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please visit www.brassapedia.org - we are migrating the discography research data from this site to a wiki style interface Music for Brass Offering quality publications for brass quintet, septet, and large ensemble since 1987, Boulder Brass Publications are now available from Art of Sound Music or digital download directly from this site. Click the button below or use the drop down menus above. Sheet Music for Brass slow loading page Who We Are Elegant. Classy. Bold. Brassy. We've been performing and publishing music for brass ensemble since 1983. Group Bio and History BOULDER BRASS RECORDINGS clicking on an image will take you to a track listing, digital download, or ordering information Featured & New Titles Boulder Brass charts are available here for PDF download Debussy Quick View De pas sur la neige Price $50.00 Debussy Quick View La Puerta del Vino Price $50.00 Debussy Quick View Les collines d'Anacapri Price $50.00 Strauss Quick View Alpine Symphony Price $225.00 Debussy Quick View De pas sur la neige Price $50.00 Debussy Quick View La Puerta del Vino Price $50.00 Debussy Quick View Les collines d'Anacapri Price $50.00 Strauss Quick View Alpine Symphony Price $225.00 Blog - Arranging for Brass Inspiration and Innovation Nov 24, 2020 PJBE Pictures Nov 24, 2020 K.I.S.S. Nov 26, 2019 Compromises Aug 29, 2019 Wheat or chaff? Aug 10, 2019 Palette Aug 10, 2019 Atmosphere Apr 3, 2019 Good writers write...always Mar 14, 2019 One on a part follow up Mar 14, 2019 Subscribe to the blog Contact Us bldrbrs@comcast.net Send Your details were sent successfully!

Music for Large Brass Ensemble Debussy Quick View Les collines d'Anacapri Price $50.00 Debussy Quick View La Cathedrale Engloutie Price $50.00 Debussy Quick View Girl with the Flaxen Hair Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Ballet Music from the Perfect Fool Price $60.00 Holst Quick View Mars, the Bringer of War Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Venus, the Bringer of Peace Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Mercury, the Winged Messenger Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Uranus, the Magician Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Neptune, the Mystic Price $50.00 Mahler Quick View Trauermarsch (Movement 1) from Symphony No. 5 Price $75.00 Mussorgsky Quick View Pictures at an Exhibition (15 Piece) Price $250.00 Puccini Quick View Tosca - Opera Highlights Price $200.00 Ravel Quick View Alborada del Gracioso Price $75.00 Respighi Quick View The Pines of Rome Price $125.00 Strauss Quick View Alpine Symphony Price $225.00 Strauss Quick View Salome's Dance of the Seven Veils Price $75.00 Stravinsky Quick View Suite from the Firebird Price $80.00 Wagner Quick View Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral Price $50.00 Wagner Quick View Ring Cycle Highlights, Part 1 - Das Rheingold Price $125.00 Wagner Quick View Ring Cycle Highlights, Part 2 - Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung Price $225.00 Wagner Quick View Trauersinfonie Price $38.00

Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937) French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s, Ravel was regarded as France’s greatest living composer, both nationally and internationally. ​ Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France’s premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the Conservatoire Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style of great clarity, incorporating elements of baroque, neoclassicism and, in his later works, jazz. He liked to experiment with musical form, as in his best-known work, Boléro (1928), in which repetition takes the place of development. He made some orchestral arrangements of other composers’ music, of which his 1922 version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition is the best known. ​ As a slow and painstaking worker, Ravel composed fewer pieces than many of his contemporaries. Among his works to enter the repertoire are pieces for piano, chamber music, two piano concertos, ballet music, two operas, orchestral music, and eight song cycles; he wrote no symphonies and only one religious work (“Kaddish”), which is merely an arrangement of pre-existent Hebrew liturgical melodies. Many of his piano pieces also exist in the form of orchestrations made years after their original conception. Some of his piano music, such as Gaspard de la nuit (1908), is exceptionally difficult to play, and some of his complex orchestral scores, such as the music for the ballet Daphnis et Chloé (1912), require great conducting skill to realize successfully. ​ Ravel was among the first composers to recognize the potential of recording to bring their music to a wider public. From the 1920s, despite limited technique as a pianist or conductor, he took part in recordings of several of his works; others were made under his supervision. Sort by Ravel Quick View Piece in the form of a Habanera Price $38.00 Ravel Quick View Ma mere L'Oye (Mother Goose Suite) Price $100.00 Ravel Quick View Alborada del Gracioso Price $75.00 Ravel Quick View La Jardin Feerique from Mother Goose Price $30.00 Ravel Quick View Menuet Antique Price $38.00

