For Brass Quintet-Joseph Horovitz. Suite of five pieces for brass quintet: two trumpets horn trombone and tuba. Full Score.This work was composed in 1964 at the request of the well known American tuba player Roger Bobo. It was soon taken into the repertoire of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble who gave the first BBC broadcast. The first recording was on Pye records by the Hallé Brass Ensemble. Since then it has become a regular repertoire piece and recorded as well as broadcast all over the world.The Suite consists of five movements all illustrating aspects of the Burlesque Theatre Music Hall circus and cabaret so popular at the end of the 19th century and into the 20th. The titlesof the short movements are: Soubrette Song Trick Cyclists Adagio Team Soft Shoe Shuffle and Les Girls.The five orchestral brass instruments (two trumpets horn trombone and tuba) are exploited in a chamber music manner but the cumulative effect has a theatrical quality in keeping with the title.

4 Original Pieces for Brass Quintet. Palaces, castles and chateaus ? we associate music with all these buildings, whether for exhilarating celebrations, high holidays and tournaments: these are all occasions that would have been unthinkable without music and for which there were dances in many different rhythms. This is exactly the kind of music we find in this newly written composition.

Op. 33 for Brass Quintet. Commissioned by the Three Choirs Festival 1992 and premiered by the London Gabrieli Brass Consort.This is a short piece for brass quintet in one movement. The polyphony of the introduction gives wayto massed chords which in turn lead to the first main section. This is a funeral march during which all the instruments have solos in turn. The trombone is first then trumpet I; horn; later in duet with trumpet II; finallythere is long solo for the tuba.The second section is a series of fanfares on trumpets joined by the horn which alternate with successive phrases of a chorale melody on the lower instruments - horn trombone and tuba. MitFried and Freud ich far dahin is Martin Luther’s masterly and very beautiful re-creation in German of the Nunc dimittus. The massed chords of the introduction then return and the piece ends with the polyphony with which itbegan.Parts available: SOS04782

12 Intermediate Pieces for Brass Quintet-12 Intermediate Pieces for Brass Quintet. The Canadian Brass - the phenomenally successful globe-trotting brass quintet that plays to audiences of thousands well over 100 times a year and is the bestselling classical crossovergroup in recorded history - doesn't exactly play weddings! However there is excellent music for wedding services from their repertoire collected from their extensive educational publications for brass quintet. Contents: Air fromWater Music (Handel) Air on the G String (Bach) Bridal Chorus (Wagner) Canon (Pachelbel) Fanfare from Orfeo (Monteverdi) Largo from Xerxes (Handel) Prayer from Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck) Rondeau (Mouret) Trumpet Tuneand Ayre (Purcell) Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke) Trumpet Voluntary (Purcell) Wedding March (Mendelssohn).

Teil I-Water Music - Suite I: 2 Trumpets Horn Trombone Tuba.Handel's world-known Water Music belongs to the most performed pieces by the composer. It is an example of a Baroque composition written for open air concerts in this case for the grandiose music productions at the River Thames.The arrangement of selected compositions from the 1st and 2nd suite of Handel's Water Music for Wind Quintet was done by the professor of Prague Conservatory Antonin Vaigl.Also available Suite II H7648.

Short light-hearted and tuneful piece for a brass quintet consisting two trumpets horn trombone and tuba. This is a one-movement rag that is not difficult and employs many devices characteristic of this kind of music such as glissandi and strong dynamic contrasts.