Twenty original instrumental pieces written, recorded and arranged for woodwind and brass by Peter Weatherall. Here's the story about how this album came into being: in 2005, while I was living in Japan, I met a Japanese woman who ran an ensemble of instrumentalists: mostly they played archaic looking recorders of every shape and size, and were accompanied by a harpsichordist. I offered to compose some original "faux renaissance" pieces for them, and my offer having been accepted, I wrote these 20 pieces in 20 days. We gave a concert of about half of the resulting compositions, with me conducting, not long afterwards in the cultural hall in the city of Dazaifu, and the concert was filmed by the local TV station.

More recently, I have been animating various tracks off this and my other instrumental CDs (notably, Top Brass and Japanese Waltzes), to teach children the instruments, sounds and rhythms of the orchestra, and I have put the results on the DVD: The Teddy Bear Orchestra. Click here to watch a clip.

Click on the Buy Now button above to buy a hard copy of the CD for only US$8.00 (includes postage and packaging to any international destination). And as a bonus my Japanese Waltzes album is included on the CD (so you get a double album for the price of one).

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