Wind Quintet
SKU:
HL.14019938
Composed
by John McCabe. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. Music
Sales #NOV360094.
Published by Music Sales
(HL.14019938).
Post
cards 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.
John Field
