01	First Suite In E-Flat, Op. 28 No. 1 - Chaconne						04:40
	02	First Suite In E-Flat, Op. 28 No. 1 - Intermezzo						02:51
	03	First Suite In E-Flat, Op. 28 No. 1 - March						02:54
	04	Second Suite In F Op. 28, No. 2 - March						04:24
	05	Second Suite In F Op. 28, No. 2 - Song Without Words						02:43
	06	Second Suite In F Op. 28, No. 2 - Song Of The Blacksmith						01:22
	07	Second Suite In F Op. 28, No. 2 - Fantasia On The "Dargason"						03:02
	08	Music For The Royal Firewords - Ouverture						06:47
	09	Music For The Royal Firewords - Bourrée						01:37
	10	Music For The Royal Firewords - La Paix						02:03
	11	Music For The Royal Firewords - La Réjouissance						02:04
	12	Trio	Music for the Royal Firewords - Minuet					03:29
	13	Olympic Theme From Three Fanfares						01:02
	14	Barnum And Bailey's Favorite						02:29
	15	Radetzky March						02:20
	16	The Stars And Stripes Forever						03:45
	17	Folk Song Suite - March: Seventeen Come Sunday						03:21
	18	Folk Song Suite - Intermezzo: My Bonny Boy						03:46
	19	Folk Song Suite - March: Folk Songs From Somerset						03:38
	20	Lincolnshire Posy - Lisbon Bay						01:23
	21	Lincolnshire Posy - Horkstow Granger						02:47
	22	Lincolnshire Posy - Rufford Park Poachers						03:41
	23	Lincolnshire Posy - The Brisk Young Sailor						01:33
	24	Lincolnshire Posy - Lord Melbourne						03:02
	25	Lincolnshire Posy - The Lost Lady Found						02:17
	26	Shepherd's Hey						02:01

Frederick Fennell's recordings with the Cleveland Symphonic Winds are a prime example of Telarc's early and prestigious catalog. To some, Fennell is considered to be responsible for the Wind Ensemble as it is heard today.

Frederick Fennell's 1979 Telarc recordings were among the earliest releases from the then fledgling label. The original LPs were famous for their remarkable clarity and (in the Holst First Suite) powerful bass drum transients. Now, 25 years later, DSD technology makes it possible to hear the full bandwidth of the original masters, and the results are simply stunning. The bass drum that predominated in the LP pressings now sounds naturally placed in a very realistic acoustic environment, while the recording's clarity and presence and wide dynamic range give the listener a convincing illusion of sitting before an actual ensemble. And what an ensemble! Essentially the Cleveland Orchestra without strings, the Cleveland Symphonic Winds performs with amazing alacrity and virtuosity throughout the program, which also includes Leo Arnaud's Olympic Theme (featuring some breathtaking brass playing), Karl King's Barnum and Bailey's Favorite, Johann Strauss' Radetzky March, and John Philip Sousa's ever-popular Stars and Stripes Forever. Rare is the recording that equally satisfies both the audiophile and the music lover. This one does it in spades.

The Fred Fennell story is about the bass drum beater. The bass drum belonged to TCO and is/was fabulous. Two other people were involved besides Jack Renner and Frederick Fennell, and that was Stan Ricker (crazy disc mastering genius) and Bob Wood.

They wanted a powerful tight sound for the big whop at the start of the last movement of the Holst and none of the beaters were cutting it. Fred still had family in Cleveland Heights and they went there on a mission with him to find an old bed frame ornament-a solid wood ball about the size of a baseball -and hard as a rock. Fred drilled it for the drum stick, covered it with leather and it made the perfect sound.

Stan Ricker was with them to do a lot of things, and one thing he was great at was tuning bass drum heads-to get rid of the spurious frequencies and get a clear and solid fundamental-hard to do when you are working down at frequencies that low (somewhere around 20hZ or lower). He also instructed them, and they coerced the musicians, to turn the instrument perpendicular to the front of the stage and tilted down toward the floor at about 45 degrees. That way-since they still had to cut the signal to LPs-there would be no out of phase reflections that would make the cutting head rise up out of the groove. The result was what the Encyclopedia Britannia 1978 Yearbook called "The bass drum heard 'round the world”.

That is the story and the process to know they needed a better bass drum beater and find one was probably more like a 2-3 day "gotta sort this out quick" kind of thing.

Notes
This Telarc SACD album combines parts of two other albums that Fennell and the Cleveland Winds recorded in 1978 and 1979. It features works by Holst, Handel, the Olympic theme composed by Leo Arnaud, marches by Karl King, Johann Struass, Sr., and John Philip Sousa, and Percy Grainger's "Lincolnshire Posy." Total time: 75 minutes.