Episode 656, Suites for Valentine's Day

On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we offer a Valentine suite of musical suites. We hear music from Bizet’s Carmen, and the Dutch Suite by PDQ Bach, all right here at the gathering place for people who love band music.

Carillon from Suite Française
  Francis Poulenc
  Michael Murray & Empire Brass

Suite Tuba
I. Shifting Sands
II. Swingin' With Sam
III. Lullaby
IV. Finale
  Thomas Bough
  Northern Illinois University Wind Symphony & Friends:
​   Thomas Bough, tuba  ​

Carmen Suite
Aragonaise; Habañera; Entr'acte;
Intermezzo; Toreador's Song
  Georges Bizet, arr. Fernie
  Black Dyke Band, Nicholas Childs

Brilliant Bach Overtures
4. Badinerie (from Suite #2, BWV 1067)
  Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Tony Rickard
  Canadian Brass;
​  Brandon Ridenour, piccolo trumpet solo, Robert Moody

Dutch Suite
I. Mr. Minuit's Minuet
II. Panther Dance
III. Dance of the Grand Dams
IV. The Lowland Fling
  Peter Schickele as "PDQ Bach"
  National Symphonic Winds 
  as "Turtle Mountain Naval Base Tactical Wind Ensemble",
  Lowell Graham

Dance Suite on Spanish and Latin Rhythms
- El Baile, La Comparsa (The Carnival)
- La Corrida (The Bullfight)
  Aldo Forte
  US Air Force Heritage of America Band, Lowell Graham