Our noted collection of recordings featuring brass instruments continues with this wonderful release from the Nashville Symphony Orchestra conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero. The programme boasts two significant world premiere recordings – Brad Warnaar’s Cornet Concerto and Jennifer Higdon’s Low Brass Concerto – topped off by jazz legend Chick Corea’s popular Trombone Concerto. Boasting a remarkable track record on the Naxos label, each new release of contemporary repertoire from this conductor and orchestra has become something of a special event.
Brass Concertos
COREA • HIGDON • WARNAAR
José Sibaja, CornetJoseph Alessi, Paul Jenkins, Derek W. Hawkes, Trombones
Steven Brown, Bass trombone • Gilbert Long, Tuba
Nashville Symphony • Giancarlo Guerrero
This album represents part of Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony’s mission to expand the contemporary American concerto repertoire, with each of these three works spotlighting a different facet of the relatively underexplored brass instrument family. Brad Warnaar’s Cornet Concerto draws on a rich heritage of 19th-century band music with wit and heartfelt homage, while Chick Corea’s Trombone Concerto, his final completed composition, fuses lyricism, jazz spontaneity, and orchestral drama. Jennifer Higdon’s Low Brass Concerto honours the spirit of this orchestral section through a majestic single-movement work of clarity and resonance. All of these pieces expand the expressive possibilities of the brass concerto in ways that are both surprising and deeply engaging.
Cornet
Trombone
Trombone
Trombone
Bass trombone
Tuba
Conductor
– MusicWeb International
Tales of Hemingway
American Gothic • Once Upon a Castle
Bailey • Jacobs
Nashville Symphony
Guerrero
– Audiophile Audition ★★★★
All Things Majestic
Viola Concerto • Oboe Concerto
Díaz • Button
Nashville Symphony
Guerrero
– Fanfare
Three Places of Enlightenment
Veil of Tears
Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra
Laube
Nashville Symphony
Guerrero
– MusicWeb International








































