Recoil by Joseph Schwantner

This recording by the Royal Australian Navy Band was undertaken in September 2010 and released in 2011 on the CD titled ‘A Flagship Recital Mk IV’.
Conductor: Commander Phillip Charles Anderson OAM RAN, Director of Music Navy
Recoil was commissioned through the Raymond and Beverly Sackler New Music Foundation by the University of Connecticut.
Schwantner writes:
“Recoil is my fourth work for wind ensemble in a series of pieces that span twenty-nine years. The other works are: and the mountains rising nowhere (1977), From a Dark Millennium (1980), and In evening's stillness (1996). While Recoil employs a larger instrumentation than the earlier works, they all share similar characteristics in that each is framed in a single continuous movement and each exploit the rich timbral resources of an expanded percussion section that includes amplified piano.”
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