Composer Nationality Ewald, Victor (1860 - 1935) Russia Work Publisher ​ Quintet No. 1 in B flat minor, Opus 5 © Ensemble Music Publications editions also available by Tarr, Miller, Thomas, & Rickard Commission Premier Composed in 1890 and revised in 1905 ​ Instrumentation ​ ​ Modern edition for 2 trumpets in B flat, horn, trombone, tuba Original instrumentation for 2 cornets in b flat, alto horn in e flat, tenor horn in b flat, and bass horn in e flat Special techniques ​ Duration Movements ​ ​ 3 movements - c. 13' 30" Moderato (c. 5' 30") Adagio - Allegro - Adagio (c. 4' 00") Allegro moderato (c. 4' 00") Discography Year Ensemble Album Label and Catalog # 1960 New York Philharmonic Brass Ensemble New York Philharmonic Brass Ensemble Golden Crest Records CR 4003 1969 Illinois Brass Quintet The Illinois Brass Quintet Music Minus One MMO 6016 1970 Philip Jones Brass Ensemble Just Brass Argo Records ZRG 655 1977 Empire Brass Quintet Russian Brass Sine Qua Non Records SQN SA 2012 1978 Mount Royal Brass Quintet The Mount Royal Brass Quintet McGill University Records 77004 1980 German Brass Quintet The German Brass Quintet Audite Records FSM 63 405 1985 American Brass Quintet Brass Music of St. Petersburg Musical Heritage Society MHS 7557L 1987 Netherlands Brass Quintet Netherlands Brass Quintet Ottavo Records OTR C48609 1991 Süddeutsches Blechbläserensemble Brass Symphony Marcophon Records CD 920 2 1993 Brass Ring Brass Ring Crystal Records CD 561 1993 Ensemble de Cuivres des Hauts de France Musique de Chambre à Saint Petersbourg BNL Records BNL 112861 1994 Ensemble Epsilon Epsilon Chamade CHCD 5610 1994 Stockholm Chamber Brass Sounds of St. Petersburg BIS CD 613 1995 Das Rennquintett Five Classics Bayer Records BR 100 251 CD 1995 The Prince Regent's Band Russian Revolutionaries, Volume 1 Bayer Records BR 100 251 1996 Center City Brass Quintet Center City Brass Quintet Collins Classic 14892 1998 London City Brass Quintet Performance Self-produced LCBQ 1 1998 Skyline Brass Caged Self-produced SNCD 001 2003 Sonus Brass (Austria) Episoden werkzwei SB 991201 2003 Wallace Collection Baltic Brass Deux-Ellis Limited DXL 1042 2004 Tokyo Metropolitan Brass Quintet Washington Post March Meister Music Corp., Ltd. 2006 emBRASSment Delikatessen 2008 Granada Brass Quintet Rendezvous Granadinos 2009 Melos Brass Romantic Brass Legend Classic 5206659005 2010 Philadelphia Orchestra Brass Quintet Peter Tchaikovsky / Victor Ewald Ondine Records ODE 1150-2D 2012 Eastern Kentucky University Brass Quintet Brass Sketches Mark Custom Records 2012 Floreat Brass Quintet Quintette de Cuivres Floreat Musica Indesens 2012 Sächsisches (Saxon) Blechbläserquintett Sächsisches Blechbläserquintett Amos Records CD 6060 2015 Wien Berlin Brass Quintet Brilliant Brass Tudor Records 7201 2018 Spanish Brass - Luur Metalls XXX SB Produccions, Espana 2019 Brass X The Classic Sony Classical 2019 High Bridge Brass High Bridge Brass Summit Records DCD 759 2019 Les Siecles Quintette de Cuivres Coleur Cuivre Nomad Records 2019 St. Petersburg Philharmonic Brass Quintet Russian Brass Cryston Records 20XX esBRASSo Quintett Selezione uno

