Bob Merill

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...

für Bläserquintett. Nur 10 Jahre nach Debussys Quartett geschrieben, schrieb Debussy an Ravel: "Im Namen der Götter der Musik und meines eigenen, ändern Sie nichts an Ihrem Quartett". Vier Sätze insge...

Inspiriert von den Klavierwalzern Franz Schuberts, wurden diese ursprünglich für Klavier geschrieben und später orchestriert. Eine bemerkenswerte Transkription von acht Sätzen, die nahtlos ineinander...

for Double Wind Quintet and Bass. As described by Clara Schumann: 'I cannot find words to express the joy it gives me; it is miraculously beautiful.' A major work for this unique ensemble. Five moveme...

Composed for piano solo and later arranged for small orchestra, this transcription contains seven movements and maintains all the solos from the orchestral version. Scored for Wind Quintet, the Flute...

for Wind Quintet. What would Broadway and Hollywood have done without Borodin? All four movements of this well-known work are well adapted to the woodwind quintet.

for Wind Quintet. One of the six 'Haydn' quartets, subtitled 'The Hunt' as suggested by its jolly, bouncing 6/8 rhythm of the opening subject. This happy mood is sustained through most of the work wit...

Originally published in 1865 for strings. A dedicatory phrase appears in the first movement - A-G-A-D-B-E - referring to a woman with whom Brahms fell in love named Agathe von Seebolt. The composer re...

From the orchestral arrangement of Arensky's 'Quartet No. 2' for strings, based on one of Tchaikovsky's 'Sixteen Songs for Children, Op. 54' (The Legend). This beautiful short set of variations works...

The third and last of Brahms' string quartets is his most light-hearted, beginning with a bouncing, jovial hunting theme, and concluding in the fourth movement with a gently melodic theme and variatio...

This is an adaptation of the orchestration done by Tchaikovsky in his Fourth Suite for Orchestra, 'Mozartiana.' Great, challenging variations! Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet (in A), Horn, Bass...

Eine der berühmtesten Melodien von Maurice Ravel, arrangiert für Doppel-Bläserquintett mit Kontrafagott (oder Kontrafagott) von Mark A. Popkin. Dieses Stück wurde ursprünglich 1899 für Klavier komponi...

This is an adaptation of Mozart's Adagio, K. 540, originally composed for solo piano. Though originally in the key of B minor, here it has been transposed to C minor to better suit the instruments on...

Camille Saint-Saens' well-loved Sonata for Clarinet has been masterfully orchestrated by William F. Bryant. It works so well, you wonder why Saint-Saens didn't write it for clarinet and orchestra in t...

A staple of the oboe repertoire, this is an arrangement of the third of the eight Solos de Concert composed by Charles Colin. Originally written as an examination piece for the Paris Conservatory, her...

Die Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters, heißt es so schön. Und tatsächlich: Sie klingt auch schön! So könnte man dieses Stück erklären - eine Polka in neuem Stil, die zum Ausdruck bringen soll, w...