The Absolute Sound 40th Anniversary Best Sounding Music!
Blu-Ray Disc plays on Blu-Ray Players ONLY! This Blu-Ray is All Regions: Region A, B & C!
The years before, during and after the French Revolution were a turning-point for wind ensembles throughout the world. They developed from being small ensembles, with each instrument represented in pairs, to being something much larger. At the same time, the repertoire moved rapidly from the chamber music for wind instruments of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven to much larger works of almost orchestral dimensions by a new generation of composers.
The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces has on this recording chosen music by composers who all made significant contributions to the evolvement of the wind orchestra and to the literature for wind orchestra that we know today. The music is an exquisite selection of French drama, romance and epic tone poems composed at times of considerable political turbulence. It could be precisely this political backdrop, combined with the wind orchestra's hitherto unexplored potential, that goes some way towards explaining why composers like Berlioz, Bozza, Saint-Saëns, Tomasi, Dukas and Milhaud chose to write large-scale works for the wind orchestra - works that are still considered an important part of the standard wind ensemble repertoire today, a repertoire the Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces performs with the elegance, virtuosity and energy the music demands; The Triumphal Way!
This Pure Audio Blu-ray Disc has been designed to offer two ways of operation, either with or without a TV screen: you can either navigate the on-screen POP-UP MENU or simply use the dedicated buttons of your remote control. The NUMERIC keys directly access the corresponding track number and the desired audio stream can be selected by the colored keys on your remote. 5.0 DT S HD Master Audio is preselected. These functions are developed by msm-studios and Lindberg Lyd and anticipate what 2L expects to find in the future profile 3 for Blu-ray players.
Blu-Ray: The HD images on the Blu-ray relates neither to NTSC nor PAL; all HD-ready or Full-HD TV-screens will by HDMI accept the on-screen menu. There are no regional restrictions on this Blu-ray disc.
Features:
Disc 1: Hybrid Super Audio-CD 5.1 Surround + Stereo
• 2.0 DSD
• 5.1 DSD
The hybrid SACD looks like a normal CD and plays on all standard players and computers.
Produced in DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition - 24BIT/352.8kHz)
Disc 2: Blu-ray 5.1 Surround + Stereo
• PureAudio
• All Regions: Region A, B & C
• 2.0 LPCM 192kHz/24bit Stereo
• 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio 192kHz/24bit
Musicians:
Norwegian Armed Forces Staff Band
Ole Kristian Ruud, conductor
Selections:
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Grande Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale
1. I. Marche funebre
2. II. Oraison funebre
3. III. Apotheose
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
4. Orient et occident, Op. 25 (arr. for wind ensemble)
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
5. Fanfare pour preceder La Peri
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Suite Francaise
6. I. Normandie
7. II. Bretagne
8. III. Ile de France
9. IV. Alasce-Lorraine
10. V. Provence
Henri Tomasi (1901-1971)
Fanfares Liturgiques
11. No. 1 Annonciation
12. No. 2 Evangile
13. No. 3. Apocalypse: Scherzo
14. No. 4. Procession du Vendredi-Saint
Eugene Bozza (1905-1991)
15. Children's Overture
Recorded November 2011 at Jar church, Norway.
Original source: DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
Blu-Ray Disc plays on Blu-Ray Players ONLY! This Blu-Ray is All Regions: Region A, B & C!
The years before, during and after the French Revolution were a turning-point for wind ensembles throughout the world. They developed from being small ensembles, with each instrument represented in pairs, to being something much larger. At the same time, the repertoire moved rapidly from the chamber music for wind instruments of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven to much larger works of almost orchestral dimensions by a new generation of composers.
The Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces has on this recording chosen music by composers who all made significant contributions to the evolvement of the wind orchestra and to the literature for wind orchestra that we know today. The music is an exquisite selection of French drama, romance and epic tone poems composed at times of considerable political turbulence. It could be precisely this political backdrop, combined with the wind orchestra's hitherto unexplored potential, that goes some way towards explaining why composers like Berlioz, Bozza, Saint-Saëns, Tomasi, Dukas and Milhaud chose to write large-scale works for the wind orchestra - works that are still considered an important part of the standard wind ensemble repertoire today, a repertoire the Staff Band of the Norwegian Armed Forces performs with the elegance, virtuosity and energy the music demands; The Triumphal Way!
This Pure Audio Blu-ray Disc has been designed to offer two ways of operation, either with or without a TV screen: you can either navigate the on-screen POP-UP MENU or simply use the dedicated buttons of your remote control. The NUMERIC keys directly access the corresponding track number and the desired audio stream can be selected by the colored keys on your remote. 5.0 DT S HD Master Audio is preselected. These functions are developed by msm-studios and Lindberg Lyd and anticipate what 2L expects to find in the future profile 3 for Blu-ray players.
Blu-Ray: The HD images on the Blu-ray relates neither to NTSC nor PAL; all HD-ready or Full-HD TV-screens will by HDMI accept the on-screen menu. There are no regional restrictions on this Blu-ray disc.
Features:
Disc 1: Hybrid Super Audio-CD 5.1 Surround + Stereo
• 2.0 DSD
• 5.1 DSD
The hybrid SACD looks like a normal CD and plays on all standard players and computers.
Produced in DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition - 24BIT/352.8kHz)
Disc 2: Blu-ray 5.1 Surround + Stereo
• PureAudio
• All Regions: Region A, B & C
• 2.0 LPCM 192kHz/24bit Stereo
• 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio 192kHz/24bit
Musicians:
Norwegian Armed Forces Staff Band
Ole Kristian Ruud, conductor
Selections:
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Grande Symphonie Funebre et Triomphale
1. I. Marche funebre
2. II. Oraison funebre
3. III. Apotheose
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
4. Orient et occident, Op. 25 (arr. for wind ensemble)
Paul Dukas (1865-1935)
5. Fanfare pour preceder La Peri
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)
Suite Francaise
6. I. Normandie
7. II. Bretagne
8. III. Ile de France
9. IV. Alasce-Lorraine
10. V. Provence
Henri Tomasi (1901-1971)
Fanfares Liturgiques
11. No. 1 Annonciation
12. No. 2 Evangile
13. No. 3. Apocalypse: Scherzo
14. No. 4. Procession du Vendredi-Saint
Eugene Bozza (1905-1991)
15. Children's Overture
Recorded November 2011 at Jar church, Norway.
Original source: DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)
