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Andrew Perkins  

Brass Quintet 'Lux et Origo'

Duration: 11' 00" Year: 1988

Kenneth Young  

Brass Quintet No.1

Duration: 24' 00" Year: 1980
for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba

  • Programme Note

    Young’s Brass Quintet No. 1 was composed in 1980 to a commission from the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the New Zealand Brass Quintet. It was first performed (with Young himself playing tuba) in Wanganui and Wellington as part of the first half of an NZSO programme which included Stravinsky’s Petrouchka. The following year the work was recorded by the Quintet for the Kiwi Pacific label, along with John Ritchie’s Partita and Douglas Lilburn’s Quartet for Brass.

    In writing this Quintet, Young wanted to composed a more substantial work than was common in the brass quintet repertoire of the time; consequently, it has an almost symphonic breadth.

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Cheryl Camm  

Four Pieces for Brass Quintet

 Year: 1983, r. 2008

John Elmsly  

Gestauqua

Duration: 09' 00" Year: 1989
for brass quintet and tape

David Farquhar  

Homage to Stravinsky

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1986
for brass quintet

  • Instrumentation
    2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba
  • Programme Note

    The Chorale melody was written by Stravinsky in 1952, as a theme for organ improvisation by Marcel Dupre. I am grateful to Robert Craft and the Stravinsky Estate for permission to use it here. Stravinsky’s melody is played by the first trumpet in each of the three chorale settings. All three are canonic in treatment, with the texture increasing from two parts in Chorale 1 to four parts (plus a tuba bass-line) in Chorale 3. The two Interludes take off from the finale notes of the chorale. In contrast both are quick, with a somewhat Stravinskian rhythmic exhuberance; Interlude 1 is scored for a trio (excluding the two trumpets), Interlude 2 for the full quintet.

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John Rimmer  

Sonata a 5

Duration: 07' 00" Year: 1982
for brass quintet

Stephan Schulz  

Swinging: Take 6

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1989
for brass quintet