| Beautiful Weddings Ceremony Beautiful Wedding - Ceremony - Handel, Bach, Vivaldi, Etc / Ozawa, Pearlman, Levi, Empire Brass Et Al CD (2008)
 $8.49  |
| Berkshire Boy Choir Bernstein Century - Bernstein: Mass CDs (1997)
$16.05  |
| Complete Wedding Album There Is Love Complete Wedding Album - There Is Love CDs (1998)
$15.05 |
| Michael Murray Ceremonial Music For Trumpet And Organ / Smedvig, Murray CD (1993)
$9.15  |
| Empire Brass Music For Organ, Brass & Percussion CD (1990)
Rolf Smedvig classical music
$9.29 |
| Telarc Collection 2 Telarc Collection Vol 2 CD (1992)
Rolf Smedvig Performer
$7.79 |
| Empire Brass Quintet Passage 138 B.C.-A.D. 1611 CD (1994)
Rolf Smedvig Performer
$15.05
Since there is a deep connection between brass instruments and fanfares and another connection between fanfares and the Middle Ages (think jousting), the album's concept, eclectic as it is, actually works. On this disc, Empire Brass Quintet explores modal music wiht the aid of two vocalists, a guitarist, a bassist, a synthesizer player and a percussionist. Although Gregorian chant and Hildegard von Bingen put in an appearance, this is not the stereotypical collection of soothing yet depressing chants. This music is played faster than that and carries a high drama, as on "De Profundis (From the Depths)," which features a martial percussion track and equally high-colored brass. You'd think with the synthesizer and the bass and the soft-focus recording that we were in danger of new age blandness here, but things never come to that. The composition of music in the West was dominated by this system for 1100 years, from circa 400 C.E. to 1500 C.E., although it originated earlier and lasted longer in some places. Many people do not realize that the major and minor keys are but vestiges of a system of eight modes devised by the ancient Greeks. This piece could almost be an anthem at the Olympics.
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| Telarc Collection 10 Telarc Collection, Vol. 10 CD (1994)
Rolf Smedvig classical music
$7.79  |
| Virtuoso / Rolf Smedvig CD (2000)
Rolf Smedvig Performer
$9.29
Founder & First Trumpet Of The Empire Brass Quintet;Compilat.
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| Haydn Trumpet Concertos CD (1990)
Rolf Smedvig classical music
$9.29 |
| Best Of Bach CD (2001)
Rolf Smedvig Performer
$9.29
Boston Baroque,Atlanta Sym. Orch+Chamber Chorus,Kunzel++
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| Empire Brass Plays Bernstein, Gershwin & Tilson Thomas CD (1990)
Rolf Smedvig classical music
$15.05 |
| Romantic Brass - Music Of France And Spain / Empire Brass CD (1992)
Rolf Smedvig Performer
$15.05 |
| Bach Classics - Virtuoso Trumpet / Smedvig, Ling, Scottish Co CD (1993)
Rolf Smedvig classical music
$9.95 |
| Handel Bars: Popular Works Of George Frideric Handel CD (1994)
Rolf Smedvig classical music
$9.29 |
| Classics For All Seasons - Spring CD (1992)
$9.29 |
| Empire Brass Quintet Mozart For Brass CD (1993)
$15.05 |
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