Composer: Jonthan Bingham, Arturo Sandoval, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner
Performer: National Brass Ensemble, Eun Sun Kim
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Catalogue: PTC5187049
Release: 2023
Size: 3.41 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
01. Strauss: Fanfare für Wiener Philharmoniker, Op. 109
02. Bingham: Deified
Sandoval: Brass Fantasy
03. I. Fanfare
04. II.
05. III.
06. IV.
CD 02
Wagner: Das Rheingold
01. I. The Rhine
02. I. From Walhalla to Nibelheim and Back
Wagner: Die Walküre
03. II. Siegmund’s Flight
04. II. Love Theme
05. II. Hunding’s Arrival
06. II. Wotan and Brünnhilde’s Arrival
07. II. Siegmund’s Death
08. II. Ride of the Valkyries
09. II. Wotan’s Goodbye and Magic Fire Music
Wagner: Siegfried
10. III. Siegfried and Mime
11. III. Forest Murmurings
12. III. Siegfried’s Horn Call
13. III. Siegfried Slays the Dragon
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
14. IV. Dawn – Brünnhilde and Siegfried
15. IV. Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
16. IV. Hagen’s Watch Call
17. IV. Siegfried and the Rhinemaidens
18. IV. Siegfried’s Death and Goodbye
19. IV. Siegfried’s Funeral March
20. IV. Brünnhilde Returns the Ring
The National Brass Ensemble (NBE) and conductor Eun Sun Kim present Deified, an album containing music by Wagner and Strauss, as well as world premiere recordings of pieces by Jonathan Bingham and Arturo Sandoval. Bingham won the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and San Francisco Symphony’s Emerging Black Composers Project competition with his cinematic composition Deified, while composer/trumpet player Sandoval is a legend in the brass world. The longest piece on this album is Timothy Higgins’s The Ring, a virtuosic recomposition of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen scored for brass ensemble. Together, these pieces showcase the exceptional coloristic and expressive range of brass music. Consisting of some of the best players from leading U.S. orchestras, the National Brass Ensemble is one of the greatest brass groups of our time. Eun Sun Kim is Caroline H. Hume Music Director of the San Francisco Opera, and frequents the most important opera houses and concert halls of the world. The NBE and Kim both make their Pentatone debut.