Brass Quintet Recital

[jeopardymaster]

Tons of good choices. Arnold. Cheetham's Brass Menagerie. Koetsier. Andre Previn's 4 Outings or Bozza if you're really brave. If you're not, maybe Calvert's Three Dance Impressions. If you expect to be tired, maybe something in a more popular vein - Jack Gale's stuff all sounds great, is written characteristically for brass, doesn't usually kill the chops and most of it can be put together fairly quickly.

One piece of advice: if you program a quintet on your recital, for that number you are the leader whether it's a "pickup" quintet or not.

[BVD Press]

As the new owner of Music Express(about two weeks ago), I vote for Jack Gale.

Just search "Gale" or "Music Express" on various sites and you will get a listing. I am working on a catalog in between and on flights and should have one available shortly.

Some other composers to consider:

Ewazen, Ewald, Collier Jones, Maurer, Pezel, Kerry Turner, etc.

From the Phillie Airport,

[Matt G]

From a list I sold:

(Ignore the seasonal stuff)

You can tell that I, at one time, would agree with the Jack Gale comment. His works are very well voiced in the quintet setting and sound good out front.

Empire Brass Library

1. Earle of Oxford’s Marche (Byrd)
2. Fanfarinette (Rameau)
3. Turkish March (Beethoven)
4. Triumphal March (Verdi)
5. La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin [The Girl with the Flaxen Hair] (Debussy)
6. Pavane for a Dead Princess (Ravel)
7. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach)
8. Basse Danse Bergeret (Susato)
9. Festive Overture (Shostakovich)

Other Brass Ensemble Music

1. Music for Weddings vol.1 [quintet] (Holcombe)
2. Music for Weddings vol. 2 [quintet] (Battles)
3. When Johnny Comes Marching Home [quintet] (Holcombe)
4. 12 Day of Christmas [quintet] (Holcombe)
5. A Christmas Jazz Suite [quintet] (Holcombe)
6. The House of the Rising Sun [quintet] (Holcombe)
7. Ewald Quintet No. 1
8. Twelve Christmas Carols [quintet, one book per part] (Gale)
9. The Star Spangled Banner [quintet] (Holcombe)
10. West Side Story [quintet] (Gale)
11. Kyrie from Mass in F [quintet] (Bach/Dishinger)
12. Earle of Oxford’s Marche [quintet] (Byrd/Dishinger)
13. Granger Suite [quintet] (Kreines)
14. Napoli Revisited [quintet] (Hoffman)
15. A Carol Festival [brass choir, 12 part, score missing] (Ades)
16. Quintet (Arnold) [score only]
17. Canzone e Sonate [4 trumpets, 2 trombones] (Gabrielli)
18. Suite of Carols [brass choir, 14 part, no score] (Anderson) cover worn
19. The Turtle Waddle [sextet] (Guentzel)
20. Canzona Bergamasca [quintet] (Scheidt)
21. Canzona per Sonare No.1 [quintet] (Gabrieli)
22. Canzona per Sonare No.2 [quintet] (Gabrieli)
23. Canzona per Sonara No.3 [quintet] (Gabrieli)
24. Quintet for Brass Instruments (Zindars)
25. Contrapunctus V [quintet] (Bach)
26. Sonata No.3 [quintet] (Pezel)
27. Sonata No.1 [quintet] (Pezel)
28. Es Ist Ein Ros’ Entsprungen [quintet] (Brahms)
29. Sonata from Die Bankelsangerlieder [quintet] (Anonymous)
30. Fanfare for the Common Man [brass choir, 12 part, percussion] (Copland)
31. Pastorale [sextet] (Corelli)
32. Song of the Wayfarer – Alla Marcia [quintet or choir] (Mahler/Haislip)
33. Four Essays for Brass Quintet (Riley)
34. Fanfare (from “La Peri”) [quintet] (Dukas/Harrington)

[Casey Tucker]

i would suggest: suite from the monteregian hills by morley calvert. great four mvt. piece that gives everyone a chance to play some great music. if your looking for something a little harder, 4 sketches by anthony plog is great. it takes a little while to learn but it's great piece. Gale's arrangements are fun to play and easy to alter to fit your quintet's needs. for example: we did the porgy and bess arrangement and had a great time. we however, decided to alter some endings and certain small passages to really give ourselves some freedom within the music and to make the piece seem more connected.

-CT

[BVD Press]

i would suggest: suite from the monteregian hills by morley calvert. great four mvt. piece that gives everyone a chance to play some great music.

Great chart, but a quick word of warning:

There are two versions floating around:

1. The old handwritten and really hard to read version
2. The new typeset version which is really well done and easy to read

If you will be borrowing it from the school library and they have the old version, you may want to request that they order the new version. It will save a ton of rehearsal time! If you or the library are going to purchase it from a dealer, please check to see which version they have in stock. The new version has been out almost 2 years, but the dealer may still have the older version in stock. The new version will eliminate a lot of questions during rehearsal and it is has great page turns!

On the road in the kid's section of the Palm Coast Public Library,

[Tom Beck II]

I've acquired lots of great arrangements for BQ made by Zack Smith & Charlie Peterson many of which are PDF and modest in cost. They have the following headings: CLASSICAL, RELIGIOUS, POP/JAZZ, CHRISTMAS and HANUKKAH. There are audio samples and we have received favorable responses when we've played them.
Here's their web address: http://www.trumpetunes.com/publications.html" target="_blank" target="_blank
Have fun putting a program together.
Tom2

[Jay Young]

Any of the Evald Quintets are great! I've played 1 and 3. Both are lots of fun.

I'd echo Mr. Dougherty's warning. I played off the old hand written version and it's really difficult to see many of the notes in the last movement. Monteregian Hills is an incredibly fun piece! Especially the 3rd movement.

[BVD Press]

Ya we had the old handwritten version in sharpie, that was a blast trying to sightread. Poor trombone player had to handwrite his part

My quintet played off the old version for a while. I then stuck it into the computer so we could read it. I offered it to the publisher for free, but was told they did not want it. I found out a month or two later they had other plans which was to release their own version!

Ewald's are great. Just be sure to get a good solid version. I try not plug myself a lot, although some may disagree, I did all three in a book and I think they came out quite nicely. Both the Tuba Journal and the ITG did reviews which were quite positive.

Enough plugging, I need to get back to entering notes....