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Composed for a quintet which included the composer's bassoonist son, Mark Popkin. A tremendous original composition for the wind quintet repertoire.

This quintet is like a sonorous excursion. In fact, it is inspired in the memories of a school visit to Añavingo's gully in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). The orography and the singing of the birds...

Mother Goose Suite fu originariamente composta per pianoforte a quattro mani e successivamente ampliata in un balletto. Questa versione per quintetto di fiati presenta tutti i passaggi solistici prefe...

for Wind Quintet. A charming arrangement of this popular work. Would be terrific for any performance setting, or as an encore. Also excellent for student use.

for Wind Quintet. A story about children who live on the prairie, the movements depict the dawning of a new day, winter games, the peacefulness after a winter storm, and the crows return bringing the...

Lodewijk Mortelmans was born in Antwerp on February 5, 1868, as second son of printer Karel Mortelmans. He died on June 24, 1952. He was an outstanding, universal Belgian musician and composer. His un...

Originally scored for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, and 2 bassoons, these two movements are attractively arranged for a standard wind quintet. A grand addition to many programs.

Hans Aerts (°1958) studied at the conservatory of Antwerp (clarinet), the conservatory of Brussels (counterpoint and fugue) and the Lemmens Institute in Leuven (composition). His oeuvre consists of ov...

for Wind Quintet. Composed while Grieg was visiting Norway's scenic fjords, these dances are built on a well-known collection of folk music by fellow Norwegian Ludvig Lindeman, with material added by...

Originally for piano, this characteristic Two-Step was composed by an amazing woman in the Ragtime era. Creatively arranged for flute and trombone, and a great crowd pleaser!

for Wind Quintet. This suite was inspired by the composer's two-year stay in the region of the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee some fifty years ago. It is based on his composition for Flute Ch...

for Wind Quintet. Well, the title about says it all. This piece is quirky, jazzy, a lot of fun to play, and makes a great addition to the standard quintet repertoire. It is a hard piece to explain, so...

for Wind Quintet. Hassidic Medley; Meditation; Butcher's Dance Music based on the folk tunes and dances of the Yiddish-speaking Jews of Eastern Europe. Lots of fun for everybody and there is a great c...

Barnum and Bailey's Favorite, is often referred to as 'The Granddaddy of Circus Marches.' Karl King was asked by the bandmaster of the Barnum and Bailey Circus to write a march for the circus, and thi...

for Soprano Saxophone and Trumpet. An innovative work composed for a unique combination of instruments. Written in three movements, the first, Vertical, focuses more on the virtuosity of the soprano s...

for Wind Quintet. Six short movemets (De Vienne, De l'Arabie, De la Bohême, De la Suisse, De la Grèce, De l'Afrique) written by Italian composer Leonello Capodaglio intended to conjure up...

The Fourth Movement consists of two charming Minuets scored principally for winds. This work, Brahms' first orchestral publication which was arranged by the composer for eight string and wind instrume...

Originally published in 1873 when Brahms was 40. He reputedly had destroyed twenty prior quartets as being unworthy of an heir to Beethoven's throne. ('You have no idea how a man like myself feels whe...

The composer's only string quartet to be published and publicly performed during his lifetime. All four movements arranged here by Mark Popkin. Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet (in A), Horn, Bas...

Composed when Dvorak was 38 and had achieved international fame. The 2nd movement is a 'dumka,' a Slavonic form which consists of contrasting melodic and rhythmic sections. Instrumentation: Flute, Obo...

for Wind Quintet. Written in 1893, this is Debussy's only string quartet. This, along with 'Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faune' (1892-94) and 'Baudelaire Songs'(1890), comprises Debussy's incipient mus...