The Mystic Trumpeter

The Mystic Trumpeter

ASIN: B0009VCQUW

Track Listings

1. Liquid Prelude

2. The Walks of Paradise

3. Sounds of Smiting Steel

4. The Flames that Heat the World

5. Distant Thunder

6. Enough to Merely Be

7. Allegro

8. Adagio

9. Scherzo

10. Rondo

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Randy Sandke has performed at festivals, clubs, and concerts around the world. He has toured Europe over forty times and performed extensively throughout Japan, the U.S., Canada, and India.

Randy has recorded over twenty albums as a leader, primarily on the Concord and German Nagel-Heyer label. A recent discography, published by the Dutch jazz scholar Gerard Beilderman, runs to 53 pages. Among the artists Mr. Sandke has recorded with include the instrumentalists Michael Brecker, Benny Goodman, Kenny Barron, Dick Hyman, Mulgrew Miller, Bill Charlap, Eric Reed, Frank Wess, Ray Anderson, Chris Potter, Sweets Edison, Flip Phillips, Scott Hamilton, Wycliffe Gordon, Warren Vache, and Mel Lewis; singers include Mel Torme, Jon Hendricks, Rosemary Clooney, Cab Calloway, John Pizzarelli, Gregory Hines, Art Garfunkel, Barbara Carroll, Dr. John, Karrin Allyson, Susannah McCorkle, as well as appearances with Diane Reeves, Sting, Elton John, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, James Taylor, Chaka Khan, Billy Eckstine, and Joe Williams.

Randy Sandke has played on the soundtracks of several films, including Francis Ford Coppola's "The Cotton Club," Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memories," "American Splendor," and five Woody Allen movies. On Broadway, Randy played in the production of "Chicago" with Beebe Neuwirth at the City Center, which launched the hugely successful revivals on stage and screen. Randy also played the on-stage Harry James trumpet solo which climaxes the show "Fosse." He recorded all trumpet solos for the recent production of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" starring Whoopee Goldberg. He has performed on television in Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, in the U.S. with Benny Goodman for a PBS special, and on the Late Show with David Letterman.

As a composer, Randy Sandke has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and has had pieces performed at Carnegie Hall, the 92nd St. YMHA, the Greenwich House in New York City, and Avery Fischer Hall at Lincoln Center. The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band has performed six of his suites. In 1998, the Concord Concerto label released an album featuring several of Mr. Sandke's orchestral compositions in performances by the Bulgarian National Orchestra. Over eighty of Mr. Sandke's pieces have been recorded. In July of 2003 his "Subway Ballet" was performed at the 92nd St. Y in New York City. He has written arrangements for Sting, Elton John, the King of Thailand, and transcriptions for Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.

Randy Sandke's book, "Harmony for a New Millennium" was published by Hal Leonard, Inc. in 2002 It details a method of exploring non-tonal harmony in the context of both composition and improvisation. Artists who have endorsed the book include Jon Faddis, Joshua Redman, Maria Schneider, Dick Hyman, Nicholas Payton, and Michael Brecker. Randy has also written scholarly articles on jazz history for the Oxford Companion to Jazz and the Rutgers University "Annual Review of Jazz Studies." He has been a guest lecturer at the Julliard School, Manhattan School of Music, the New School, Hofstra University, Rutgers University, Hampshire College, William Patterson College, and the University of Arizona.

Mr. Sandke is listed in the standard biographical sources, such as the "Encyclopedia of Jazz," and most jazz CD reference guides. Jazz Times ran a feature article on him in the October 2002 issue, and the English magazine Jazz Journal profiled Randy in a two-part cover story in 1996. His recent CD, Inside Out, was named one of the top ten albums of the year by Jazz Times in 2002.

Product Description
Although I have made many recordings during my career, nearly all have been made according to the wishes and strictures of a particular recording company. Almost never have I had the latitude to do my own original music in my own way. This situation especially applies to that body of music that I refer to as "metatonal." Metatonal music is music that is harmonically derived, as is tonal music, yet uses different harmonies in a different way. For those who are interested in taking a closer look at this new approach to composition and improvisation, I refer you to my book, HARMONY FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM, published by Hal Leonard Music, Inc. (2001). In a sense, this is my first record, or at least the first recording devoted exclusively to my own personal way of creating music. However, it is my sincere desire that those who hear it respond on an emotional level first before even considering the technical aspect of how this music is put together. --Randy Sandke

The Mystic Trumpeter,Randy Sandke & the Metatonal Band,Evening Star ES-108,Jazz,Jazz with a New Perspective,Mainstream Jazz,United States of America

Holst: The Planets [Hybrid SACD]
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Holst: The Planets [Hybrid SACD]

Manufacturer: Naxos
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ASIN: B000110PJY
Release Date: 2004-04-20

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Mars, The Bringer Of War
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The Mystic Trumpeter, Op. 18

