Onyx Brass - Transatlantic [CD] picture disc Label: IPTAMENOS DISCOS

Label: IPTAMENOS DISCOS

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Onyx Brass - Transatlantic [CD] picture disc Label: IPTAMENOS DISCOSThis album combines pieces for the core quintet of Onyx Brass with works for extended brass forces, plus piano in the case of Florence Price's Octet for Brasses and Piano. The majority of the pieces here receive their first commercial recording, the two Britten premieres bringing two long forgotten pieces out of the Britten Pears Archive, in Aldeburgh, into the sunlight. Alongside these new discoveries are performances of established favourites by Sir