Nielsen - Nearer, My God, to Thee for 10-part Brass Ensemble, Organ, Timpani & Percussion

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Nielsen - Nearer, My God, to Thee for 10-part Brass Ensemble, Organ, Timpani & PercussionNearer, My God, to Thee, a paraphrase of the Hymn by Carl Nielsen arranged for 10 part Brass Ensemble, Organ, Timpani and Percussion by Niels Ole Bo Johansen. The Titanic disaster in 1912 shook the whole world and soon after, a Danish committee decided to produce a charity concert for the Danish victims of the catastrophe. Supposedly, the Hymn Bethany by Lowell Mason (1792 1872) better known as Nearer, My God, to Thee with text by Sarah F. Adams (1805

Armstrong's arrangement is licensed to Cherry Classics by Alfred Music

Here is what the composer says about his beautiful work:

Pictures at an Exhibition was originally written as a suite in ten movements for Piano in 1874

50 for Trombones were originally written for two Cellos by Offenbach probably as teaching aids or for a light chamber music selection for an evening soirée

Haydn and Dittersdorf

The Thunderer

he lived thereafter in Prague as an Organist

Aria from Orpheo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck is a sublime melody from the opera that has been exquisitely arranged for Brass Quintet by Keith Terrett

or any brass instrument for that matter

Each movement has its own individual mood and there are sharp contrasts within each movement and between movements in style

The Gershwin

That young man

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