Howard Hanson Vol. V: The Mystic Trumpeter

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Dies Natalis: I. Introduction And Chorale - Maestoso
Dies Natalis: II. Variation 1 - Poco piu mosso
Dies Natalis: III. Variation 2 - Allegro
Dies Natalis: IV. Variation 3 - Pesante
Dies Natalis: V. Variation 4 - Andante calmo, nel modo Gregoriano
Dies Natalis: VI. Variation 5 - Allegro feroce
Dies Natalis: VII. Variation 6 - Larghetto semplice
Dies Natalis: VIII. Variation 7 - Allegro tempestuoso
Dies Natalis: IX. Finale - Poco a poco ritardando al tempo giusto
The Mystic Trumpeter: Text From Walt Whitman's Leaves Of Grass, 'From Noon To Starry Night'
Lumen in Christo: I. Largo
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Opus 24: Lux Aeterna

Holst: The Planets; The Mystic Trumpeter; Colin Matthews: Pluto

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CD & DVD AUDIO: Familiar, Hearty Planets w rarity Trumpeter
Matthews hits the right note for Holst

Holst: The Planets; The Mystic Trumpeter; Colin Matthews: Pluto

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Release Date: 2002-04-16

Tracks:

Mars, The Bringer Of War
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Jupiter, The Bringer Of Jollity
Saturn, The Bringer Of Old Age
Uranus, The Magician
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Pluto, The Renewer
The Mystic Trumpeter, Op.18 - Claire Rutter

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Updating Holst.......2005-02-01

This is an excellent recording of the Planets. The Naxos engineers have managed to capture most of the subtle orchestral effects of this work. It is a wholly acceptable recording.

However, this recording adds on to Holst's masterpiece by including Colin Matthews' Pluto. I quite liked Matthews' movement, but I really wonder whether Holst's masterpiece is served by appending a movement so out of character to the original work. Matthews' Pluto is a quite modern work. Some critics have pointed out that had Holst wanted to add an eighth movement, he could have just as easily added earth. (Pluto was not discovered until long after The Planets was composed.) Much like adding a modern structure onto an ancient building, you really have to wonder whether or not this is actually a good idea.

This is still a good recording to have, however. It brings out the shimmering textures of Neptune. Jupiter is certainly glorious.

CD & DVD AUDIO: Familiar, Hearty Planets w rarity Trumpeter.......2003-07-05

Is there any orchestra music lover anywhere, who has not yet heard the planets? I have for long, long years cherished the several versions recorded at one time or another by the late Sir Adrian Boult - who premiered the work - but the new Naxos version with the Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by David Lloyd-Jones, need not suffer from hallowed comparisons. Perhaps one starts out with this music, revelling in the large moments, rhythmed and swelling and soaring; only to later linger more and more often into musing about the brilliant innovations of the composer's use of the orchestra, along with less of the riot of life and more of the fading away into unfathomable, mysterious regions. In any case, the new CD ... and the new multichannel DVD audio disc release, even more so ... gives plenty to relish on both counts. While the 16-bit CD is bright and wide and clear; the dvd audio disc is multichannel and yields up that much more of everything except distortion. Particularly in dvd audio, often also available at a bargain Naxos price, one senses the care Holst seems to have lavished upon the orchestration of this musical extravaganza. He goes Berlioz and Rimsky-Korsakov one better, as it were, uniting his musical ideas with the very timbres of the solos and orchestra sections which play them. This must have been almost unbearably striking in 1916, so close on the heels of the riot that premiered Stravinky's Rite of Spring in Paris, just a few years earlier. That the disk finishes with a genuine first, the recording of Holst's Mystic Trumpeter scena for soprano and orchestra, only reminds a listener once again that Naxos can lead the pack when it wants to do so. Bravo, again. Highly recommended for sound, performance, and repertoire. Put this right next to Sir Adrian Boult, on the keeper shelves. Yes, keeper. And if you have one of those fancy surround sound, home theater setups handy, put on the compatible dvd audio/dolby pressing to celebrate just how much music a good multichannel system can put out, in between those movies.

Matthews hits the right note for Holst.......2002-06-17

The recordings of Gustav Holst's 'Planets' are legion. Amazon has over 100 listings. Numerous too are the lesser composers who have aped the conventions of 'Mars' and 'Jupiter', in particular, to make themselves a fast buck out of writing film scores. Now, heaven help us, we have a toy classics-lite ensemble named after this well-known suite.

In the midst of all this popularity it is easy to forget just what a quality work 'The Planets' is. This excellent new edition from Naxos, marking their fifteen years as a high selling classical label, provides an excellent stimulus to the memory. The Royal Scottish National Orchestra gives a fine account of itself in its rich, enthusiastic, but never overbearing approach to the score. This should not surprise us, because they are lead in their endeavours by composer Colin Matthews. He has more reason than most to have given Holst's most famous work detailed attention, since he bravely responded to a commission from Kent Negano and the Halle orchestra to write a sequel. His 'Pluto: The Renewer' is included on this disc, along with a stirring rendition of Holst's little known 'The Mystic Trumpeter' (opus 18), based on a poem by Walt Whitman. Clare Rutter (sop) does more than enough to convince us that this orchestral song is worth listening to again.

