CMYK NAXOS Playing SOUSA’S GREATEST Time: 1:46:56 MARCHES Disc made in Canada. Printed and assembled USA. compact disc prohibited. Unauthorised public performance, broadcasting and copying of this All rights in this sound recording, artwork, texts and translations reserved. 8.572651-52 CD 1 Hands Across the Sea • Semper Fidelis The Royal Welch Fusiliers • Sabre and Spurs King Cotton • Pathfinder of Panama This 2 CD set presents 34 of John The Liberty Bell • Hail to the Spirit of Liberty Philip Sousa’s best-loved marches, SOUSA’S GREATESTSOUSA’S MARCHES The Black Horse Troop March including The Washington Post The High School Cadets • Daughters of Texas The Fairest of the Fair • Riders for the Flag which, in the early 1890s, sparked a The Thunderer • The Washington Post huge world-wide dance-craze, The ൿ & The Glory of the Yankee Navy Liberty Bell, used as the signature Ꭿ The Stars and Stripes Forever tune for the BBC comedy Monty 2010 Naxos Rights International Ltd. CD 2 Nobles of the Mystic Shrine Python’s Flying Circus, and The Wisconsin Forward Forever Stars and Stripes Forever, the official The Invincible Eagle • Solid Men to the Front national march of the United States. The Diplomat • The Picador • Jack Tar America First (March of the States) Known affectionately as ‘The March Ancient and Honorable Artillery Co. King’, Sousa personified turn-of-the- The Minnesota March century America, the comparative The Atlantic City Pageant innocence and brash energy of a still Sesqui-Centennial Exposition new nation. Universally acknowleged La Flor di Sevilla • The Corcoran Cadets The National Game • Bullets and Bayonets as the best of the genre, his marches The Naval Reserve March are notable for their vigorous melodic line and unrelenting driving SOUSA’S GREATESTSOUSA’S MARCHES DDD Royal Artillery Band • Keith Brion effect, combined with innovative use of instrumentation and tonal color. A full track list and recording details can be found on pages 2 and 3 of the booklet. 8.572651-52 Producer and editor: Mike Purton www.naxos.com 8.572651-52 Booklet notes: Keith Brion Sousa portait by John J. Capolino, Courtesy ‘The President’s Own’ United States Marine Band, Washington D.C. NAXOS.