Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I know I uploaded the orchestra version just a little bit ago, but I had to get the original version for band up here too. I've been on a marathon of listening to band music, and I just love the amount of amazing music these newer younger composers are writing to add to the band literature. This is one of the best works in what we call the 'staple' of band literature, meaning one of the most well known.
(yes, I know the London Symphony Orchestra recording still towers over the others, but in this one we get to see the composer's pure vision with the original wind ensemble version. This is still godly amazing tho, so enjoy.)
COMPOSER: Johan de Meij
CONDUCTOR: Arie van Beek
BAND: Amsterdam Wind Orchestra
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - I. Gandalf
6:10 - II. Lothlórien
13:37 - III. Gollum
23:30 - IV. Journey in the Dark
32:22 - V. Hobbits
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I know I uploaded the orchestra version just a little bit ago, but I had to get the original version for band up here too. I've been on a marathon of listening to band music, and I just love the amount of amazing music these newer younger composers are writing to add to the band literature. This is one of the best works in what we call the 'staple' of band literature, meaning one of the most well known.
(yes, I know the London Symphony Orchestra recording still towers over the others, but in this one we get to see the composer's pure vision with the original wind ensemble version. This is still godly amazing tho, so enjoy.)
COMPOSER: Johan de Meij
CONDUCTOR: Arie van Beek
BAND: Amsterdam Wind Orchestra
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - I. Gandalf
6:10 - II. Lothlórien
13:37 - III. Gollum
23:30 - IV. Journey in the Dark
32:22 - V. Hobbits
Please be aware that all of the music (and images) featured in this video belong to their respective owners, and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. I upload these solely for archiving purposes, and for the sharing and enjoyment of great music. Monetization is not enabled. If you are the rightful owner of copyrighted material used and would like the video removed from YouTube, please, instead of reporting/striking my channel, leave a comment below with your statement and I will take the video down effective immediately.
![Sarah Kirkland Snider — The Reserved, The Reticent (2004) [w/ score]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ULDvP2jDTIo/mqdefault.jpg "Sarah Kirkland Snider — The Reserved, The Reticent (2004) [w/ score]
Snider writes in the program notes of this wonderful work for solo cello:
I wrote this piece in my first year of graduate study at Yale. I wanted to create a lyrical, ruminative, single-movement narrative for solo cello, an instrument I had studied as a child and often longed to play. The music was inspired by this passage from As One Put Drunk Into the Packet-Boat, a poem by John Ashbery.
COMPOSER: Sarah Kirkland Snider
CELLO: Hrant Parsamian
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![John Mackey — Juba (2003) [w/ score]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UbW689sEazc/mqdefault.jpg "John Mackey — Juba (2003) [w/ score]
John Mackey’s intense, rhythmically driving “Juba,” for electric string quartet and percussion, was commissioned by and written in collaboration with dancer, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Robert Battle. Mackey and Battle have had many music-dance collaborations over the years, with many other pieces in Mackey’s catalog created in this collaboration like “Strange Humors” and “Mass.”
Mackey writes in the program notes of this work:
“Robert wanted something aggressive. His only specific musical request was that the work have a ‘Rite of Spring’ sort of nastiness, with repeated eighth-notes and featuring syncopated accents. Robert also wanted percussion, and although I was initially reluctant to incorporate it – almost all of our works have featured percussion – I relented, and Robert was, as usual, completely right. As you’ll hear, this piece wouldn’t be the same without the percussion, and specifically, the amazing playing of Damien Bassman. (Yes, these are real, live musicians. No synths here.) The first movement is full of ‘power chords,’ with those repeated eighth-notes that Robert requested. The second movement allows the dancers to catch their breath briefly before the final movement, a rhythmically dense and virtuosic 7-minute crescendo of raw energy.”
COMPOSER: John Mackey
ENSEMBLE:
Vesselin Gellev, violin
Annaliesa Place, violin
Ralph Farris, viola
Rebecca Patterson, cello
Damien Bassman, percussion
TRACKLIST:
0:00 - Introduction
0:13 - I.
5:18 - II.
7:30 - III.
Please be aware that all of the music (and images) featured in this video belong to their respective owners, and I or this channel does not claim any right over them. I upload these solely for archiving purposes, and for the sharing and enjoyment of great music. Monetization is not enabled. If you are the rightful owner of copyrighted material used and would like the video removed from YouTube, please, instead of reporting/striking my channel, leave a comment below with your statement and I will take the video down effective immediately.
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