Esa-Pekka Salonen's Memoria For Wind Quintet. This work was written as a gift for the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra on their 20th anniversary. It was first performed on 30th November 2003 at the HelsinkiConservatoire Finland by members of the Avanti! Chamber Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Duration c. 12 minutes Parts available: SOS15785.

Programme Note WHIRLS´ WORLD (1970) for wind quintet. 'Whirl´s World' was composed in 1970 as one of a series of works which explored the so-called musical ´difference-phenomenon´. This term (which I coined in connection with a series of lectures in California that year) indicates a motivic duplicity in which two - often very simple - melodic ideas come ´out of phrase´ with each other giving rise to a course of constantly changing conditions. In Whirl´s World the difference phenomenon is heard from the beginning where a three-note motif and a four-note motif are set against each other. It all proceeds lake a lightning-fast series of chess moves; first notenumber 1 of the three-note motif is moved then note number 1 of the four-note motif thereafter note number 2 of the three-note motif - and so on. This fast opening flows into a slow section in which the differences now appear as ´fluctuations´ between very closely related tones (of which one is sung by the musician). There is only one movement built up as an organic growth from slow to furiously fast whirling and back again to slow which can be heard as ´slow-motion whirls´ as a water-world of ripples and bubbles. All this is framed by the introduction described above and a corresponding conclusion in which the movement is now descending ending in the resolute bass full-stop. Per Norgård

The Easy Winners was composed by Scott Joplin in 1901 and is said to be one of his favourite rags. In the current revival of Joplin's rags The Easy Winners enjoys a special popularity which it justly deserves. It has been skillfully arranged for Woodwind Quintet by Anthony Iannoccone.The score and individual parts are all included.

Work for Double Woodwind Quintet based on the sixteenth century French popular song A l’ombre d’un buissonet first printed in La Couronne et Fleur (1536).