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Nadia

WindSync

Label
Glissade Music
Release date
30 July 2026
Format
Digital
Following rave reviews from The New York Times, Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine for his album Forgotten Sounds, clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson returns to Delos with WindSync. The wind quintet, "an important force in the American chamber music landscape", has performed throughout the United States and beyond, presenting primarily self-composed repertoire – commissioned by the ensemble or arranged in-house. On this album, the musicians trace the stylistic diversity of American music back to a single source: not a founder, but a French mademoiselle, Nadia Boulanger. The composer, conductor, music theorist and legendary composition pedagogue had an immense influence on American music and musicians. The impressive list of Boulanger students heard on this album testifies to this: Philip Glass, Elliott Carter, Quincy Jones and Marion Bauer, whose Wood Wind Quintet has here been given new life and recorded for the first time. With Nadia, WindSync hopes to give Mademoiselle, as she was called by her students, a human face by telling her story through a century of music, written by both teacher and students. This legacy of breathtakingly varied American music resonates to this day.
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Tracklist

  1. 01 Prelude in F Minor (Arr. for Wind Quintet by Kara LaMoure) 05:13
  2. 02 Three Pieces (Arr. for Wind Quintet by Kara LaMoure): No. 1, Moderato 02:41
  3. 03 Three Pieces (Arr. for Wind Quintet by Kara LaMoure): No. 2, Sans vitesse et à l’aise 02:00
  4. 04 Three Pieces (Arr. for Wind Quintet by Kara LaMoure): No. 3, Vite et nerveusement rythmé 02:49
  5. 05 Woodwind Quintet, Op. 48: I. Allegro commodo 02:25
  6. 06 Woodwind Quintet, Op. 48: II. Allegro gioviale 03:48
  7. 07 Woodwind Quintet, Op. 48: III. Andante pastorale 03:55
  8. 08 Woodwind Quintet, Op. 48: IV. Allegro giocoso 02:23
  9. 09 Etude No. 17 (Arr. for Wind Quintet by Kara LaMoure) 08:00
  10. 10 Woodwind Quintet: I. Allegretto 04:20
  11. 11 Woodwind Quintet: II. Allegro giocoso 04:10
  12. 12 The Midnight Sun Will Never Set (Arr. for Wind Quintet by Owen Broder) 03:41

Source: MusicBrainz

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