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Author: musica  
Date:   2009-05-08 15:03 
 Anyone have any favorites?  I'm looking for some music for a summer 
concert.  The strings are doing their chamber stuff and we need to showcase 
the winds for the 2nd half.  Thanks for any suggestions.
  
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Author: Dileep Gangolli  
Date:   2009-05-08 17:33 
 Only double quintet that I know and have played is by Emile Bernard (sp?).   
 
Also, while not quite a double quintet, the Gounod Petite Sinfonie (1 fl, double ww) is done for situations that you are describing.
  
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Author: LarryBocaner ★2017 
Date:   2009-05-08 17:47 
 Enescu -- Dixtour 
Milhaud -- Little Symphony #5 "Dixtour for wind instruments". 
 
I don't know if these fine works are still in print. When I played the Enescu we found a set of parts in the Washington DC Martin Luther King Library. 
 
  
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Author: Dan Oberlin ★2017 
Date:   2009-05-08 18:14 
 We played a Concertino for Wind and Brass Quintets by Robert Washburn on a band concert a year or so ago.
  
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Author: Dominic  
Date:   2009-05-08 18:14 
 Just been looking at the repertoire available for this type of ensemble 
 
Enescu - Dixtour (cor required) 
Raff - Sinfonietta 
Woolfenden - Serenade for Sophie 
Woolfenden - Reflections Serenade No. 2 
 
Hope that helps! 
 
Dominic 
Cardiff, UK 
  
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Author: Caroline Smale  
Date:   2009-05-08 19:15 
 I have a publication "Seascape" by Ruth Gipps published 1961 by Sam Fox Co NY. It is dedicated to the Portia Wind Ensemble which I recall from the 1950/60's as a group made up of the leading UK professional female players of that time (including Thea King and Georgina Dobree on clarinets). 
According to my scribing on the cover I purchased this in May 1983 in Raleigh NC but sadly it has remained unplayed to this day so can't comment on its quality. 
It uses Engish Horn in lieu of oboe 2 and the clarinets are in A. 
Score and parts back then cost a whole $5!! 
 
  
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Author: musica  
Date:   2009-05-08 20:29 
 I did read some good reviews of the Gipps  Seascape but  I think it calls for 
harp and english horn?
  
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Author: Dileep Gangolli  
Date:   2009-05-08 20:54 
 Here is the most authoritative link that I know of provided to me by an old high school friend whose wife is a UW music librarian.  
 
It lists a myriad of double ww quintets!!!! 
 
http://faculty.washington.edu/gerhart/dwqbibliography/
  
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Author: elmo lewis  
Date:   2009-05-08 23:22 
 Donizetti-Sinfonia (a nonet with one flute) 
Francaix-Le Gai Paris (tpt. solo, 1 flute, contrabsn, 10 parts in total) 
Francaix-Mozart "new-look" (string bass solo, double ww 5tet w/contrabsn.) 
 
  
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Author: clockhorse  
Date:   2009-05-09 13:43 
 John Gibson made a great arrangement of the Brahms' Serenade No. 2.  Check it out: 
 
http://music4woodwinds.com/largerensembles.aspx 
 
Though I haven't played the double wind quintet version, I have played his clarinet choir version and found that he gave every player a juicy part and assumes everybody can play well (nothing boring for the bassoons or horns/low clarinets).
  
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Author: johng ★2017 
Date:   2009-05-09 16:25 
 I am John Gibson, the arranger of the Brahms Serenade #2 that clockhorse mentioned. Just wanted to note that this is actually for a double wind quintet plus a contra-bassoon (11 instruments). Brahms wrote the original serenade for doubled winds and strings minus the violins, so he emphasized the lower notes available. I played the 11 winds version with the Oregon Chamber Players in Portland, Oregon earlier this year and it went very well. I have some excerpts from that performance at http://music4woodwinds.com/honoredrecordings.aspx 
 
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
  
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Author: asabene  
Date:   2009-05-10 03:42 
 Isn't there are an arrangement of the Ravel a tambeau de couperin for double quintet and harp?
  
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Author: David Niethamer  
Date:   2009-05-11 02:07 
 Allan Blank - Paganini Caprice 24 - published by Associated. There's a recording on Centaur (I think?). 
 
David 
niethamer@aol.com 
http://members.aol.com/dbnclar1/index.html
  
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Author: atasic  
Date:   2009-05-16 20:52 
 I played Andre Caplet:Suite Persane 
It is a very beutiful piece and I bought the music thru Vandoren Paris web site.
  
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Author: oliver sudden  
Date:   2009-05-17 12:08 
 Just watch that spelling there folks: dixtuor.  
 
I suppose it doesn't matter too much in this situation but when you swap the u and o in a 'sextuor' it makes people think Poulenc had a habit of going on naughty holidays. 
 
(Which he probably did judging from what I've heard but as far as I know it's not what the piece is about...) 
 
  
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Author: marshall  
Date:   2009-05-18 04:56 
 I've played both Arthur Bird pieces listed on the Tim Reynish site above (the Serenade and the Suite in D) and they're both wonderful pieces of music. I think the Bird Serenade may be one of my favorite chamber pieces I've ever played. 
 
There's also a Tanayev piece written for double quintet, but I don't know how you'd go about getting it. I know that when I played it we were reading off of copies of hand written parts, so I doubt you'd be able to find a copy. 
 
If you pick up two extra horns and a string bass you could do the Strauss Serenade. 
 
 
 
Post Edited (2009-05-18 05:01)
  
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Author: sforzando  
Date:   2009-06-09 21:03 
 Have you played the arrangement of the Clog Dance from Fille Mal Gardee for double wind quintet?  Second horn doubles on woodblock! 
Have a look at www.debenmusic.co.uk 
 
SF 
 
www.debenmusic.co.uk
  
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Author: elmo lewis  
Date:   2009-06-10 01:21 
 I have a copy of the score of the Tanayev if anyone is interested. It's a one-movement Andante.
  
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