"Foster for Brass" CD cover

The US-based Chestnut Brass Company has released "Foster for Brass" on the Naxos label. The CD, their sixteenth, includes such Stephen Foster favorites as Beautiful Dreamer and Hard Times Waltz performed on appropriate historical instruments from their large collection.

The Chestnut Brass Company is Bruce Barrie, John Charles Thomas (trumpets), Marian Hesse (horn), Larry Zimmerman (trombone).

Full track listing:

1. Ellen Bayne Quick Step
2. Bronze Bob Tail Horse Quick Step
3. Why, No One to Love
4. California Quick Step
5. Beautiful Dreamer
6. Dolly Day Quick Step
7. Hard Times Waltz
8. We Are Coming Father Abraam, 300, 000 More
9. Colonel Meeker's Quick Step
10. My Old Kentucky Home
11. My Wife Is a Most Knowing Woman
12. Maggie by My Side Grand March
13. Santa Anna's Retreat from Buena Vista
14. Willie Schottisch
15. George Hart's Quick Step
16. Some Folks
17. Open Thy Lattice Love
18. Old Dog Tray March
19. Camptown Quick Step
20. Massa's in the Cold Ground
21. When This Dreadful War Is Over
22. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming
23. Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming Quick Step
24. Gentle Annie
25. Lulu Is Gone
26. Where Has Lula Gone
27. Farewell My Lily Dear Quick Step

“Foster for Brass” is available in record stores and at Amazon.com and other internet retailers. (Note: The Amazon title search works badly for this title on amazon.com and amazon.de – instead, try searching for the Amazon internal reference number B00007FPFS. Ed.)

Website:
Chestnut Brass Company