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Broughton - Three American Portraits

Fun, difficult and new last year!

Quintet - Jan Koetsier

A Diversion by Norman Symonds (It's on one of the early Canadian Brass recordings)

In the dusty past category: the Bellon quintets; the Axel Jorgensen quintet, maybe the Thorvald Hansen...

Verne Reynolds - Suite for Brass Quintet

Out of print and hard to find, but a great piece to play and listen to!

Victor Ewald - Symphony for Brass Quintet - no. 1 is my favourite of the 4 he wrote

Geotuba wrote:Victor Ewald - Symphony for Brass Quintet - no. 1 is my favourite of the 4 he wrote

Er, wasn't the so-called No. 4 just a transcription (by someone else) of his string quartet Op. 1?

"No Comment" by Juraj Filas.

Bozza Sonatine

Chuck(G) wrote:

Geotuba wrote:Victor Ewald - Symphony for Brass Quintet - no. 1 is my favourite of the 4 he wrote

Er, wasn't the so-called No. 4 just a transcription (by someone else) of his string quartet Op. 1?

Not identified as such on Wikipedia - not that that is exactly definitive

Frackenpohl
"Frostfire" Ewazen

Geotuba wrote:Not identified as such on Wikipedia - not that that is exactly definitive

If it looks like this, that should answer the question. It also exists in piano reduction (done by someone else).

It's not a bad string quartet, but it's very weak as a brass quintet. The Alyabev was once thought to be an original brass quintet has also turned out to be a string quartet.

Bach - "My Spirit Be Joyful" - the one with the running tuba part. Not "officially" published, but was in the trumpet journal a few years back and almost everyone has it.

There's a fun piece (not at all serious) that may work as an encore here.

Geotuba wrote:

Chuck(G) wrote:

Geotuba wrote:Victor Ewald - Symphony for Brass Quintet - no. 1 is my favourite of the 4 he wrote

Er, wasn't the so-called No. 4 just a transcription (by someone else) of his string quartet Op. 1?

Not identified as such on Wikipedia - not that that is exactly definitive

I believe Chuck(G) is right on this one. He wrote 3 Brass Quintets, the "4th" one is a transcription of a string quartet - with a 5th part being pulled out of the 4 parts. Not to mention that they didn't even bother to change the keys in edition Ive seen. Don't waste your money on that one.

Holmboe - Quintet No.1 (the third movement is difficult to put together ensemble-wise--very Scandinavian sounding)

Husa - Divertimento (One of my favorites)

Turner - Ricochet

Shostaklovitch/Smedvig - Festive Overture (you DID say that there were no technical limitations for your trumpets)

Vizzuti - Prelude and Presto

Kamen - Quintet (One of the last compositions by Michael Kamen for the Canadian Brass. AWESOME piece. Much shorter than the name implies--~4.5 minutes of adagio. Don't resolve the suspended fourth at the end.)

Nyman - Masque Arias (minimalist--won't appeal to very many people, but I dig it)

Maslanka - Arise

Long - Five Maskers (contemporary, Chinese, hard, expensive to buy)

Cheetham - Brass Menagerie

Danielpour - Urban Dances (He wrote several pieces with this title---be sure to get the quintet one.)

Kelly - Suite Parisienne (maybe out of print?)



Kyle

Jan Bach

Rounds and Dances

and please, no Ewald...

just my .02c

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Ewald (any)
Cheetham Scherzo
Just a Closer Walk
Brass Quintet, Arnold
Canzona Bergamasca
Contrapunctus IX

Doc, These seem to me the most requested / often performed BQ pieces in recital. They are great standards, excellent student recital pieces. BUT there is soo much more!

The problem is that people do love these pieces. I remember a tour, we just couldn't play the scherzo one more time! They were so disappointed!!! Every recital they came and specifically asked why we didn't fit it in!!

I want to hear Bloke and his group lay it out. The Rounds and Dances are tough and interesting!!! about 20 minutes of inventive brass music.

My group is getting the Brass Menagerie (cheetham) together, and am looking at the Morning Music by Sampson to fill out some other pieces we have worked up. We try to get about maybe 45 + minutes of music for an hour show. No intermission.

There are some new arrangements from Craig Gardner that are awesome: Ancient Airs and Dances, Resphigi; and Mahler's Adagietto. Andrew Kissling came out with a new Scheidt arrangement of Galliard Battaglia.

If you're asking, I can keep going!!! and going... and going...

I just played "Passages" by Caratini (I think that's the correct spelling). Pretty cool piece. A little difficult to put together, but I think it's worth the effort and it's quite fun to play!

Anyone else know this tune?

Doc wrote:Sheidt is good!

Scheidt is good shite. Particularly Centone V.

Horovitz "Music Hall Suite" isn't played nearly enough.

Collier Jones "Four Moods for Five Brass"