Sousa: Music For Wind Band, Vol. 22 Csgt Gordon Carter, The Band Of Her Majesty’S Royal Marines Plymouth, Keith Brion

"The March King”, expressing the brash energy of an emerging United States of America in famous pieces such as The Stars and Stripes Forever! The commemorative Assembly of the Artisans mixes light-hearted tunes with more serious hymn-like music, finishing with the “Anvil Chorus” from Verdi’s Il trovatore, while The Messiah of Nations sets a patriotic text by James Whitcomb Riley. (Naxos)