Work

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.

Commissioned:

Commissioned by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

• New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

Difficulty:

Advanced

Performance History

	07 Oct 1991	Performed by Victoria Brass (students at Victoria University Wellington) at St Andrew’s Church, Blenheim
	09 Oct 1991	Performed by Victoria Brass (students at Victoria University Wellington) at St Andrew’s Church, Motueka
	10 Oct 1991	Performed by Victoria Brass (students at Victoria University Wellington) at the Nelson School of Music
	05 Jun 2006	Performed by the Brass Quintet of the Central Band of the Royal NZ Air Force, Museum of City and Sea, Wellington, 5 June 2006
	29 Oct 2010	Performed by the University of Auckland Brass Quintet at the Music Theatre, School of Music, Auckland University