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American Brass Quint - Music for Brass Quintet [New CD]. 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. Title: Music for Brass Quintet. American Brass Quint - Music for Brass Quintet [New CD] Artist: American Brass Quintet Title: Music for Brass Quintet Condition: Format: CD Release Date: 2012 Label: Folkways Records UPC: 093070365124 Genre: Classical Album Tracks 1. Vive Le Roi (Long Live the King) - Josquin Des Pres 2. Canzona la Spiritata - Giovanni Gabrieli 3. Desperavi (I Have Despaired) - Michael East 4. Triptych for Brass Quintet: Rotational Games: Scherzo - Charles Whittenberg 5. Triptych for Brass Quintet: Sustenuto / Canonic Fanfares (Medley) (Elegy in Memory of Anton Webern, 1883-1945) - Charles Whittenberg 6. Contrapunctus Number Three (From the Art of Fugue) - Johann Sebastian Bach 7. Brass Quartet: Fantasia / Arioso / Toccata (Medley) - Ulysses Kay 8. 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) 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. Copyright DirectToU LLC. All Rights Reserved.