Composition of the Week

Music for Winds SKROWACZEWSKI STANISLAW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVPik3NAl6A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n10u2naC_Pg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi2NLg8R6gE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNKe7F7vX-8 The magnificent “Music for Winds” by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski is our Composition of the Week. A rare gem, this four-movement work is certainly one of the greatest contributions to the Wind Ensemble literature of the last decade. Written in 2001, and published in 2009, it has a duration of about of 21 minutes. The music is available on rental by Schott. Skrowaczewski himself tell us about his work: “Music for Winds was commissioned by a consortium of nine orchestras in four countries (the United States, Germany, Austria, and Japan). The initiator of this project [...]