Well within the range of a good student group, this suite has much audience appeal. The three movements, Fantastic Piece, Sojourn Brave, and Fuga, represent Scriabin at his best.
This madrigal of Andrea Gabrieli is transcribed from Musica Divina, a set of madrigals published in part books in 1583 and is arranged for quintet by Christopher Swainhart.
Selected from Carlton’s only published work, these two madrigals were chosen for brass quintet because they are originally in five parts, are not that well known, and reflect a compositional style that lies in between the earlier Elizabethan style of William Byrd and the more dazzling later style of Thomas Morley.
Pieces included are Hark All Ye Lovely Saints Above by Thomas Weelkes; Candidi Facti Sunt by Thomas Tallis; Mother I Will Have a Husband by Thomas Vautor.
This volume includes I Always Loved to Call My Lady Rose by Henry Lichfield (dates unknown); Ave Maria by William Byrd (1543-1623); The Nightingale by Peter Philips (died 1625).
Jan Sweelinck’s (1562 – 1621) choral work for brass quintet by noted arranger Conrad DeJong, whose famous edition of Scheidt’s Canzona Bergamasca has been commercially recorded numerous times.
This four movement transcription of the piano pieces Balalaika, Andante, Espanola, Galop gives brass players the chance to demonstrate Stravinsky’s sense of humor.