This CD represents contemporary wind band literature. Karel Husa is the field’s king. For the first time in his 80-year history, someone has amassed a collection of this Wind Band Master’s music. This CD accentuates rarely recorded works of his Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble with Jonathan Sokasits, piano and Concerto for Percussion and Wind Ensemble. This double CD displays Husa’s emotional title track Apotheosis of This Earth. Al Fresco, Divertimento for Brass and Percussion, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert Band, Steven Mauk, saxophone, and Husa’s famous Smetana Fanfare rounds out the CD. The recording is done in the perfect style to display the vivid colors, shapes and images this music demands. This double CD will be as hot as the summer temperatures.