What of Matthews' endeavours? The Halle first recorded and released 'Pluto' (named after the planet discovered in 1933, a year before Holst died) in 2001, on the Hyperion label. Comparisons with that disc are inevitable. Both are strong, but perhaps not surprisingly Matthews' own baton seems to bring a little greater clarity and contrast to his own composition. The RSNO's performance on 'Mars' and 'Venus' is also much more wilful than that of the Halle, and they match up well to each other on the more meditative movements and sequences too.

Opinion will obviously be divided, but I think Matthews has written a sequel of compelling authority and vision. He segues his composition out of the embers of 'Neptune', picking up its mystical resonance before moving us towards a couple of dissonant climaxes. The conclusion too his piece is mesmerising. There are plenty of Holstian references in this 6 minute 42 second score, but Matthews does not try straightforwardly to 'write Holst'. He is his own man. His piece blends in well with the other Planets - as becomes more apparent on successive listenings to the whole refigured work. But it does not mimic. Its language is inventive, such that only those who feel the need to render modern in inverted commas when they use it as an epithet to music are likely to miss the point.

The Halle give the nervous or traditional listener the 'proper' ending to Holst's suite as well as Matthews' addendum, in case they want to re-programme their CD player accordingly. Naxos and the RSNO go that natural step further by integrating the two without qualification, and they also provide us with a first-rate account of that Holst 'scena' for soprano and orchestra too. A milestone that deserves high praise. My advice would be to get both versions. Then try out some of Matthews' other orchestral works on the 1996 Collins Classic recording, which includes 'Hidden Variables', 'Memorial', 'Quatrain' and 'Machines And Dreams'.

The Mystic Trumpeter
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Liquid Prelude
The Walks of Paradise
Sounds of Smiting Steel
The Flames that Heat the World
Distant Thunder
Enough to Merely Be
Allegro
Adagio
Scherzo
Rondo

Product Description

Although I have made many recordings during my career, nearly all have been made according to the wishes and strictures of a particular recording company. Almost never have I had the latitude to do my own original music in my own way. This situation especially applies to that body of music that I refer to as "metatonal." Metatonal music is music that is harmonically derived, as is tonal music, yet uses different harmonies in a different way. For those who are interested in taking a closer look at this new approach to composition and improvisation, I refer you to my book, HARMONY FOR A NEW MILLENNIUM, published by Hal Leonard Music, Inc. (2001). In a sense, this is my first record, or at least the first recording devoted exclusively to my own personal way of creating music. However, it is my sincere desire that those who hear it respond on an emotional level first before even considering the technical aspect of how this music is put together. --Randy Sandke

Converse: The Mystic Trumpeter; Flivver Ten Million; Endymion's Narrative

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Interesting music, very well-played
Wonderful Music, But Some Technical Difficulties
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Interesting music, very well-played.......2007-05-06

This recording is a joy from beginning to end. Not only are all three compositions highly effective and interesting, the interpretations by Maestra Falletta and the Buffalo forces are spectacular. The only question I have is why a few measures of music were cut from the final pages of the Endymion's Narrative? They are there on my recording by the Louisville Orchestra. But that's the only minor quibble with this otherwise exemplary program, and it thoroughly outclasses all previous recordings of these scores. Let's have more music by Converse and his contemporaries!

Wonderful Music, But Some Technical Difficulties.......2003-01-12

After hearing an interview with JoAnne Falletta with brief exerpts from this CD on NPR last Sunday, I ran right out and bought it. Converse composed lush, romantic, Wagnerian/Straussian music in the early 20th Century U.S., and if you like that type of music, (and I do!), this is a real feast. Although the music is thoroughly grounded in Europe, it also clearly breathes American air. And the homages to Strauss, and more strikingly, Wagner, are often quite surprizing, even revelatory. Perhaps more importantly, unlike say, Szymanowski or Scriabin, Converse avoided slavish imitation. At a slight distance, the sound is gorgeous, but close up on the headphones there are frequent, irritating noises. Perhaps the recording was miked very closely and picked up a lot of the page-turning, or maybe my disc has a manufacturing defect. In any case though, this music is well worth hearing and having.

A sensational orchestral feast.......2002-11-21

When I bought this I had no idea what to expect. Happily, this has become one of my favorite disks in a 5000+ cd collection. This is powerful, heady stuff. The Mystic Trumpeter is superb -- why don't orchestras play this? It holds its own against R. Strauss, Liszt, and any other tone poem writer you can think of. It is played to the hilt by the Buffalo orchestra and its fine conductor. The recorded sound is sensational. The other two works are almost as entertaining. Buy this! Maybe that will encourage Naxos to record more scintillating music from this composer.

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