Ensemble

Composed in 1943. Duration 7 minutes. Full score. Parts available: PAT60070SP.

This is a straightforward; yet beautiful arrangement of the famous tune. It will require sensitive musicianship and good technique; but is such a fine piece; it practically plays itself.

Reverie celebrates the wonderfully lyrical voices of the 'traditional' wind quintet - blending together as five singers; yet remaining distinct as individual voices. The work opens and closes as the v...

Since first composing It Takes Four to Tango in 1990 for a clarinet quartet, Dorff has been asked to transcribe/arrange the piece for various instrumental ensembles, with many of the arrangements avai...

The depth and charming inventiveness of Harberg's Suite can only be described as remarkable. Each movement has a degree of archaic inspiration (seen in the movement titles), newly stirred up into dram...

The vernacular charm and wit of Don Gillis's music provides a giddy, cartoon-like set of moods for an instrumental setting of the tortoise, the hare, and their fabled escapades. SUITE NO. 1 is a perfe...

Perfect for pops concerts, SUITE NO. 3 provides a quaint time capsule of jazz-inspired classical music from 1939, soon after Gershwin's death, and just before the hard-edged modern jazz of the 1940s....

There is a refreshing spontaneity to Samuel Adler's WIND CONVERSATIONS for woodwind quintet. The slow introduction explores the timbres of the ensemble in glowing and harmonious polyphony, while the m...

This 5 minute concert opener is sure to start any program with an energetic bang. With a steady rhythmic groove, section solos and a soaring melodic lines, Leshnoff's style in writing accessible, dyna...

Siegfried Idyll was first performed in 1870 on Christmas Day in Wagner's home with a small 13 piece orchestra. It was written as a birthday present for his second wife, Cosine, a year after the birth...

An arrangement for wind quintet from an early piano piece. Quintessential Arnold!

An important and significant work, written in London in 1942 and now published for the first time: 60 years later! The first movement is tuneful and full of those surprises Malcolm loves to introduce...

Unpublished for over sixty years, this typically characterful work is very much in the style of Sir Malcolm's great film scores of the fifties and sixties.

Music from the film, Hobson's Choice, arranged for wind octet (2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons).

An arrangement for wind quintet of five movements from Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks.

The Washington Post (often called "The Washington Post March") is a march composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889. Since then, it has remained as one of his most popular marches, famous throughout the w...

Rondino in Eb (WoO25) was originally written by Beethoven for wind octet in 1793. This arrangement for wind quintet (Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in Bb, Horn in F and Bassoon) by Martin Gatt was first publis...