Beethoven/ Boxwood & Brass - Beethoven Transformed 1Following on from their universally acclaimed debut album, Music for a Prussian Salon, the period wind ensemble Boxwood & Brass returns to Resonus with the first of two volumes of Beethoven Transformed. In this major new project, the group explores the status of wind music in early nineteenth century Vienna through original and arranged music by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 1827) and his contemporaries. In this first album, Beethoven's Op. 71 Sextet is

Lewis was actually in the band Stonebolt and replaced John Webster on keyboards in 1981

Is a reinterpretation of Allen Ginsberg's classic 1954 poem 'Howl' wherein Penny

All these works inspired by national music are contemporary with the political turbulence that agitated Europe between the two world wars

Over 30 years after their formation

based on the book by physicist and author Brian Greene

which does not possess the monotony of a chant nor the affectation of what is best described as 'sing-song'

Long Ryder guitarist/mandolinist Sid Griffin states

A fresh meeting of the Italian double bassist Giuseppe Millaci

very much in the style of the Eagles

Desolation's Flower

a set of 22 variations on a wide-ranging and richly contrasted theme

• We Rock Hard would become their most commercially successful release to date and this reissue cherry picks four of the biggest tracks from the album