The Celebrated Distin Family
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.RES10179

By Anneke Scott, Jeff Miller, Richard Fomison, and Richard Thomas. By Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, Benoit Constant Fauconnier, Gaetano Donizetti, George Frideric Handel, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giuseppe Verdi, Hector Berlioz, James Kent, John Distin, Theodore Distin, and Thomas Augustine Arne. Classical. CD (1 disc). Published by Naxos (NX.RES10179).

The Prince Regent's band, featuring noted brass players, make their recording debut on Resonous Classics with a celebration of the legendary Distin Family. During the mid-nineteenth century the Distin Family blazed a traila cross Europe and North America performing countless concerts and promoting new and exciting designs of brass instruments. The Distins originally performed on a mixture of natural and keyed brass instruments but halfway through their career, thanks to a chance meeting with Adolphe Sax in Paris in 1844, they adopted the new valved brass instruments, and in particular the new "saxhorn", with which their names became synonymous. In "The Celebrated Distin Family", period brass specialists The Prince Regent's Band have recreated the lost Distin Family repertoire, performing on their unique collection of original saxhorns and other fascinating brass instruments of the period.