Sunday, April 14, 2013

Music @ Brighton Road 14.4.13

vox merus' programme, 5: Music for Brass Quintet, was extremely well received by the M@BR audience today...of special mention was the presence of Irish / Australian composer Houston Dunleavy, for the premiere of his brass quintet version of Music for Foul Play....thanks also to concert organiser Bill Dowdall and the M@BR team. The venue is very favourable for brass and made the concert a pleasure for performers and audience alike!

The programme was an homage to ground-breaking brass quintets and their repertoire, including:

Philip Jones Brass Quintet 
Giles Farnaby - Fancies, Toyes & Dreams
Andre Previn - Four Outings for Brass

Canadian Brass
Samuel Scheidt - Galliard Battaglia
JS Bach - Little Fugue in G Minor

Empire Brass
Victor Ewald - Brass Quintet No 3, Movement 1

The Wallace Collection
Jim Parker - excerpts from The Golden Section
William Walton - excerpts from Facade Suite

New York Philharmonic Brass Quintet
That's A Plenty - arranged Steven Cooper