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Author: Mario Poirier
Date: 2005-03-13 17:32
Dear friends:
Our amateur wind quintet (OCO) is at a level where Lefebre, Ibert, Danzi, the Andraud's Book, and so one, can be delivered at an acceptable public performance level (i.e.: people will enjoy themselves listening).
We are very familiar of course with the big quintets from Nielsen, Francais, Ligeti, Barber, which are beyond our collective abilities at the present.
We would like to broaden our library with some additional original wind quintet pieces technically accessible to us and musicall pleasant with the public. Before spending money buying CD and music, we would love a recommendation (based on your personal experience playing the recommended piece in public) on the following quintets. Do they potentially meet our technical/musical criteria?
Arnold "Three shanties"
Brana suite of 8 short pieces
Cooke "A medieval piece"
D'Rivera "Aires Tropicales"
Hindemith "Kleine Kammermusik"
Holts "Wind Quintet in Ab"
Hovhaness "Wind Quintet"
Jacob "Wind quintets #1 and #2"
Milhaud "Divertissement"
Muczynski "Quintet for winds"
Prokofieff "Peter and the Wolf" arranged for w. quintet - does it work?
Yes, we know that there are many others the catalog from reputable composers. We did not ask for a recommendation for them because we have CDs or music already in our possession and we could evaluate by ourselves.
We are trying to avoid building a library with new material unknown to us that will prove not being suitable (an expensive outcome indeed as we always buy music and a couple fo CDs to guide us), hence the need for a first, second, third,..., umpteen opinions.
Merci beaucoup!
Mario Poirier
Mario Poirier
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Author: Elizabeth
Date: 2005-03-13 20:47
Mario Poirier
Three Shanties is a great piece to listen to and play. I've performed it many of times and it has always gone over well.
The Hindemith is challenging, but it's a great piece!
Hope this helps.
Post Edited (2005-03-13 20:47)
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Author: Liam
Date: 2005-03-13 23:35
The D'Rivera is very difficult and takes a lot of practice (and also an alto flute and an english horn) and if one person gets off in a couple of the movements, the whole group will. However, it is a great piece and if you have a lot of time to practice it and put it together (in addition to a lot of individual practice), I'd say go for it. As far as the "Peter and the Wolf", it depends on which arrangement it is, as many of those types of pieces have several arrangements (such as Dvorak's 7th Slavonic Dance or the theme from Carmen).
hope that helps,
Liam
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2005-03-14 03:07
Yeah, agreed. The d'Rivera is VERY challenging but well worth it. I performed that my senior year of high school with our wind quintet and it was a challenge, no question. But it is well within the range of good musicians.
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