Outstanding brass quintet music, heard any lately?

jon112780 · Post by **jon112780** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 1:43 pm

My brass quintet is having some problems finding some 'neat' brass quintet music, so what are some recomendations (available for purchase) for excellent/eye opening/adrenaline pumping brass quintet music? Length and difficulty are not an issue.

thanks!

phoenix · Post by **phoenix** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:57 pm

Any Ewald quintet (except not the 4th, i just don't like it)

John Cheetham (A Brass Menagerie, really sweet)

porkchopsisgood · Post by **porkchopsisgood** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 6:39 pm

Just played Jan Bach's Rounds and Dances.....good piece to check out.

Others I've played in the past:

Alvin Etler- Quintet (ridiculously difficult, but rewarding)
Vincent Persichetti-Parable for BQ (pretty damn hard, but fun)
Vitold Lutoslowski-Mini Overture (short, but cool)

There's plenty of others out there....check out Ryan Anthony's site; he's listed a huge inventory of the repertoire there....good place to start!

Good luck!

MikeMason · Post by **MikeMason** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:46 am

a fun one I've done was Raise the Roof,by Elizabeth Raum,I think...

kontrabass · Post by **kontrabass** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 2:11 am

Second the kinderzirkus suite - very fun, quirky circus music.
If difficulty is not an issue, check out Ricochet - Kerry Turner. THAT'S some adrenaline right there.
Try also Anthony Plog's 4 Sketches for Brass Quintet.

The best course of action, of course, is to try your hand at arranging yourself. You may surprise yourself!

Charlie Goodman · Post by **Charlie Goodman** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 2:13 pm

The Boston Brass version of "Malaguena" is ridiculously cool. It's pretty difficult, and I think the horn player has to play trumpet, too, but it's excellent if you can pull it off.

Arkietuba · Post by **Arkietuba** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 7:47 pm

"Third Brass Quintet" by Presser

Tim Olt · Post by **Tim Olt** » Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:34 pm

a fun one I've done was Raise the Roof,by Elizabeth Raum,I think...

Actually, Raise the Roof is Gwenyth Walker if memory serves... but Raum does write some wonderful tuba stuff!

TO

hbcrandy · Post by **hbcrandy** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:21 am

Try Tim Keleher's Three Pieces for Brass Quintet. It is published by Hornseth Music and is available through the Robert King catalog. Tim wrote this piece for my recital at the Philadelphia Musical Academy in 1978.

There is a lot of adrenalin-pumping energy in movements 1 & 3. Movement 2 is a beautifully written slow elegeaic musical entity.

The trumpet players will need to switch among Bb, Eb and C trumpets. Tim uses the different trumpets to achieve different tone colors to match the trumpets' roles in the music at the time. The second trumpet will also need Humes & Berg "Clear-Tone" mute for the solo in the first movement. I think Tim marked it as a "Solo-Tone" mute. But, the correct name is "Clear-Tone". It looks like a straight mute stuck into a straight mute.

Years ago, I was involved in a coaching session with American composer, Robert Washburn. We played Tim's quintet for him without telling Mr. Washburn who the composer was and asked him to comment on it. Mr. Washburn's comments were that it was an extremely mature, well-crafted piece. He was quite suprised when he found that Tim wrote the work when he was 19 years old. After finding out about Tim, Mr. Washburn said that he stood by his original comments.

Give it a try. I think you will enjoy it.