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If Nicholas Maw is best known as a master of expansive, often melancholy, musical statements, his riveting American Games for symphonic wind band displays a different side of his fascinating output. Unfolding as one continuous span, this driving, dynamic 7-movement work is filled with rhythmic zest and a sophisticated feeling for colour. Commissioned for the 1991 BBC Proms, the work was first performed there by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra.
`A sequence of dances which make up a vigorous rhythmic romp, brilliantly written for the instruments.'
The Guardian (Edward Greenfield), 25th July 1991
- ISBN: 9780571564132 (0571564135)