A Portrait of Georges Hugnet-Virgil Thomson's Bacarolle (A Portrait of Georges Hugnet) for Woodwinds.Instrumentation: Flute Oboe English Horn Clarinet Bass Clarinet and Bassoon.

Walden for wind quintet was written in 1978 and commissioned by the Funen Wind Quintet. The title is taken from the American philosopher and poet Henry David Thoreau?s novel from 1854 about living in the woods which Thoreau did for two years.His stay there was an experiment an attempt to strip away all the artificial needs imposed by society and rediscover man?s lost unity with nature. In that particular sense his novel is a documentation of social inadequacy and a work of poetry (Utopia) as well.All thought Thoreau himself never completed any actual social analysis he was way ahead of his own time in his perception of the economy and cyclic character of Nature todayknown as ecology. His ideas are particularly relevant now that pollution caused by society has reached alarming proportions.Walden was written in a style of re-cycling and ?new simplicity?. A lot of superfluous material has been peeled away in order to give space to different qualities such as identity and clarity. Various layers are encountered in the quintet such as the organic (growth flowering Decay) concretism (mechanical patterns) and finally the descriptive (distant horn calls and other ghost-like music of the past enter our consciousness like a dream). Walden consist of four movements.In 1995 another version for reed quintet was written to the Calefax Reed Quintet.?

3 Pieces For Wind Sextet-Wind Sextet. Three jolly pieces for 2 clarinets 2 horns and 2 bassoons originally written for a wedding. Duration: approx 10 minutes.Grade: 6 - 8

For mixed Wind Trio (combinations of flute oboe clarinet saxophone bassoon or cello).

Terrace in 5 Stages for Wind Quintet was composed by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen in 1970.

Flexible Wind Ensemble-Individual parts for all Spartan Press ensembles are available separately quickly and inexpensively. DO NOT PHOTOCOPY.

Ribe-Sørgemarch-Berengâria (Ribe-Sørgemarch) BVN 366 - for Wind Ensemble was composed by Rued Langgaard in 1948.  Instrumentation: 1.0.4.2/2.2.3.2/timp ad lib./perc Score in manuscript copy.

Standard US Set (without european suppl. parts)-Commissioned by the Michigan State University Alumni Band this three movement work by Karel Husa was the winner of the first Louis Sudler International Wind Band Composition Competition in 1983. A note from thecomposer: 'Divided into three movements this work is a display of virtuoso passages given to solo instruments as well as to the groups of the ensemble. In the Fanfare of the first movement the Brass section concertises in groupsof four Brass quintets (2 Trumpets Horn Trombone and Tuba or Baritone) spread from left to right in back. The Saxophones (SATB) are placed in front of the Brass quintets and the Woodwinds occupy the front of the stage withPercussion on the left and right side. These groups like the Brass quintets play in the concertante style particularly in the first and last movements. 'At the same time each movement contains individual solo passages(for example Timpani and Flute in Movement I - Drum Ceremony and English Horn and other low Woodwinds in Movement II - Elegy). The composition of this piece was prompted by the excellence of Wind and Percussion players today andby the incredible growth of Wind ensembles orchestras and bands in the last 25 years. It is intended for their enjoyment.'

Flexible Wind Ens. + Perc-An upbeat 'big band' style ensemble for a minimum of just four players. The set includes an optional drum-kit part.Grade: 3 - 6

Leos Janacek almost seventy years old characterised the wind sextet he had just finished as 'a kind of memory of youth' in a letter to Kamila Stösslová. The suite Youth was written in the summer of 1924 prompted by the composer's need to take stock on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Janacek also heard the Parisian ensemble Societe moderne des instruments a vent several times in Salzburg and Brno. He expanded the classic quintet scoring by the addition of a bass clarinet.Janacek referred to an earlier part of his life in this work not only by quoting a theme from March of the Blue Boys but particularly through his general freshness ofexpression astute humour and use of form which adhered to the classical style.The piece was enthusiastically received by both critics and the public and appeared in print as early as 1925 issued by the Prague publisher Hudebni matice.Wind sextet in the classical styleUrtext based on the Critical Complete Edition of the Works of Leos JanacekNew foreword by Jiri Zahradka (Cz/Eng/Ger)

For 18 Wind Instruments.Published in 1994 and revised with a new movement in 2011.Movement 1 commissioned by the Halle Concerts Society was first performed by Halle Orchestra wind directed by Ole Schmidt Free Trade Hall Manchester 23rd February 1995.Instrumentation.3 Flutes (Inc. Piccolo)2 OboesCor Anglais3 Clarinets (Inc. Bass Clarinet)3 Bassoons (Inc.Contrabassoon)4 Horns2 Trumpets 

For 18 Wind Instruments.Published in 1994 and revised with a new movement in 2011.Movement 1 commissioned by the Halle Concerts Society was first performed by Halle Orchestra wind directed by Ole Schmidt Free Trade Hall Manchester 23rd February 1995.Instrumentation.3 Flutes (Inc. Piccolo)2 OboesCor Anglais3 Clarinets (Inc. Bass Clarinet)3 Bassoons (Inc.Contrabassoon)4 Horns2 Trumpets 

A Masque (short for Masquerade) has been defined by Historians as 'A revel in which Mummers or masked folk come with torches blazing into the festive hall and call upon the company to dance and dice' . The chaos of this dramatic dance is depicted in this Masque by Hesketh. The main theme is bravura and is often present in the background. The form of the piece is a simple scherzo-trio-scherzo. Colourful scoring (upper wind solos trumpet and horn solos alternating with full bodied tuttis) with a dash of wildness may tease both player and listener to let their hair down a little! Masque has been transcribed for wind band by Kenneth Hesketh from his Scherzo forOrchestra commissioned by the National Children's Orchestra in 1987.