Cataclysms was composed in 2019 by the Hungarian composer Roland Szentpali (*1977) for the Swiss Brass Band Competition in Montreux as an own choice piece. The title is the term for large scale, all-destructive natural disasters. In his programmatic work, the composer describes three natural disasters, which are described with precise subtitles:

Tsunami

In the introductory section the coast is calm and the birds are chirping but yet, you feel a certain discomfort in the music. Soon the mus...