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Videos of David Rakowski's music. And SoundCloud thingies, too. See Alphabetical List of Posts for genres.

"rampant imagination, ideas and riffs aggressively growing, mutating, overrunning a stretch of time like invasive species." — Boston Globe
"it outstayed its welcome like pundits’ ceaseless chatter" — NY Times
"If it was sultry, it was an academic sultry" — Boston Globe
"Mr. Rakowski is to be treasured for livening up the piano repertoire" — New York Concert Review

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Wind ensemble

Ten of a Kind (2000) was commissioned by "The President's Own" US Marine Band. The autogenerated YouTube movies below represent the commercial recording of the piece done in May, 2001. It's in four movements, in the order presented below.

Sibling Revelry (2004) is an arrangement of four "vernacular" piano études. It is a recent release by the Marine Band, who posted the recordings on YouTube. These are the four movements in order, followed by the original piano versions.

Cantina (2007) was commissioned by the Barlow Foundation when I won the Barlow Prize. The Marine Band recorded it in 2009 and editing finished in 2010, and the date of release, if any, is unknown. It has been posted on their website at least once.

New England Conservatory Symphonic Winds recorded a live version of three of the movements, and Naxos placed them on YouTube.