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Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934) English composer, arranger, and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets , he composed a large number of other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success. His distinctive compositional style was the product of many influences, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss being most crucial early in his development. The subsequent inspiration of the English folksong revival of the early 20th century, and the example of such rising modern composers as Maurice Ravel , led Holst to develop and refine an individual style. ​ There were professional musicians in the previous three generations of Holst's family and it was clear from his early years that he would follow the same calling. He hoped to become a pianist, but was prevented by neuritis in his right arm. Despite his father's reservations, he pursued a career as a composer, studying at the Royal College of Music under Charles Villiers Stanford . Unable to support himself by his compositions, he played the trombone professionally and later became a teacher—a great one, according to his colleague Ralph Vaughan Williams . Among other teaching activities he built up a strong tradition of performance at Morley College , where he served as musical director from 1907 until 1924, and pioneered music education for women at St Paul's Girls' School , where he taught from 1905 until his death in 1934. He was the founder of a series of Whitsun music festivals, which ran from 1916 for the remainder of his life. ​ Holst's works were played frequently in the early years of the 20th century, but it was not until the international success of The Planets in the years immediately after the First World War that he became a well-known figure. A shy man, he did not welcome this fame, and preferred to be left in peace to compose and teach. In his later years his uncompromising, personal style of composition struck many music lovers as too austere, and his brief popularity declined. Nevertheless, he was a significant influence on a number of younger English composers, including Edmund Rubbra , Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten . Apart from The Planets and a handful of other works, his music was generally neglected until the 1980s, when recordings of much of his output became available. Holst Quick View Mars, the Bringer of War Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Venus, the Bringer of Peace Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Mercury, the Winged Messenger Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Uranus, the Magician Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Neptune, the Mystic Price $50.00 Holst Quick View Ballet Music from the Perfect Fool Price $60.00 Load More Gustav Holst Recordings of select works (coming soon)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847) Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. A grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn was born into a prominent Jewish family. He was brought up without religion until the age of seven, when he was baptised as a Reformed Christian. Mendelssohn was recognized early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalize on his talent. Mendelssohn enjoyed early success in Germany, where he also revived interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and in his travels throughout Europe. He was particularly well received in Britain as a composer, conductor and soloist, and his ten visits there – during which many of his major works were premiered – form an important part of his adult career. His essentially conservative musical tastes, however, set him apart from many of his more adventurous musical contemporaries such as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Hector Berlioz. The Leipzig Conservatoire (now the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig), which he founded, became a bastion of this anti-radical outlook. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the overture The Hebrides, his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his creative originality has now been recognized and re-evaluated. He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic era. (source: Wikipedia ) Mendelssohn Quick View Adagio from the F Minor Organ Sonata Price $25.00 Mendelssohn Quick View Funeral March Price $38.00 Mendelssohn Quick View Scherzo Tarantella Price $25.00 Mendelssohn Quick View War March of the Priests Price $42.00 Felix Mendelssohn Recordings of select works (coming soon)

Giovanni Gabrieli (1555 - 1612) Gabrieli Quick View Sacro pro tempio d'honor spechio Price $20.00 Gabrieli Quick View Benedictus es Dominus Price $30.00 Gabrieli Quick View Confitebor tibi Domine Price $38.00

Composer Nationality Ewald, Victor (1860 - 1935) Russia Work Publisher ​ Quintet No. 2 in E flat minor, Opus 6 © 1978 Sto-Art Publishing Co., Inc. / G. Schirmer, Inc editions also available by Tarr, Miller, Thomas, & Rickard Commission Premier Composed in 1905 ​ Instrumentation ​ ​ Modern edition for 2 trumpets in B flat, horn, trombone, tuba Original instrumentation for 2 cornets in b flat, alto horn in e flat, tenor horn in b flat, and bass horn in e flat Special techniques ​ Duration Movements ​ ​ 3 movements - c. 16' 50" Allegro risoluto (c. 5' 00") Thema con variazioni (c. 7' 20") Allegro vivace (c. 4' 30") Discography year ensemble album label and catalog # 1977 Empire Brass Quintet Russian Brass Sine Qua Non Records SQN SA 2012 1978 Tidewater Brass Quintet Tidewater Brass Quintet III Golden Crest Records CRSQ 4174 1981 Albany Brass Ensemble The Albany Brass Ensemble Self-produced 1981 New York Brass Quintet Romantic Age Brass Mentor Music MEN 108 1988 Munich Brass Munich Brass Orfeo Records C 166 881 A 1992 American Brass Quintet American Brass Quintessence Summit Records DCD 133 1993 Ensemble de Cuivres des Hauts de France Musique de Chambre à Saint Petersbourg BNL Records BNL 112861 1994 Stockholm Chamber Brass Sounds of St. Petersburg BIS CD 613 1995 The Prince Regent's Band Russian Revolutionaries, Volume 1 Bayer Records BR 100 251 1996 Copenhagen Brass Quintet Brass Music from St. Petersburg and Copenhagen Classico Records CLASSCD 169 1998 Mannheim Brass Quintet Brass Pieces Audite Records 97.458 2003 Wallace Collection Baltic Brass Deux-Ellis Limited DXL 1042 2005 Mardi Brass Something Old London Independent Records LIR 010 2010 Axiom Brass New Standards Self-produced 2018 Custom Brass Brass Cantabile CAFUA Records 2019 St. Petersburg Philharmonic Brass Quintet Russian Brass Cryston Records

