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LOUIS DOWDESWELL
Released 2 November 2026
Arrangements by Callum Au
Ten of the best-known pieces of classical music ever written, reimagined for high-intensity big band and symphonic brass, played by 40 of the finest musicians in Britain.
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A note from Louis
Hello, Louis here. In 2020, after my first album, Callum Au and I asked one question: what would the greatest music ever written sound like, arranged with everything we have? Not a crossover record. Not light versions of the classics. The real pieces, taken seriously and rebuilt for high-intensity big band and, where the music demands it, a full symphonic brass orchestra.
That became the mission. Take ten pieces everyone knows and give them arrangements that have never existed before, played by the finest musicians in Britain. Swing where nobody has dared to swing. Pure brass where the original deserves it. Comedy where the music is asking for it. And at the centre, Pictures at an Exhibition with all forty musicians on one track.
Six years of work later, this is it. Recorded at Masterchord Studios and St Peter's Church, Chiswick. Mixed by Nick Pugh. Mastered by Gavin Lurssen in Los Angeles. It is the best-sounding thing I have ever made, and I genuinely believe there is nothing else out there like it.
The programme
Louis Dowdeswell · Arrangements by Callum Au
The after-party
The album on CD in the illustrated six-panel digipack, with the liner notes printed inside.
The marquee artwork as a print, shipped rolled in a tube. Made for the wall next to the record shelf.
The collector's format
12″ double vinyl.
Estimated delivery: early 2027. Vinyl checks out on its own, since it ships on its own.
Cadogan Hall, London · Monday 2 November 2026 · 7:30pm
The big band and the symphonic brass orchestra together on one stage, playing the album in full on the night it comes out. It's my last UK solo concert for the foreseeable future. This is the show I've been dreaming about for six years.
If you're coming: choose "Collect at Cadogan Hall" at checkout and I'll hand you your signed copy myself.