By customer request I have arranged (or, more properly, re-arranged) Elgar’s Six Promenades to add to the Five Intermezzos I arranged some time ago. Lovely music he wrote as a 21 year old and rehearsed with his brother and pals in a shed at the back of his father’s music shop – hence calling it ‘Shed Music‘!
Tag: Wind quintet
The Floral Dance – a bit of wind quintet summer cheer in these cold winter months
NEW: Something to remind us (in the Northern hemisphere at any rate) of warmer weather – Katie Moss’s The Floral Dance. Continue reading The Floral Dance – a bit of wind quintet summer cheer in these cold winter months
Butterworth’s ‘Banks of Green Willow’ released on CD by the Pavlova Wind Quintet
Do look out for this CD from the wonderful Pavlova Wind Quintet which includes – amongst all sorts of interesting repertoire – ‘a beautiful arrangement by Lisa Portus of Butterworth’s haunting ‘Banks of Green Willow” as reviewed by Meyrick Alexander in the latest edition of Double Reed News. Find out more.
New for Christmas 2017: ‘Walking in the Air’ (from ‘The Snowman’)
Following a customer request I am extremely pleased to announce the arrival of an arrangement of Howard Blake’s wonderful Walking in the Air from the 1982 animated film The Snowman. Sure to become a wind quintet Christmas staple?!
Masked ball anyone?
Hot off the press, Khachaturian’s Waltz from the Masquerade Suite. Sure to be a favourite for wind quintets Continue reading Masked ball anyone?
Pierne’s “Album pour mes petits amis”
Pierne’s Album pour mes petits amis captures childhood innocence in music and is reminiscent of works like Faure’s Dolly Suite. ‘Pastorale’ is already an established wind quintet, here followed by 5 more movements… Continue reading Pierne’s “Album pour mes petits amis”
Handel’s beautiful Sarabande, three ways …
NEW: The beautiful and supremely stately Sarabande from Handel’s Suite in D Minor HWV437 in arrangements for wind quintet, wind quartet and bassoon quartet.
Four arrangements of Paul Lincke’s music – Berlin’s “Johann Strauss”
Yes, four new arrangements by the wonderful Paul Lincke! Two wind quintets, one bassoon quartet and one arrangement for wind quintet and piano. Continue reading Four arrangements of Paul Lincke’s music – Berlin’s “Johann Strauss”
Dixieland for wind quintet?
The very first piece of published jazz – the self-named Jelly Roll Blues. Great Dixieland fun for wind quintet and a fitting sister piece to the likes of my other very popular arrangements of Gershwin, Joplin and Abreu. Continue reading Dixieland for wind quintet?
A new Christmas piece for wind quintet by Saint-Saens
Not your average Christmas repertoire here with the diving opening Prelude from Saint-Saens’ Christmas Oratorio arranged for wind quintet which really sets the scene for the Christmas story. Continue reading A new Christmas piece for wind quintet by Saint-Saens