WorthWeill Originals

Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy

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The Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy returns to Native DSD Music with their newest album WorthWeill Originals from Channel Classics Records.  This is the band’s 6th DSD album, and it comes to our listeners 6 weeks before the album’s scheduled release date on Stereo CD.

Worthweill Originals is a DSD 256 Stereo and DSD 256 Multichannel recording produced and engineered by Jared Sacks with the Merging Technologies Horus Analog to DSD 256 Converter, van Medevoort Amplifiers, Bruel & Kjaer 4006 and Schoeps Microphones, exclusive use of Van den Hul 3T cables, and Audio Lab (recording) and Grimm LS1 (mastering) Loudspeakers. It is also available from NativeDSD in Stereo DSD 512.

On ‘WorthWeill Originals’ you hear German-Austrian gems of original compositions for military band. The first volume of works for military band by the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy on Channel Classics – Rimsky & Co: Originals – received 5 stars in BBC Music Magazine: “Astonishing clarity of sound and texture thanks both to a crack ensemble and the superb recording. Brilliant, effervescent discoveries.”

Conductor Major Arjan Tien tells us more about this 2nd Volume, WorthWeill Originals: “Embarking on a series of recordings of classical originals for symphonic wind band is an adventurous quest. We decided to compile German-Austrian gems on this second volume, illustrating the development and expansion of the symphonic wind band of one and a half century: from Beethoven (1810) to Hindemith (1951). Richard Strauss composed “Variationen uber ‘Wilhelm von Oranien’ “in 1892.

The former principal conductor of the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy, major Pieter Jansen, rediscovered this work in the archives of the Royal House of the Netherlands in 1999. It became our National Anthem in 1932, but the melody dates to at least 1572.

Another work on this album that was published only twenty years ago is the beautiful and virtuosic Nocturne by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Two marches by composers no less than Beethoven and Bruckner, should naturally be included on an album by a military band, representing a different and lesser-known part of their repertoire.

We conclude our journey with three twentieth century German- Austrian giants: Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schönberg and Kurt Weill. Interestingly, their works on this album were all composed in the United States, where all three of them spent time during their careers.”

Read full blog: https://blog.nativedsd.com/lots-of-praise-for-worthweill-originals/

Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy
Major Arjan Tien, Conductor

Tracklist

Please note that the below previews are loaded as 44.1 kHz / 16 bit.
1.
Variations on 'Wilhelm von Oranien'
05:03
2.
March in C major
04:13
3.
Nocturno in C opus 24
09:16
4.
Military March in E-flat
02:59
5.
Symphony in Bb - Moderately fast with vigor
06:33
6.
Symphony in Bb - Andantino grazioso
05:13
7.
Symphony in Bb - fugue
04:38
8.
Theme and Variations for Wind Band opus 43A
12:10
9.
Little three Penny Opera - Overture
03:52
10.
Little three Penny Opera - Ballad of Mack the Knife
02:01
11.
Little three Penny Opera - Instead- of Song
02:00
12.
Little three Penny Opera - Ballad of the Easy Life
02:52
13.
Little three Penny Opera - Pollys Lied
02:35
14.
Little three Penny Opera - Tango Ballade
02:36
15.
Little three Penny Opera - Army Song
02:44
16.
Little three Penny Opera - Dreigroschen - finale
04:47

Total time: 01:13:32

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Label

SKU

42019

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Amplifiers

van Medevoort, Holland

Cables

Exclusive use of Van den Hul 3T cables

Digital Converters

Horus, Merging Technologies

Mastering Engineer

Jared Sacks

Mastering Room

Grimm LS1 Loudspeakers

Microphones

Bruel & Kjaer 4006, Schoeps

Mixing Board

Rens Heijnis, Custom Design, Analog Mixing Board

Conductors

Instruments

Original Recording Format

Producer

Jared Sacks

Recording Engineer

Jared Sacks

Recording Location

MCO, Studio 1, Hilversum, The Netherlands on November 27-30, 2018

Recording Software

Pyramix, Merging Technologies

Recording Type & Bit Rate

DSD 256

Speakers

Audio Lab, Holland

Release DateAugust 9, 2019

Press reviews

Skrop (Zuid Afrika)

