step
1.10 March. My Old Kentucky Home
1.11 My Wife Is a Most Knowing Woman
1.12 Maggie By My Side Grand March
1.13 Santa Anna's Retreat from Buena Vista
1.14 Willie Schottisch
1.15 George Hart's Quick Step
1.16 Some Folks
1.17 Open Thy Lattice Love
1.18 Old Dog Tray March
1.19 Camptown Quick Step
1.20 Massa's in the Cold Ground
1.21 When This Dreadful War Is Over
1.22 Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
1.23 Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming Quick Step
1.24 Gentle Annie
1.25 Lulu Is Gone
1.26 Where Has Lula Gone
1.27 Farewell My Lily Dear Quick Step
Audio Sample:
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