Ensembles

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...

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...

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 important and significant work, written in London in 1942 and now published for the first time: 60 years later! The first movement is tuneful and full of those surprises Malcolm loves to introduce...

Unpublished for over sixty years, this typically characterful work is very much in the style of Sir Malcolm's great film scores of the fifties and sixties.

Music from the film, Hobson's Choice, arranged for wind octet (2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons).

An arrangement for wind quintet of five movements from Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks.

Eine Türkenoper, so klassifizierte man die Opéra-comique "Le calife de Bagdad (Der Kalif von Bagdad)" des französischen Komponisten Adrien Boieldieu. Das Lib-retto verfasste Claude Godard d'Aucourt...

Von den frühen Flötenvariationen TrV 76 bis zum Hornkonzert op. 11: Diese Ausgabe macht Richard Strauss’ differenzierten Umgang mit Blasinstrumenten wissenschaftlich fundiert und praktisch erfahrbar....