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Bizet / Serebrier - Carmen Symphony
Bizet/Serebrier: Carmen Symphony
Revueltas/Serebrier: Mexican Dance
Ginastera: Estancia Suite, Op.8a
Serebrier: Night Cry
Villa-Lobos: Concerto Grosso for Wind Quartet and Wind Orchestra
Sousa: The Stars and Stripes Forever
Our Price: £5.34 (£4.64 ex VAT)
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Artist(s): ‘The President’s Own’ United States Marine Band
Conductor(s): Jose Serebrier
Release Date: 28th January 2008
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Having orchestrated Gershwin’s piano works (at the request of Gershwin’s family), numerous Grieg songs, and more recently a symphonic synthesis of Janacek’s The Markropulos Case, Jose Serebrier compiled a sequence of orchestral interludes from Bizet’s Carmen to try to extend its magic to the concert hall. Carmen Symphony, unlike the well-known Carmen Suites, follows the thread of the opera.
Serebrier has always been fascinated by the music of the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas, and Mexican Dance is his homage to this original composer. This and Serebrier’s own Night Cry are world premiere recordings.
The United States Marine Band, the oldest professional musical institution in the United States, regularly invites prominent conductors. This is a recording of a concert performance in 2007.
