Crusell, Bernhard Henrik / Beethoven, Ludwig van: Fantasy on Swedish National Melodies / Septet in E flat

CDS 1080-2 Bernhard Crusell (1775-1838): Fantasy on Swedish National Melodies, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Septet in E Flat, Op. 20 (arr. Crusell). Ostgöta Blåsarsymfoniker conducted by Olof Boman. 

The second wind-band Crusell release from this label offers a 13-minute folk song potpourri (one of the composer’s last works, dating from 1836) and his arrangement of Beethoven’s well-known septet (when done and for what purpose the notes leave us in the dark).