Stratoscape by Swiss composer Gauthier Dupertuis is a very colourful and contrasting work for wind orchestra that describes the view of our planet from the stratosphere. It is a pictorial journey, but also metaphorical, as it is a distancing from our world.

The work is divided into five sections:

I Ignition! (Ignition of the Engines!), II Broadness & The Big Blue, III Stars Shining from Down to Above, IV Destructive Forces, V One & Only Home.

Five contrasting movements, beginning with I...