Christmas Music Share CD Quick View A Visit from St. Nick Price $12.99 Leontovich Quick View Carol of the Bells Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Chorale Prelude Opus 122, No 8 Price $38.00 Torme Quick View The Christmas Song Price $45.00 Holst Quick View Christmas Day Price $50.00 Appalachian Quick View I Wonder As I Wander Price $45.00 Herbert Quick View March of the Toys Price $55.00 Tchaikovsky Quick View Nutcracker Suite Price $70.00 Grainger Quick View Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol Price $28.00 15th Century Quick View Veni, Veni Emmanuel Price $50.00 Rossini Quick View A Visit from St Nick Price $75.00 Vaughan Williams Quick View Wassail Song Price $38.00

Frederic Chopin (1810 - 1849) Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as a leading musician of his era, whose “poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation.” Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw and grew up in Warsaw, which in 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed his earlier works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising. At 21 he settled in Paris. Thereafter, during the last 18 years of his life, he gave only some 30 public performances, preferring the more intimate atmosphere of the salon. He supported himself by selling his compositions and by teaching piano, for which he was in high demand. Chopin formed a friendship with Franz Liszt and was admired by many of his musical contemporaries, including Robert Schumann. In 1835 he obtained French citizenship. After a failed engagement to Maria Wodzińska from 1836 to 1837, he maintained an often troubled relationship with the French writer George Sand. A brief and unhappy visit to Majorca with Sand in 1838–39 was one of his most productive periods of composition. In his last years, he was financially supported by his admirer Jane Stirling, who also arranged for him to visit Scotland in 1848. Through most of his life, Chopin suffered from poor health. He died in Paris in 1849, at the age of 39, probably of tuberculosis. All of Chopin’s compositions include the piano. Most are for solo piano, though he also wrote two piano concertos, a few chamber pieces, and some songs to Polish lyrics. His keyboard style is highly individual and often technically demanding; his own performances were noted for their nuance and sensitivity. Chopin invented the concept of the instrumental ballade. His major piano works also include mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, polonaises, études, impromptus, scherzos, preludes and sonatas, some published only after his death. Influences on his composition style include Polish folk music, the classical tradition of J. S. Bach, Mozart and Schubert, as well as the Paris salons where he was a frequent guest. His innovations in style, musical form, and harmony, and his association of music with nationalism, were influential throughout and after the late Romantic period. (source: Wikipedia ) Chopin Quick View Prelude No 4, Opus 28 Price $32.00 Chopin Quick View Prelude No 15, Opus 28 Price $38.00 Frederic Chopin Recordings of select works (coming soon)

Composer Nationality Work Publisher Commission Premier Instrumentation Special techniques Cheetham, John (b. 1939) United States Scherzo © 1966 Avant Music, Los Angeles Western International Music Composed in 1963 2 trumpets in B flat, horn, trombone, tuba Duration Movements c. 3' 30" Single movement - ABA form Discography year ensemble album label and catalog # 1968 Los Angeles Brass Quintet The Los Angeles Brass Quintet Crystal Records S 602 1970 Copenhagen Brass Quintet Danish Brass Ahimsa Records AHMLP 701 1972 Eastern Brass Quintet Superlatives Concord Recordings CR 1001 1974 Vancouver Brass Quintet Vancouver Brass Quintet Canadian Broadcasting Corp. SM 252 1975 Theo Mertens Brass Quintet Koperensemble Theo Mertens Eufoda 1029 1977 Stockholm Philharmonic Brass Ensemble Stockholm Philharmonic Brass Ensemble Swedish Society SLT 33 254 1978 Quintette de Cuivres de André Philippe Quintette de Cuivres de André Philippe Sabam SR 30 752 1980 Tidewater Brass Quintet Tidewater Brass Quintet IV Golden Crest Records CRS 4205 1994 Praetorius Ensemble Limburg Modern Times Forever Studio Tonmeister CD 11361-01 1995 Czech Brass Sextet Brno The Glitter of Brass Multisonic 31 0349-2 1996 Eastern Kentucky University Brass Quintet Menagerie Mark Custom Records MCD 2331 1997 Florida State Brass Quintet Strophes of the Night and Dawn Crystal Records CD 566 1999 Ensemble Prisma - Vienna Brass Quintet Musik für Blechbläser Preiser Records SPR 3296 2000 Millenium Brass Quintet Millenium Brass in Concert Walking Frog Records WFR 601 2002 Brass Arts Quintet (Tennessee) Shazam Mark Custom Records MCD 4365 2004 US Air Force Heartland of America Brass Quintet Fancies, Toyes, and Dreames ACC Records ACC 994 2007 Gaudete Brass Quintet Brass Outings Gaudete Brass 2017 Quintetto Inflagranti Sketches of Brass Recordiet 2019 Brass X The Classic Sony Classical

