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This may have come arounda couple times, but I am curious to see what people say.

For me, I would have to say Alfred Reed's "Russian Christmas Music" is one of my recent favorites.

I performed the Hindemith Symphony last year and it was a BLAST to play.

I also just performed Music for Prague last night. Also very fun to play, very challenging, and a great piece to listen to.

As a euph player I must say Holst's Second Suite in F, his First Suite is also quite good.

It's been more than a year since I've played Russian Christmas Music, I love it, perhaps this coming holiday season...

Holst 1st Suite, 2nd Suite
RVW English Folk Song,
Milhoud, Suite Francais
Russian Christmas Music
Whitacre, Lux Arumque (I know it's originally a choral piece but the band arrangement is absolutely beautiful

Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy
Arnold - Four Scottish Dances
Reed - La Fiesta Mexicana
Nehlebel - Trittico

Whitacre, Lux Arumque - pretty piece, but I don't love it too much.


Lincolnshire Posy is my ultimate favorite piece.

I also really like Tempered Steel. I don't know who composed it, but it is a really neat piece.

I'll go with:

Terpsichore (Margolis)

The Kings Go Forth (Gregson)

Symphony No.4 (Maslanka)

First Suite (Holst)

Al Fresco (Husa)

Schwantner: and the mountains rising nowhere...
Colgrass: The Winds of Nagual
Reynolds: Scenes Revisited
Bedford: The Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves
Gillingham: Heroes Lost and Fallen

..and many more equally imaginative works!

Happy Listening!

tbn.al wrote:Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy
Arnold - Four Scottish Dances
Reed - La Fiesta Mexicana
Nehlebel - Trittico

good picks as far as the reed and grainger, two of my favorite pieces, I also like:

Camphouse- Watchman Tell Us of the Night (a newer piece but a great piece)

Milhaude-Suite Francaise (a standard)

and more of a band piece per say but:

Vaughan Williams- Toccata Marziale

Persichetti Symphony for Band
Holst Hammersmith
...and another vote for Posy and Russian Xmas

I'm loving Reed's "Armenian Dances Part 2". Very fun tuba part, I'd say. Eric Whitacre's "October" is also really pretty.

Lux Aurumque - Whitacre
Equus - Whitacre
October - Whitacre
A Movement for Rosa - Camphouse (wicked awesome Euphonium soli)
Tempered Steel - Charles Rochester Young
Sanctuary - Ticheli
Galactic Empires - Gillingham
Terpsichore - Margolis
Lincolnshire Posy - Grainger

Some not mentioned-

Hanson-Laudes
Roger Nixon-Pacific Celebration Suite
Wagner-Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral
Walton-Crown Imperial
Weinberger-Shwanda the Bagpiper
Bruckner-Apollo March
Barber Commando March
Prokofiev-March(only one he wrote for wind ensemble, I believe)
Ives-Variations on America
Dello Joio- Variants on a Medieval Tune

Der Koninggratzer, and basically any German march.
Toccata Marziale
Symphony No.4-Maslanka
Deathtree-Holsinger
Sir William Walton-Anything he wrote.

ZNC Dandy wrote: Deathtree-Holsinger

Stop the tread. We have our winner.

Donald Erb: The Purple Roofed Ethical Suicide Parlor

In no particular order --- goosebump city, some also heart-on-your-sleeve patriotic.

Fisher Tull - Sketches on a Tudor Psalm
Karel Husa - Music For Prague 1968
Gordon Jacob - Flag of Stars
Ron Nelson - Rocky Point Holiday
George Gershwin - Cuban Overture (transcriber? ___)
Howard Hanson - Dies Natalis
Wm Schumann - Chester
Clifton Williams - Fanfare & Allegro, Ramparts, The Sinfonians Percy Grainger - Irish Tune from County Derry
Ward/Dragon - America the Beautiful
Claude T Smith - The Navy Hymn

(If you ever need to score points with a bigwig who is also a USN vet, program that last 2. If he/she is Irish, do the last 3.)

Suite of Old American Dances, by Robert Russell Bennett
Incantation and Dance, by John Barnes Chance
Folksong Suite, by Ralph Vaughn Williams
Scenes From the Louvre and Variants on a Medieval Tune, by Norman Dello Joio

Finale to Symphony No. 1 in G minor by Kalinnikov
Mother Earth by Maslanka
To set the darkness echoing by Wilson
Come Sweet Death by Bach arr. Alfred Reed
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight by Elliot del Borgo

Dance Movements by Philip Sparke. Commissioned by the U S Air Force Band, it contains some of the most challenging, listenable and satisfying music written for winds.