Credits:

Clarke(1960-)

Description:

British composer Nigel Clarke reigns supreme as one of the premier wind band composers, having been Composer-in-Residence for the Black Dyke Mills Band in 1994. The album includes "Dial "H" for Hitchcock," inspired by a documentary film by famed filmmaker Hitchcock; "Swift Severn Flood," a scene from Shakespeare's "Henry IV"; four pieces by Belgian Symbolist painter René Magritte Mystery of the Horizon," based on a painting, and "Earthrise," inspired by a photograph of the earth taken by Apollo 8 astronaut William Sanders. The Grimethorpe Colliery Band, the world's premier brass band, will perform these with perfect technique. Naxos Japan