"Toccata and Fugue in D minor - J.S. Bach" genre: Baroque
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	1977 direct-to-disk recording of one of the CB's most favorite arrangements. -- One might approach a brass quintet arrangement of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor with some skepticism. Yet a mere 5 brass players cope with the endless (and breathless) running passages and the keyboard figurations of the piece in an outstanding demonstration of the brilliance of the Canadian Brass.
	MP3.com CD: Canadian Brass - Almost Live - buy it! CD: Canadian Brass   Label: Umbrella Credits: Fred Mills, arranger
	Story Behind the Song Most commercial discs are recorded first on a multi-track tape and then mixed down to a stereo 2-track tape master which is used for production. The Direct-to-Disc method eliminated all tape stages. The microphones fed directly to the lathe used for production, so that the "take" had to be perfect. The Direct-to-Disc method reduced the amount of material that it was possible to record. As the master wore out after a limited number of records had been made, usually a high-grade back-up tape was recorded simultaneously to preserve the performance. Fortunately, in the case of this Canadian Brass performance, the back-up tape was a state-of-the-art 30 IPS master, with no noise reduction. Members of Canadian Brass at the time of this recording: Fred Mills, Ron Romm - trumpets; Graeme Page - French horn; Gene Watts - trombone; Chuck Daellenbach - tuba

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