Ensemble de Cuivres Mélodia - 3e Festival Suisse de Musique de Cuivre (1975/2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The Mélodia brass ensemble is a Swiss orchestra founded in the 1960s1 on the Vaud Coast in Switzerland. These are two young musicians aged 17 and 16, Jean-Paul Herbez and Christian Monney from Rolle, members of the Rolloise Fanfare, who wanted to create a small group. Thus, accompanied by some comrades of the Brass Band, they performed two pieces at the annual evening of their society, at the Rolle Casino, in December 1959. It was a surprise for the audience and a success. The following year, our two friends decided to recruit friends from the surrounding localities. Melodia was born. It is to Christian Monney that we owe the choice of this name2.

In 1975, the orchestra decides to change its name to "Ensemble of copper instruments of the Coast "Melodia". And it is probably in 1985, following the transfer of the rehearsal space to Lausanne, the center of gravity of the musicians' homes, that the mention "from the Coast" will finally be removed3.

Since 20084 composed of two brass band ensembles which compete respectively at the Excellence and second category levels of the Swiss Brass Band championship5.

TRACKLIST

1. Evangelische Allianzmusik Basel - Prelude for an Occasion (Live)
2. Ensemble Broyard d'Instruments de Cuivre - 3 Miniatures: Scène du désert (Live)
3. Ensemble Broyard d'Instruments de Cuivre - 3 Miniatures: Scherzo (Live)
4. Ensemble Broyard d'Instruments de Cuivre - The Contestor (Live)
5. Posaunen Chor Eschlikon - Fantasia on British Airs (Live)
6. Ensemble de Cuivres Mélodia - Trafalgar (Live)
7. Ensemble de Cuivres Mélodia - Carnival: No. 1 Cavalcade (Live)
8. Ensemble de Cuivres Mélodia - Carnival: No. 2 Pavane (Live)
9. Ensemble de Cuivres Mélodia - Carnival: No. 3 Burlesque (Live)
10. Erwin Hermann - The Nightingale (Live)
11. Ensemble de Cuivres Mélodia - The Astronaut (Live)



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