13 attractive pieces by well-known composers represent a small music-historical outline of different dance types: From pavane to minuet to ragtime- from Purcell to Beethoven to Grieg....
All pieces have been carefully arranged for woodwind quartet in variable instrumentation. A real treasure trove and an enrichment of the literature for woodwind ensembles in solo or choral instrumentation.
Contents:
01 Dance Suite // P. Peurl (ca.1575-1625)
02 Tre pezzi dall' 'Orfeo' / Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
03 Monkey's Dance // H.Purcell (1659-1695)
04 Gavotte I & II // J.S.Bach (1685-1750)
05 Alla Siciliana 'La Paix' / G.F.Händel (1685-1759)
06 Three Minuets // W.A.Mozart (1756-1791)
07 Two Irish Jig-Tunes / L.van Beethoven (1770-1827)
08 Quatre Valses sentimentales // Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
09 Mazurka // F.Chopin (1810-1849)
10 Habanera from 'Carmen' // G.Bizet (1838-1875)
11 From Russia 'Kamarinskaya', 'Ej uchnjem' // trad./P.I. Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
12 Nordic Dance 'Stabbe-Laaten' // E.Grieg (1843-1907)
13 A Breeze from Alabama // Scott Joplin (1868-1917)