Ensemble

Joseph Fiala (um 1754 in Westböhmen geboren, 1816 in Donaueschingen gestorben) galt als 'berühmter Hautboist und gefälliger Komponist - , der sich auch als tüchtiger Violoncellist und seinerzeit 'best...

Johann Baptist Vanhal wurde 1739 als Sohn eines Bauern in Nové Nechanice (Böhmen) geboren und starb 1813 in Wien. Nach einer weitgehend autodidaktischen musikalischen Ausbildung folgte er 1761 einem R...

Wie kaum ein anderer Romantiker, hat sich Carl Maria von Weber mit Kompositionen für Blasinstrumente beschäftigt. Obwohl seit langem vermutet - Weber schreibt am 10. November 1811 in sein Tagebuch: äA...

Jean Émile Auguste Bernard (1843-1902) était un compositeur et organiste romantique français. Son « Divertissement pour quintette à vent doublé », op. 36, a été composé à l'origine pour la Société des...

While scored by Franz Lachner for eight wind instruments (flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, and 2 bassoons), this work is considered to be symphonic in scope.

En réunissant les quintettes traditionnels de bois et de cuivres au sein d’un ensemble de dix musiciens, l’œuvre d’Alfred Reed explore de diverses manières les combinaisons possibles offertes par cett...

Frederic Berr, a clarinettist who frequently worked with Rossini, transcribed the six "String Sonatas" which the composer had originally penned when he was only twelve years old. Five of these were pu...

Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) wrote his suite España, Op. 165, also known as 'Seis Hojas de Album' ('Six Album leaves') for piano in 1890. Each of the six movements recreates a traditional Spanish dance o...

André Jolivet (1905-1974) est un compositeur français particulièrement attaché à la culture et à la pensée musicale françaises. Influencé par Arnold Schoenberg et Edgard Varèse, fondateur du groupe La...

A neo-classical work consisting of five short pieces lasting one to three minutes each. Dedicated to French bassoonist Fernand Oubradous and the Paris Reed Trio.

Cette œuvre très connue de Nicolaï Rimski-Korsakov (1844-1908) est tirée de son opéra LE CONTE DE TSAR SALTAN. Alors que THE FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE met habituellement en valeur les capacités techniqu...

American composer and folk music specialist, Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953), was a prominent voice in the emerging modernist aesthetic in the early 20th century, and she became a central member of a...

On both "Hill-Songs," Percy Grainger writes: "My Hill-Songs arose out of the thoughts about and longings for the wilderness of hill countries, hill peoples, and hill musics (such as the Scottish Highl...

On both "Hill-Songs," Percy Grainger writes: "My Hill-Songs arose out of the thoughts about and longings for the wilderness of hill countries, hill peoples, and hill musics (such as the Scottish Highl...

With music by William Penn and words based on the writings and poetry of Hamlin Garlin, this is a unique and beautiful opportunity to feature a medium voice with wind ensemble (no saxophones, flugelho...

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) completed Octet (Octuor) in 1923 for an unusual combination of instruments. Comprised of three movements: I. Sinfonia, II. Tema con variazioni, III. Finale, Stravinsky exhi...

Esa Pietilä's The Wind Wants for wind quintet examins various kinds of wind: 'A balmy summer breeze suddenly gives way to an autumn gale that blows with all its might, whips round corners, forms flurr...

for Wind Quintet. This work consists of 25 variations and a fugue, allowing each instrument ample opportunity for virtuosity. A major addition to the woodwind quintet library, this piece would be exce...

A brisk Irish reel, one of Percy Grainger's most popular works. Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon (or Bass Clarinet)

The final movement of Mozart's Serenade No. 10 (KV 361) masterfully arranged by Mark A. Craig. Instrumentation: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon (or Bass Clarinet)