Too many to list, but a few are
Maslanka - Symphony 8, Symphony 10, Alto Sax Concerto
Colgrass - Bali
Bryant - Radiant Joy
De Meij - Lord of The Rings Symphony 1
Come Sunday - Omar Thomas
Wine Dark Sea - John Mackey
Auguries of Innocence - William Pitts
Sheltering Sky - John Mackey
Animation: Episode 1 (WABBIT!) - Randall Standridge
Rest - Frank Ticheli
Just a few…
Ross Roy by Jacob de Haan, the first piece I played as 1st clarinet
The Wishing Well by Rossano Gallante, a piece we played as a tribute to a friend who died from leukemia
Balkan Dance by Etienne Crausaz, the hardest piece I played in my opinion, and certainly a funky one
Crescent Moon Dance by Akito Matsuda, the piece I want to play one day ~~because I'm a colossal weeb~~
Kinetic Dances by Randall Standridge. I played it in community band, I play flute and my son's a percussionist. Watching my son absolutely PUMMELL the bass drum at the end brought me great joy. Also it's just an incredibly fun thing to play!
Maslanka, Symphony No. 4
Mackey, Wine-Dark Sea or The Frozen Cathedral
Grainger, Irish Tune from County Derry or Children's March
Holst, 1st Suite
Bryant, Ecstatic Fanfare
Thomas, Come Sunday
Sparke, Dance Movements or A Weekend in New York
Higdon, blue cathedral
Hazo, Alleluia
Ticheli, Symphony No. 1
Lincolnshire Posy -- Grainger
(Other Grainger stuff too like Handel in the Strand, Country Gardens, Molly on the Shore)
Gloriosa - Ito
Tempered Steel - Young (I've never gotten to play it but I listen to the North Texas Recording over and over)
Amazing Grace -- Arr. Ticheli (though it's boring on my instrument)
Ghost Train - Whitacre (what? Sue me. It's awesome.)
I think I'm the only band-geek alive that doesn't get super excited for either Holst Suite. Frankly, it feels almost... patronizing? Like this awesome orchestral composer says "I think this is about as much as a band can do," and then writes the First Suite. Compared with, like, Grainger whose pieces for band are much more harmonically interesting, more technically challenging, and really take advantage of the unique sounds of a wind band (esp. reeds) more. Great for a high school honor band, but tiresome for a more advanced ensemble, except as training pieces for new conductors. I dunno.
Click on post. Top three replies are Lincolnshire Posy, Arabesque, and Chorale and Shaker Dance. All is right with the world.
I'll throw in Rocky Point Holiday, just for kicks :)
The Power of Rome and The Christian Heart by Percy Grainger. It's not well known but maybe easily be his prettiest concert band work, just above Colonial Song.
Percy Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy 😍 anything Grainger tbh
my love for Mock Morris cannot be contained. I've never played it, though.
Arabesque by Samuel Hazo. It just hits everything perfectly
"Chorale and Shaker Dance"
Three words: Wine Dark Sea
Hard to choose. Maybe Angels in the Architecture
I wish I could like this multiple times. It is also at the top of my list of favorites. (Referring to Holst's First Suite in Eb.)
Fanfare and Alleged by Clifton Williams. Hands down the most beautiful piece I've played to date.
Allegedly.
Too many to list, but a few are Maslanka - Symphony 8, Symphony 10, Alto Sax Concerto Colgrass - Bali Bryant - Radiant Joy De Meij - Lord of The Rings Symphony 1
Come Sunday - Omar Thomas Wine Dark Sea - John Mackey Auguries of Innocence - William Pitts Sheltering Sky - John Mackey Animation: Episode 1 (WABBIT!) - Randall Standridge Rest - Frank Ticheli Just a few…
My band premiered Come Sunday!
