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Lotta Wennäkoski's Mien (2014) for wind quintet is based on rippling, wavering, timbre changing effect of bisbigliando. The good-humoured piece has a swinging jingle, and with duration of approximatel...

One of Dvorak's most famous works, this beautiful arrangement allows the oboist to play the familiar excerpt on the English Horn, and then switch over to the oboe for the middle section of the movemen...

Fünf Musiker:innen spielen exakt fünf Minuten lang fünf Instrumente. Die Form ist streng bemessen, das Verhältnis 3:2 gilt als oberstes Gebot, die Ziffern 3 und 2 sind zentrale Motive. Diese Form ist...

1st voice in C (flute) 1st voice in Bb (clarinet) 1st voice in Eb (alto saxophone/Eb clarinet) 1st voice in Bb (trumpet/flugelhorn/clarinet/soprano sax. 2nd voice in Eb (alto saxophone) 2nd voice in B...

1a voce in Do (flauto) 1a voce in Sib (clarinetto/sassofono soprano) 2a voce in Sib (clarinetto/tromba) 2a voce in Mi (sax. contralto) 3a voce in Sib (clarinetto basso) 3a voce in Sib (tuba) 3a voce i...

Quartetto di fiati in strumentazione variabile (ottoni, legni, anche strumentazione corale mista). Questi due brani tratti dall'"Oratorio de Noel", op. 12 (1858) dell'importante compositore romantico...

This is a straightforward; yet beautiful arrangement of the famous tune. It will require sensitive musicianship and good technique; but is such a fine piece; it practically plays itself.

Reverie celebrates the wonderfully lyrical voices of the 'traditional' wind quintet - blending together as five singers; yet remaining distinct as individual voices. The work opens and closes as the v...

Since first composing It Takes Four to Tango in 1990 for a clarinet quartet, Dorff has been asked to transcribe/arrange the piece for various instrumental ensembles, with many of the arrangements avai...

The depth and charming inventiveness of Harberg's Suite can only be described as remarkable. Each movement has a degree of archaic inspiration (seen in the movement titles), newly stirred up into dram...

Perfect for pops concerts, SUITE NO. 3 provides a quaint time capsule of jazz-inspired classical music from 1939, soon after Gershwin's death, and just before the hard-edged modern jazz of the 1940s....

There is a refreshing spontaneity to Samuel Adler's WIND CONVERSATIONS for woodwind quintet. The slow introduction explores the timbres of the ensemble in glowing and harmonious polyphony, while the m...

This 5 minute concert opener is sure to start any program with an energetic bang. With a steady rhythmic groove, section solos and a soaring melodic lines, Leshnoff's style in writing accessible, dyna...

Siegfried Idyll was first performed in 1870 on Christmas Day in Wagner's home with a small 13 piece orchestra. It was written as a birthday present for his second wife, Cosine, a year after the birth...

An arrangement for wind quintet from an early piano piece. Quintessential Arnold!