Video Review

Canadian Brass: Home Movies (1993)

Reviewed by Roy Hemming | Aug 27, 1993
EW's GRADE
A

Details Movie Rated: Unrated; Genre: Musical; With: Canadian Brass

The irreverent, irrepressible Canadian Brass have done more in recent years than perhaps any other chamber ensemble to take the stuffiness out of classical music while maintaining the highest technical standards. The quintet's latest video, Canadian Brass: Home Movies, combines colorful performance footage with wryly interspersed home movie-style snippets. From the thunderous chords of the ''Sunrise'' section of Strauss' Zarathustra, they go on to treat the music of Bach, Mozart, Kurt Weill, and W.C. Handy with equal and awesome aplomb. A

Originally posted Jul 31, 2009 Published in issue #185-186 Aug 27, 1993 Order article reprints

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