This album from Naxos’s acclaimed Wind Band Classics series presents three highly contrasting new works. David Maslanka’s Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble is a heartfelt memorial to the late Christine Nield Capote, flutist, teacher and friend of the composer and the trombonist Tim Conner. Michael Daugherty’s Ladder to the Moon, inspired by the urban landscapes of Georgia O’Keeffe, recreates the feeling of skyscrapers and cityscapes in Manhattan of the 1930s. In Christopher Rouse’s Wolf Rounds ‘circular’ musical ideas constantly metamorphose, suggesting to the composer the wolf’s predatory rounds.