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643) Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (September, 1583 – March 1, 1643) was a musician from Ferrara, and one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods Frescobaldi Quick View Capriccio sopra la battaglia Price $38.00 Frescobaldi Quick View Toccata Price $42.00

John Bull (1562 - 1628) Bull Quick View Corranto Battle Price $38.00 Bull Quick View Pavan - St Thomas Wake Price $32.00 Bull Quick View The King's Hunt Price $38.00 William Byrd Recordings of select works

Serge Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943) Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor of the late-Romantic period. Born into a musical family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 and had composed several piano and orchestral pieces by this time. In 1897, following the critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a four-year depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No. 2 in 1901. After the Russian Revolution (1917), Rachmaninoff and his family left Russia for the United States, first in New York City. Demanding tour schedules as a concert pianist caused his output as composer to slow tremendously; between 1918 and 1943, he completed just six compositions, including Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Symphony No. 3, and Symphonic Dances. In 1942, Rachmaninoff moved to Beverly Hills, California. One month before his death from advanced melanoma, Rachmaninoff acquired American citizenship. ​ Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, and other Russian composers gave way to a personal style notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness and his use of rich orchestral colors. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff’s compositional output, and through his own skills as a performer he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument. (source: Wikipedia ) Sort by Rachmaninoff Quick View Blessed Art Thou from the Vespers, Opus 37 No 9 Price $38.00 Rachmaninoff Quick View Etude Tableaux Opus 39, No 6 Price $38.00 Rachmaninoff Quick View Etude Tableaux Opus 39, No 9 Price $38.00 Rachmaninoff Quick View Prelude in D Minor, Opus 23, No.3 Price $38.00 Rachmaninoff Quick View Prelude in G Minor, Opus 23, No. 5 Price $38.00 Rachmaninoff Quick View Vocalise, Opus 34 No14 Price $38.00

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Music of the Classical Era c. 1750 - 1830 Mendelssohn Quick View Adagio from the F Minor Organ Sonata Price $25.00 Mozart Quick View Ave Verum Corpus Price $38.00 Mendelssohn Quick View Funeral March Price $38.00 Haydn Quick View March for the Prince of Wales Price $38.00 Mozart Quick View Queen of the Night Aria Price $38.00 Rossini Quick View Overture to the Barber of Seville Price $55.00 Rossini Quick View Overture to Semiramide Price $60.00 Mendelssohn Quick View Scherzo Tarantella Price $25.00 Mendelssohn Quick View War March of the Priests Price $42.00 Classical Recording Collections Recordings of select works (coming soon)

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958) Vaughan Williams Quick View Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis Price $60.00 Vaughan Williams Quick View Six Studies in English Folksong Price $38.00 Vaughan Williams Quick View Wassail Song Price $38.00 CD Quick View A Visit from St. Nick Price $12.99 Ralph Vaughan Williams Recordings of select works (coming soon)