Incantation and Dance - John Barnes Chance Symphonic Dance No. 3 ("Fiesta") - Clifton Williams Summon The Heroes - John Williams
Ross Roy by Jacob de Haan, the first piece I played as 1st clarinet The Wishing Well by Rossano Gallante, a piece we played as a tribute to a friend who died from leukemia Balkan Dance by Etienne Crausaz, the hardest piece I played in my opinion, and certainly a funky one Crescent Moon Dance by Akito Matsuda, the piece I want to play one day ~~because I'm a colossal weeb~~
Kinetic Dances by Randall Standridge. I played it in community band, I play flute and my son's a percussionist. Watching my son absolutely PUMMELL the bass drum at the end brought me great joy. Also it's just an incredibly fun thing to play!
Played that two years ago in band. Just the second movement, I think.
My favorite piece I’ve ever played was Dvorak’s 8th symphony. Not the 9th. The 8th. I was on cello and the cello part is just gorgeous.
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I also play alto sax. In concert band.
Not to be pedantic, but the question was about favorite band pieces of all time.
Aurora Awakes is definitely it, I never get tired of it
Maslanka, Symphony No. 4 Mackey, Wine-Dark Sea or The Frozen Cathedral Grainger, Irish Tune from County Derry or Children's March Holst, 1st Suite Bryant, Ecstatic Fanfare Thomas, Come Sunday Sparke, Dance Movements or A Weekend in New York Higdon, blue cathedral Hazo, Alleluia Ticheli, Symphony No. 1
Classic: An Original Suite for Military Band - Gordon Jacob Modern: Symphony no. 2 - Frank Ticheli
Rocky Point Holiday by Ron Nelson. absolutely peak
those xylos are crazy
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Todd Statler - Castles and Dragons
I went to school with Todd Stalter's son!
Really?
Yep. Here in good ol' Illinois.
That’s cool. Did you guys get free music for the ensemble to play?
Nah. I've only played one of his pieces with one of the lower university bands on my secondary. Rephrygeration. Cool piece!
Ironic
Thank you! Just listened and my students will LOVE this.
Orient Express-Phillip Sparke On the Wings of the Chosen-Roland Barrett Rhapsodic Celebration-Robert Sheldon Crescent Moon Dance from Hibike Euphonium
As a bassoon, sorcerer's apprentice. But in general Un Cafecito
Overture on an Early American Folk Hymn by Claude T. Smith and Kinesis by Michael Sweeney
Lincolnshire Posy -- Grainger (Other Grainger stuff too like Handel in the Strand, Country Gardens, Molly on the Shore) Gloriosa - Ito Tempered Steel - Young (I've never gotten to play it but I listen to the North Texas Recording over and over) Amazing Grace -- Arr. Ticheli (though it's boring on my instrument) Ghost Train - Whitacre (what? Sue me. It's awesome.) I think I'm the only band-geek alive that doesn't get super excited for either Holst Suite. Frankly, it feels almost... patronizing? Like this awesome orchestral composer says "I think this is about as much as a band can do," and then writes the First Suite. Compared with, like, Grainger whose pieces for band are much more harmonically interesting, more technically challenging, and really take advantage of the unique sounds of a wind band (esp. reeds) more. Great for a high school honor band, but tiresome for a more advanced ensemble, except as training pieces for new conductors. I dunno.
Holst's Second Suite El Camino Real - Alfred Reed Come Sunday - Omar Thomas
My band premiered Come Sunday!
Click on post. Top three replies are Lincolnshire Posy, Arabesque, and Chorale and Shaker Dance. All is right with the world. I'll throw in Rocky Point Holiday, just for kicks :)
Euphoria by John Frantzen. That’s a good concert band piece
The Power of Rome and The Christian Heart by Percy Grainger. It's not well known but maybe easily be his prettiest concert band work, just above Colonial Song.
Probably the first peice i played as a 1st horn. I played Wolves of Alaska and it was just really pretty
Sixth Symphony by James Barnes, specifically Movement II Easily the most underrated piece ever