This is Rimsky-Korsakov?s Procession of Nobles or Mlada Suite ? No. 5. Cortege, for Clarinet Quartet. This is and advanced transcription of Korsakov?s march and is practical for numerous performance applications. To view and listen to this piece in its entirety as well hundreds of other arrangement and transcriptions by Kenneth Abeling at the lowest prices available please visit: www.lincolnmusicpublications.com. Playing time: 4:30

1. F�r Elise by L. vanBeethoven 2. Marriage of Figaro by W.A Mozart 3. Musette in D by J.S Bach 4. Ode to Joy by L. van Beethoven 5. Rondo Alla Turca by W.A Mozart 6. Surprise Symphony by J. Haydn 7. Swan Lake by P.I Ceaikovsky 8. Lullaby by J. Brahms 9. Can Can by J. Offenbach 10. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by W.A Mozart 11. Gymnopedie No. 1 by E. Satie 12.Gypsy Dance from Carmen by G. Bizet 13. Moonlight Sonata by L. van Beethoven 14.Morning Mood by E. Grieg 15. Anitra's Dance by E. Grieg 16.Hungarian Dance No. 5 by J. Brahms 17. Lascia Ch'io Pianga by G. Haendel 18. Night on Bald Mountain by M. Mussorgsky 19.Scheherezade by N. Rimsky-Korsakov 20.Symphony No. 5 by L. van Beethoven 21.The Swan by C. Saint-Sa�ns

Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumble Bee has been a favorite of audiences since its beginning. His musical picture of a buzzing bee gives musicians a chance to show off their chromatic scale skills. This arrangement by John Gibson let's everyone join in the chromatic fun. It is set for clarinet quartet (3 Bb clarinets and 1 bass clarinet). I listed this as advanced intermediate due to the tempo, but if played slower it is playable by less advanced players. It will keep your group buszzzzzy! 2016 Chamber Music Contest Entry.

Procession of the Nobles (Cort�ge) was written in 1889 as part of the opera Mlada. The Procession is the only part of the opera that is still performed and is the introduction to Act II, which begins with a town festival. The colorful scene bursts to life with a rousing fanfare by the brass.

Keith Terrett has brilliantly arranged this music for Brass Sextet for advanced performers with the following instrumentation:

3 Trumpets in B-flat, Horn, Trombone, and Tuba

Fantasy Sonata, Op. 40 for Trombone and Piano by Benjamin Schroen is a work composed in 1900 which was forgotten and now rediscovered by musicologist and conductor, Dr. Keith Davies Jones.

Fantasy Sonata is written in the same virtuoso style as compositions of that period by Joseph Serafin Alschausky, and though quite challenging, it is fully idiomatic for the trombone. There is a passing ?reference? to the Concerto by Rimsky-Korsakov, and it is just possible that Schroen might have been familiar with that work as a trombonist himself. There are also some stylistic similarities to the Fantasia for trombone and organ Op.58 composed in the mid-19th century by Friedrich August Belcke (1795 ? 1874).

The 6.5-minute work featuring several short cadenzas, contrasting dramatic and expressive sections is in Romantic style, in bass and tenor clef and appropriate for intermediate to advanced performers.

27 November 1860 - 16 April 1935

Ewald was a Russian composer of music, mainly for conical brass instruments.He was born in Saint Petersburg and died in Leningrad. He also collected andpublished Russian folk songs. Ewald?s professional life, like that of many of his musicalcontemporaries, was in an entirely different field; that of a civil engineer, in which heexcelled, being appointed in 1900 as professor and manager of the Faculty ofConstruction Materials at the Institute of Civil Engineers. Brass players however areindebted to him for something very different ? a series of quintets which have becomea staple of the repertoire and which represent almost the only, and certainly the mostextended examples of original literature in the Romantic style. Ewald?s formal musicaltraining began in 1872 when he enrolled at the St Petersburg Conservatory at the ageof twelve. Founded in 1861 by Anton Rubenstein, this institution was the first of itskind in Russia and it was here that Ewald received lessons in cornet, piano, horn,cello, harmony and composition.As an adult he worked alongside fellow musicalnationalists known collectively as the Mighty Handful?Borodin, Mily Balakirev,

C�sar Cui, Modest Mussorgsky and the most famous of all, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

All of these men had ?day jobs? in non-musical fields.
Ewald?s contributions as a composer reflected an abiding love for brass

instruments for which he wrote his quintets scored originally for two cornets, altohorn, baritone horn and tuba.

I've edited these four quartets using Ewald's original instrumentation, but thereare also separate substitute parts for the modern brass quintet (2 trumpets, horn in F,trombone and tuba).