Composer Nationality Calvert, Morley (1928 - 1991) Canada Work Publisher Suite from the Monteregian Hills © 1962 Berandol Music, Ltd. Commission Premier Composed in 1961 on a commission from the Montreal Brass Quintet Montreal Brass Quintet Instrumentation 2 trumpets in B flat, horn, trombone, tuba Special techniques trumpets require straight mutes Duration Movements 4 movements - c. 9' 00" le Marche (c. 2' 00") Chanson Mélancolique (c. 3' 00") Valse ridicule (c. 2' 30") Dances villageoise (c. 1' 30") Discography year ensemble album label and catalog # 1972 Eastern Brass Quintet Superlatives Concord Recordings CR 1001 1974 Vancouver Brass Quintet Vancouver Brass Quintet Canadian Broadcasting Corp. SM 252 1976 United States Army Band Brass Quintet Woodwind and Brass Quintets United States Army Band USAB LP S19754 1977 The Brass Guild The Brass Guild Grenadilla Records S 551 1977 German Brass Quintet The German Brass Quintet Audite Records FSM 53 175 1984 Mount Royal Brass Quintet Brass Nova McGill University Records 80012 1991 Chicago Brass Quintet Virtuoso Brass Delos Records DE 1022 1993 Dana Brass Quintet Apocalypse Dana Recording Project DRP 6 1996 Center City Brass Quintet Center City Brass Quintet Collins Classic 14892 2011 United States Coast Guard Brass Quintet Music for Soloist and Chamber Players Altissimo Records

Sir Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934) Although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically, but socially. In musical circles dominated by academics, he was a self-taught composer; in Protestant Britain, his Roman Catholicism was regarded with suspicion in some quarters; and in the class-conscious society of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, he was acutely sensitive about his humble origins even after he achieved recognition. He nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British army officer. She inspired him both musically and socially, but he struggled to achieve success until his forties, when after a series of moderately successful works his Enigma Variations (1899) became immediately popular in Britain and overseas. He followed the Variations with a choral work, The Dream of Gerontius (1900), based on a Roman Catholic text that caused some disquiet in the Anglican establishment in Britain, but it became, and has remained, a core repertory work in Britain and elsewhere. His later full-length religious choral works were well received but have not entered the regular repertory. In his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a violin concerto that were immensely successful. His second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate public popularity and took many years to achieve a regular place in the concert repertory of British orchestras. Elgar’s music came, in his later years, to be seen as appealing chiefly to British audiences. His stock remained low for a generation after his death. It began to revive significantly in the 1960s, helped by new recordings of his works. Some of his works have, in recent years, been taken up again internationally, but the music continues to be played more in Britain than elsewhere. Elgar has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. Between 1914 and 1925, he conducted a series of acoustic recordings of his works. The introduction of the moving-coil microphone in 1923 made far more accurate sound reproduction possible, and Elgar made new recordings of most of his major orchestral works and excerpts from The Dream of Gerontius. Elgar Quick View Nimrod from Enigma Variations Price $32.00

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Scott Joplin (1867 - 1917) Joplin Quick View Bethena, a Concert Waltz Price $38.00 Joplin Quick View Easy Winners Price $38.00 Joplin Quick View Elite Syncopations Price $38.00 Joplin Quick View Euphonic Sounds Price $38.00 Joplin Quick View Magnetic Rag Price $38.00 Joplin Quick View Pleasant Moments Price $38.00 Joplin Quick View Wall Street Rag Price $38.00 Scott Joplin Recordings of select works (coming soon)

The Boulder Brass has been thrilling audiences throughout the United States for more than two decades and continues to be lauded for virtuosity and brilliance, and engaging programming. One of the first ensembles of its kind, the Boulder Brass sprang from modest and experimental roots in 1993, starting out with a very limited library of musical works written for a brass chamber group of this size. Thus, the members of the group set out to create their own musical world by arranging and commissioning a wide variety of music specifically for its unique instrumentation. The Boulder Brass repertoire now comprises over 300 fresh and expertly crafted orchestrations and arrangements of great music from the past, as well as original works written specifically for the group. Often copied but never duplicated, publications from the Boulder Brass Series are now being performed all over the world by other ensembles. The musicians of the Boulder Brass are also keenly interested in training the next generation of musicians with educational and outreach programs. With active careers as pedagogues as well as performers, the musicians of the Boulder Brass embrace opportunities to encourage enthusiasm and advocacy for future music-making by providing young musicians with rich, positive experiences in the form of master classes and clinics.

