NEW ON NAXOS | DECEMBER 2025
Giancarlo Guerrero © Matthew Holler
Click to listen to COREA, C.: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra: I. A Stroll LISTEN Brass Concertos COREA • HIGDON • WARNAAR José Sibaja, Cornet Joseph Alessi, Paul Jenkins, Derek W. Hawkes, Trombones Steven Brown, Bass trombone • Gilbert Long, Tuba Nashville Symphony • Giancarlo Guerrero This album represents part of Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony’s mission to expand the contemporary American concerto repertoire, with each of these three works spotlighting a different facet of the relatively underexplored brass instrument family. Brad Warnaar’s Cornet Concerto draws on a rich heritage of 19th-century band music with wit and heartfelt homage, while Chick Corea’s Trombone Concerto , his final completed composition, fuses lyricism, jazz spontaneity, and orchestral drama. Jennifer Higdon’s Low Brass Concerto honors the spirit of this orchestral section through a majestic single-movement work of clarity and resonance. All of these pieces expand the expressive possibilities of the brass concerto in ways that are both surprising and deeply engaging.
8.559895 Release date: 5 Dec 2025
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About Giancarlo Guerrero, Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero is a six-time GRAMMY Award-winning conductor known for his imaginative programming. As music director for the Nashville Symphony for 16 seasons, he championed contemporary American music through commissions, recordings and performances. Under his leadership, the Nashville Symphony premiered 24 works by composers including Béla Fleck, Ben Folds, Jennifer Higdon, Hannibal Lokumbe, Terry Riley, Wayne Shorter and Victor Wooten. He also helped launch the Composer Lab and Workshop with Aaron Jay Kernis, supporting emerging American composers. Currently serving as music director for Sarasota Orchestra and Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival, Guerrero is also a sought-after guest conductor who has led numerous orchestras, including the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Sydney and Frankfurt Symphonies; The Philadelphia Orchestra; and the New York and London Philharmonics.
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The soloists for this recording come straight out of the top drawer of brass players. José Sibaja (Warnaar) makes his Naxos debut here, and is one of the most versatile and highly acclaimed trumpet players of his generation with worldwide concerts and broadcasts in the classical, Latin, jazz and pop musical genres. Joseph Alessi (Corea) is trombonist with the New York Philharmonic with a distinguished solo and recording career, including his Naxos album Return to Sorrento (8.570232) and performance of Stephen Gryc’s trombone concerto Passagi (8.572109). Higdon’s Low Brass Concerto is expertly played by musicians from the Nashville Symphony’s renowned brass section.
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• Given their remarkable track record on the Naxos label, each new release of contemporary repertoire performed by the Nashville Symphony conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero has now become something of an event. Their recording of Michael Daugherty’s Metropolis Symphony 8.559635) was a multiple GRAMMY Award winner and considered ‘terrifically entertaining’ by ClassicsToday.com , as well as a recording of Christopher Rouse’s Fifth Symphony and two other works (8.559852) on which MusicWeb International reported that ‘all three performances are excellent as Giancarlo Guerrero draws utterly splendid playing from the Nashville Symphony’.
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