Deified (World Premiere Recording)

National Brass Ensemble Returns to NativeDSD!

The National Brass Ensemble follows their first album at NativeDSD – Gabrieli – from Oberlin Music with their second album and conductor Eun Sun Kim.  The new release is Deified, an album from Pentatone containing music by Wagner and Strauss, as well as World Premiere Recordings of pieces by Jonathan Bingham and Arturo Sandoval. It is another showcase of the exceptional and expressive range of brass music.

This album was recorded at the Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, on June 20, 2022. It was produced by Blanton Alspaugh, recorded by John Newton and mastered by Mark Donahue from SoundMirror. Technical assistance was provided by Sean Royce Martin & Steve Veilleux of Skywalker Sound.

Bingham won the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and San Francisco Symphony’s Emerging Black Composers Project competition with his cinematic composition Deified, while composer/trumpet player Sandoval is a legend in the brass world. The longest piece on this album is Timothy Higgins’s The Ring, a virtuosic recomposition of Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen scored for brass ensemble. Together, these pieces showcase the exceptional coloristic and expressive range of brass music.

Consisting of some of the best players from leading U.S. orchestras, the National Brass Ensemble is one of the greatest brass groups of our time. Eun Sun Kim is Caroline H. Hume Music Director of the San Francisco Opera, and frequents the most important opera houses and concert halls of the world.

National Brass Ensemble
Eun Sun Kim, Conductor