Brass Quintets are default sorted alphabetically by composer - use the sort filter to search by title, price, or newest entries. Sort by Bach Quick View Bist du bei mir Price $16.00 Bach Quick View Contrapunctus I Price $20.00 Bach Quick View Contrapunctus IX Price $20.00 Bach Quick View Fantasia in C major Price $16.00 Bach Quick View Fugue on Saint Anne Price $22.00 Bach Quick View Fugue in g minor, "Little Fugue" Price $20.00 Bach Quick View Prelude and Fugue in C major Price $16.00 Bach Quick View Prelude and Fugue in d minor Price $16.00 Bach Quick View While Sheep May Safely Graze Price $20.00 Charpentier Quick View Prelude to Te Deum Price $16.00 Clarke Quick View Prince of Denmark's March Price $20.00 Coprario Quick View Fantasia a 5 "O voi che sospirate" Price $16.00 Coprario Quick View Fantasia a 5, No. 49 Price $16.00 Faure Quick View Pie Jesu Price $20.00 Franck Quick View Panis Angelicus Price $18.00 Gabrieli Quick View Sacro pro tempio d'honor spechio Price $20.00 Grainger Quick View Colonial Song Price $16.00 Grainger Quick View Irish Tune from County Derry Price $16.00 Grainger Quick View Shepherd's Hey Price $16.00 Handel Quick View Suite from the Watermusic Price $35.00 Load More

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) was a German born composer and pianist of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria. His reputation and status as a composer is such that he is sometimes grouped with Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven as one of the “Three Bs” of music, a comment originally made by the nineteenth-century conductor Hans von Bülow. ​ Brahms composed for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, piano, organ, and voice and chorus. A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works. He worked with some of the leading performers of his time, including the pianist Clara Schumann and the violinist Joseph Joachim (the three were close friends). Many of his works have become staples of the modern concert repertoire. An uncompromising perfectionist, Brahms destroyed some of his works and left others unpublished. ​ Brahms has been considered, by his contemporaries and by later writers, as both a traditionalist and an innovator. His music is firmly rooted in the structures and compositional techniques of the Classical masters. While many contemporaries found his music too academic, his contribution and craftsmanship have been admired by subsequent figures as diverse as Arnold Schoenberg and Edward Elgar. The diligent, highly constructed nature of Brahms’s works was a starting point and an inspiration for a generation of composers. Embedded within his meticulous structures, however, are deeply romantic motifs. (source: Wikipedia) Brahms Quick View Ballade (Edward) Opus 10, No 1 Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Ballade No. 3, from Klavierstucke, Opus 118 Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Chorale Prelude Opus 122, No 7 Price $28.00 Brahms Quick View Chorale Prelude Opus 122, No 8 Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Chorale Prelude Opus 122, No 10 Price $28.00 Brahms Quick View Hungarian Dance No 1 Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Hungarian Dance No 3 Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Hungarian Dance No 5 Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Hungarian Dance No 7 Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Intermezzo Opus 76, No7 Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Intermezzo Opus 116, No. 4 Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Intermezzo Opus 117, No.1 Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Intermezzo Opus 117, No 3 Price $38.00 Brahms Quick View Intermezzo Opus 118, No. 2 Price $38.00 Load More Johannes Brahms Recordings of select works (coming soon)

Composer Nationality Koetsier, Jan (1911 - 2006) Netherlands / Germany Work Publisher Brass Quintet, Opus 65 © 1974 Editions Marc Reift Commission Premier Principal brass musicians of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1974 Straubing Germany Instrumentation 2 trumpets in C, horn, trombone, tuba Special techniques ​ Duration Movements ​ ​ none 3 movements - c. 11' 30" Andante con moto - Allegro con brio (c. 3' 45") Andantino (c. 3' 45") Molto vivace (c. 4' 00) Discography year ensemble album label and catalog # 1976 Münchner Blechbläsersolisten Virtuose Bläsermusik Colosseum Records SM 631 1984 Hamburger Blechbläsersolisten Die Hamburger Blechbläsersolisten Musica Viva MV 30 1112 1991 Philharmonic Brass Luzern Concertin' Brass Marcophon Records CD 918 2 1993 Dana Brass Quintet Apocalypse Dana Recording Project DRP 6 1995 Das Rennquintett Five Classics Bayer Records BR 100 251 CD 1996 Das Rennquintett Hommage a Jan Koetsier Bayer Records BR 100 263 CD 1997 Florida State Brass Quintet Strophes of the Night and Dawn Crystal Records CD 566 2002 US Navy Brass Quintet Music for Chamber Winds Altissimo Records 2007 Brass Ensemble Rose With Elegance Hollywood Records FWMDS 100001 2007 Vertige Brass Quintet Courts Métrages Indesens INDE 003 2009 Gewandhuas Brass Quintet Presents... Genuin Musikproduktion GEN 89142 2009 Melos Brass Romantic Brass Legend Classic 5206659005 2010 Feeling Brass Quintet Fantasy Polymnie Records POL 570 170 2017 Berlin Brass Quintet United Betont Records 2018 Custom Brass Brass on Parade CAFUA Records CACG 0047 2019 Brass X The Classic Sony Korea S 80487

