Music for Brass Quintet

Recorded in stereo in 1965 in New York by The American Brass Quintet, Music for Brass Quintet features two trumpets, tenor and bass trombones, and French horn performing seven chamber music compositions dating from the mid-15th to the mid-20th century. This inaugural recording by the Quintet was followed in 1967 by Music of the Renaissance and Baroque, also on Folkways. The Quintet celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2010. The liner notes include thumbnail biographies of the five instrumentalists and brief descriptions of each of the seven chamber music pieces.

Track Listing

101	Vive le Roi (Long Live the King) - Josquin des Pres	The American Brass Quintet	01:29
102	Canzona La Spiritata - Giovanni Gabrieli	The American Brass Quintet	02:32
103	Desperavi (I Have Despaired) - Michael East	The American Brass Quintet	04:03
104	Triptych for Brass Quintet: Rotational Games: Scherzo - Charles Whittenberg	The American Brass Quintet	05:34
105	Triptych for Brass Quintet: Sustenuto / Canonic Fanfares (medley) (Elegy in Memory of Anton Webern, 1883-1945) - Charles Whittenberg	The American Brass Quintet	09:58
201	Contrapunctus Number Three (from The Art of Fugue) - Johann Sebastian Bach	The American Brass Quintet	04:06
202	Brass Quartet: Fantasia / Arioso / Toccata (medley) - Ulysses Kay	The American Brass Quintet	08:35
203	Suite of Elizabethan Dances (from Pavans, Galliards, Almains and Other Short Aeirs, London 1599): The Honie-Suckle 203 / Muy Linda / The Fairie Round / Pavana Ploravit / Wanton / The Night Watch (medley)	The American Brass Quintet	08:49