Over the Hills and Far Away - Kristiansand Blåseensemble, Bjørn Sagstad

Cymbal crashes, screeching clarinets and harsh trombones. But a march comes in many colours — and not necessarily one to be marched to. A colourful postcard from the East, Orient et Occident, signed Camille Saint-Saëns – wild and wonderful chaos in Charles Ives’ 1776 – a warm tribute to a valley in Norway with Johannes Hanssen’s Valdres March – a moving memorial to a dear friend in Edvard Grieg’s Funeral March – the source of sheer enjoyment like Percy Grainger’s Over the Hills and Far Away ... This is vitamin C in musical form for children of all ages!

Music and arrangements by Camille Saint-Saëns, Percy Grainger, Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Samuel Barber, Charles Ives, Johannes Hanssen, Johan Halvorsen, Ole Bull, Stig Nordhagen, Edvard Grieg, Carl Maria von Weber and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.