Music of the Baroque c. 1600 - 1760 Bach Quick View Prelude and Fugue in d minor Price $16.00 Bach Quick View Prelude and Fugue in C major Price $16.00 Bach Quick View Fantasia in C major Price $16.00 Bach Quick View Fugue in g minor, "Little Fugue" Price $20.00 Bach Quick View Contrapunctus I Price $20.00 Bach Quick View Contrapunctus IX Price $20.00 Mouret Quick View Rondeau - Fanfare for the King's Supper Price $16.00 Clarke Quick View Prince of Denmark's March Price $20.00 Bach Quick View While Sheep May Safely Graze Price $20.00 Bach Quick View Bist du bei mir Price $16.00 Bach Quick View Fugue on Saint Anne Price $22.00 Pachelbel Quick View Ciacona in f minor Price $22.00 Handel Quick View Suite from the Watermusic Price $35.00 Handel Quick View Where E'er You Walk from Semele Price $16.00 Stanley Quick View Trumpet Voluntary Price $16.00 Purcell Quick View Voluntary on the Old 100th Price $20.00 Handel Quick View Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Price $38.00 Bach Quick View Adagio, BWV 564 Price $32.00 Bach Quick View Air from Orchestral Suite No 3 Price $38.00 Bach Quick View Air pour les Trompettes Price $28.00 Bach Quick View Allegro from Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 Price $38.00 Frescobaldi Quick View Capriccio sopra la battaglia Price $38.00 Pachelbel Quick View Ciacona in F minor Price $38.00 Bach Quick View Chorale Prelude - Vor deinem Thron tret ich hiermit Price $38.00 Vivaldi Quick View Concerto in A flat Price $42.00 Bach Quick View Contrapunctus 1 Price $38.00 Bach Quick View Contrapunctus 5 Price $38.00 Bach Quick View Contrapunctus 9 Price $38.00 Soler Quick View Emperor's Fanfare Price $38.00 Bach Quick View Fantasia & Fugue in g minor Price $60.00 Bach Quick View Fantasia in C major Price $38.00 Bach Quick View Fugue in g minor - "Little Fugue" Price $42.00 Bach Quick View Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Price $38.00 Bach Quick View Komm Susser Tod Price $32.00 Hellendaal Quick View Little Suite for Brass Price $20.00 Clarke & Purcell Quick View Music from Chapel Royal Price $38.00 Load More Baroque Recording Collections Recordings of select works (coming soon)

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Composer Nationality Horovitz, Joseph (b. 1926) United Kingdom Work Publisher Music Hall Suite © Novello & Company, London ​ Commission Premier Composed in 1964 on a commission by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble Instrumentation 2 trumpets in B flat, horn, trombone, tuba Special techniques Duration Movements c. 9' 30" Soubrette Song (c. 1' 40") Trick Cyclists (c. 1' 20") Adagio Team (c. 2' 30") Soft Shoe Shuffle (c. 2' 30") Les Girls (c. 1' 30") Discography year ensemble album label and catalog 1968 Hallé Brass Consort The Hallé Brass Consort Pye Records GSGC 14114 1977 Metropolitan Brass Quintet Metropolitan Brass Quintet Crystal Records S 208 1980 Philip Jones Brass Ensemble The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble in Switzerland Argo Records ZRG 928 1983 Budapest Brass Quintet Budapest Brass Quintet Hungaroton Records SLPX 12486 1983 St. Louis Brass Quintet Saint Louis Brass Quintet Crystal Records S 212 1984 Hamburger Blechbasersolisten Die Hamburger Blechbasersolisten Musica Viva MV 30 1112 1989 Aarhus Brass Quintet Aarhus Brass Quintet Paula Records PACD 62 1990 Dutch Brass Quintet Brass in Swing Aliud Records JB 019059 1993 Das Junge Deutsche Blechbläserquintett Fresh Air Ram Musikproduktions GmbH 1995 Das Rennquintett Five Classics Bayer Records BR 100 251 CD 2000 Berlin Philharmonic Brass Quintet Klingen Octavia Records (Exton) OVCL 00028 2012 Floreat Brass Quintet Quintette de Cuivres Floreat Musica Indesens 2012 Luxembourg Brass Quintet brass.iu 2015 Spark Brass Carnaval to the Music Hall Self-produced 2019 Brass X The Classic Sony Classical