(Suite from China West for Woodwind Quintet). By Chen Yi (1953-). Woodwind quintet. For Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, French Horn, Bassoon. Antara Winds at Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY. Score and parts. Standard notation. Composed 2008. Duration 12 minutes

Wind Quintet

SKU: HL.14019938

Composed by John McCabe. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV360094. Published by Music Sales (HL.14019938).

Postcards was written in 1991 for the Vega Wind Quintet, who first performed it at the Huddersfield Festival in the same year. It is a reworking of a set of eight Bagatelles written in 1965: each movement has been rewritten and enlarged to a greater or lesser extent. The title was chosen to emphasise the nature of the pieces, which are in a sense brief postcards from different genres (fugato, dance, etc).

John McCabe (1939-2015) was a British composer, pianist and music administrator. He studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music and built a career as a virtuoso pianist. However, he also wrote several hundred musical compositions,ranging from large-scale orchestral works to chamber music and solo instrumental pieces - it is said the only classical genre he did not write for was opera.