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| Blu-ray audio-only w 5.1 DTS-HDMA (24/96) and 2.0 PCM Naxos NBD0048

This month, a truly fine selection of new, rare and very listenable hi-res recordings.

This is a fine recording from the innovative University of Texas Wind Ensemble featuring flute soloist Marianne Gedigian, who was a regular performer with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for over a decade, including several seasons as Acting Principal Flute under Seiji Ozawa. The three works were conceived to give the concert listener a surround sound experience in a live space, re-created on this recording in lovely 5.1 DTS-HD surround. Steven Bryant’s Concerto for Wind Ensemble places three groups of players around the audience while Joel Puckett’s Shadow of Sirius envelops the audience with a spatial arrangement of flutists. In the second movement of John Mackey’s Kingfishers Catch Fire antiphonal trumpets are staged behind the audience to conjure up this magnificent bird flying triumphantly into the sunlight. Audiophiles and lovers of contemporary music will like this disc.