Donald Hunsberger's arrangement of the Gershwin is excellent, and the piece is a natural for winds. There weren't many places where I really missed the strings, though the arrangement does highlight some aspects of the score which tend to get buried in other recordings, lending the performance a unique sound.  Overall, the interpretation is slower and more leisurely than other performances I'm familiar with.  In the light of so many other excellent available recordings, I can't see myself returning to this performance too often - it's more of a curiosity than anything else, though not without merit.  Steven Bryant's "Radiant Joy" struck me as the most successful of the newer repertoire; an accessible piece in the post-John Adams mold which somehow manages to feature the hi-hat cymbals without sounding inane.  The appeal of the piece is primarily rhythmic, as it owes a clear debt to the complex syncopations of funk or jazz fusion. Catchy melodic ideas and extensive use of some less-common colors (piano, vibraphone, and soprano and baritone saxophones) add to the interest as well. --MusicWeb-International, Benn Martin, August 2008