(…) Blaasorkesvreugdes met Tien. (…) Die program, uit musiek van Duitse en Oostenrykse komponiste saamgestel, open met Richard Strauss se variasies op die Nederlandse volkslied Wilhelmus van Nassauwe. Die aard is oorwegend plegtig, maar deur die genialiteit van die 28-jarige Strauss word die volle potensiaal en rykdom daarvan ontgin. Opvallend is Tien se greep rondom die fraseringsopbou van die basiese melodie, maar ook in die fyner aksente en dinamiekkontraste wat Strauss in die variasies vereis. (…) Twee veeleisende repertorium-bergpieke word deur dié Mariniersorkes en hul majoor met groot welslae oorwin. (…) Laastens is daar ʼn heerlike agtdelige suite, geneem uit Kurt Weill se Threepenny-Opera. Kom ons noem dit die Trippens-Opera – ʼn nagereg-smaakavontuur vir die ore. Kort voor lank sal jou ledemate en veral voete geensins bewegingloos kan bly nie.

Pleasantly Classic (Aangenaam Klassiek)

An album that proves that the Dutch wind tradition is at the highest level.

De Gelderlander 5 out of 5

Geen twijfel mogelijk: majoor Arjan Tien en zijn mariniers timmeren mede dankzij Channel Classics goed aan de weg. (…) Wederom mag van een voltreffer worden gesproken. (…) De selectie uit de Dreigroschenoper van Kurt Weill swingt en prikkelt aan alle kanten en toont voor de zoveelste keer de veelzijdigheid van dit orkest.

HRAudio.net

Military bands are common, some are good, few are better. The Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy clearly belongs to the latter category, as listening to this new release will amply confirm. (…) here we are dealing with the equivalent of a full-blown symphony orchestra, albeit that for obvious mobility reasons strings are replaced by wind instruments. (…) This DSD digital file sounds superb! Lifelike, full of detailed information, without any hint of congestion nor distortion, and mastered with a well-judged surround.

MusicWeb International

(…) Wind bands are not everybody’s cup of bromide tea but don’t be put off: this is a thoroughly entertaining and well produced disc, with some true rarities.

Opus Klassiek

Majoor Arjan Tien verdient vijf sterren voor een cd die een prachtig portret schildert van de Marinierskapel, schitterend gespeeld, avontuurlijk geprogrammeerd en voorbeeldig toegelicht en opgenomen. Saluut!

Nederlands Dagblad

(…) blaasmuziek die het ‘hoempa’ – gehalte verre overstijgt (…) de Marinierskapel weet er wel raad mee.

BNDeSTEM 4 out of 5

(…) Een bijzondere cd van een dito gezelschap (…)

De Volkskrant 4 out of 5

(…) Verrassing volgt op verrassing, van een lichtvoetige Beethovenmars tot welluidende variaties van beroepsontregelaar Arnold Schönberg. (…)

Klassieke Zaken

(…) Een cd die bewijst dat de Nederlandse blaastraditie op het allerhoogste internationale niveau staat. (…)

HRAudio.net | NativeDSD Blog

(…) Although this Strauss’ Pomp and Circumstance may not be entirely representative of what is to follow, it gave me already an enticingly first impression what this Marine Band is capable of: A spectacular sense of balanced, musical unity. Listening on, the band’s smooth clarinets and rounded brass do, indeed, create a thorough awareness of classy, upbeat enjoyment, whether in Beethoven (“March WoO 20, not published during the composer’s lifetime”), Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s lovely Nocturno (“An absolute rarity … written at the age of fifteen and published only twenty years ago”) or in Bruckner’s sturdy German march (“an occasional work for the ‘Militär-Kapelle der Jäger-Truppe’”).

The menu’s ‘special’ is no doubt Paul Hindemith’s ‘Symphony in B Flat for Concert Band’, a hybrid-jazzy work (composed during his stay in the USA) conveyed by the Marines with playful inspiration, a substantial dose of Sax-virtuosity and tuba-swirls, admirably led and fed by the conductor, Major (military band obliging) Arjan Tien. (…)

A final word about the sound quality. Some people, like me, claim having ears that can tell the difference between low- and high-res, in spite of what experts say (with blind tests to substantiate it). Well then, let me put it this way: This DSD digital file sounds superb! Lifelike, full of detailed information, without any hint of congestion nor distortion, and mastered with a well-judged surround. I was not able to compare it with the physical SACD equivalent as there isn’t any. But, as a further clue, it was in any case a whole lot better than the FLAC file I played immediately after. Count your blessings.

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