Episode 491, Windswept

If your idea of the perfect instrument involves a long tube with lots of keys, have we got a show for you. This week on Wind & Rhythm, we take a special look at the woodwind section. Flutes, Oboes, Clarinets, Bassoons, and Saxophones all share in the limelight.

Clarinet Candy
  Leroy Anderson
  US Air Force Band,  Leroy Anderson
Umoja
  Valerie Coleman
  Imani Winds    
Pavane
  Gabriel Fauré
  US Army Field Band: Chamber Winds    
Concerto for Clarinet
  Artie Shaw, ed. Tory Sherrod
  North Texas Wind Symphony,  Eugene Migliaro Corporon
Concerto Grosso for Saxophone Quartet & Band,
Mvt IV: Badinerie
  William Bolcom
  University of Michigan Symphony Band, Michael Haithcock
Summer Music, for wind quintet, Op. 31,
​Mvts: I, II, IV, V, IV
  Samuel Barber
  Myers, Robinson, Drucker, Le Clair, Baxtresser    
Alligator Alley
  Michael Daugherty
  North Texas Wind Symphony, Eugene Migliano Corporon
Molly on the Shore
  Percy Grainger, ed. Larry Clark
  US Marine Band, Colonel Michael J. Colburn
Tico Tico
  Zequinha Abreu
  Dallas Wind Symphony, Frederick Fennell