Where can I find recordings of Moravian trombone choir music?
There are two particularly good commercially available recordings. The above-mentioned Lost Music of Early America: Music of the Moravians by the Boston Baroque (Telarc CD-80482, issued 1998) includes a couple of trombone choir pieces, played by members of the Boston Shawm and Sackbut Ensemble. Very nice performances, done on period instruments. It doesn’t say on the disk, but it sounds as if they are playing on small-bore SATB trombones (typical of late 18th- and early 19th-century Moravian congregations) rather than sackbuts. The two trombone choir chorales are a kind of appendix to the main series of performances, which comprises a series of three lovefeasts (see below). As a bonus, Lost Music includes a second disc, a 20-minute lecture by the Boston Baroque’s director, Martin Pearlman, which is a fine introduction to Moravian musical traditions. The disk itself is also available through the MMF publications page. Click here to read another review of this disk. Probably the most imp
