The Best of The New York Woodwind Quintet (Vol. 2)

The New York Woodwind Quintet:
Samuel Baron, Jerome Roth, David Glazer, John Barrows, and
Arthur Weisberg
with Bernard Garfield, Ronald Roseman, Ralph Froelich

Darius Milhaud - La Cheminée du Roi René, suite for wind quintet
Jacques Ibert - Trois pièces brèves, for wind quintet
Irving Fine - Partita for Wind Quintet
Alec Wilder - Up Tempo from Quintet for woodwinds No. 1
David van Vactor - Scherzo
Heitor Villa-Lobos - Quinteto em forme de choros, A. 231
Heitor Villa-Lobos - Duette for flute & bassoon (Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6, A. 392)
Paul Hindemith - Kleine Kammermusik, for wind quintet, Op. 24/2

The recordings date from 1958-1964.

This CD is OOP.

Fagottissimo - Gürzenich Fagottquintett

Some more light entertainment ...

FAGOTTISSIMO - Virtuose Raritäten für Fagotte

Gürzenich Fagottquintett:
Rainer Schottstädt, Jörg Steinbrecher, Klaus Lohrer, Heino Wiechmann, Hans-Joachim Leetz
& Elisabeth Balmas, violin

Julius Fucik (arr. John Iskra): Thunder and Blazes
Alan Ridout: Pigs
Julius Weissenborn: Polonaise - Polka - Türkischer Marsch
Georg ter Voert: Polka in Swing
Matyas Seiber (arr. Christian Kuntze): Foxtrott
Peter Schickele (a.k.a. P. D. Q. Bach): Last Tango in Bayreuth
Vittorio Monti (arr. A. Kulling/R. Schottstädt): Csárdás
Gordon Jacob: Prelude, Fugue & Scherzo
Eugene Bozza: Divertissements für 3 Fagotte
Peter Jansen: Scherzo, Nocturno und Burlesca
Serge Prokofiew: Humoristisches Scherzo Op. 12/9
Charles Gounod (arr. G. W. Latzenhise): Marionettenmarsch
Kurt Noack (arr. Rainer Schottstädt): Heinzelmännchens Wachtparade


1990 (OOP)

Lickl, Wind Music - Calamus Ensemble

Johann Georg Lickl (1769-1843)

Sextet for 2 Clarinets, 2 Horns and 2 Bassoons in E flat major, Op. 11, No.1
Quintet for 2 Clarinets, 2 Horns and Bassoon in E flat major, Op. 21
Cassatione for Oboe, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon in E flat major
Sextet for 2 Clarinets, 2 Horns and 2 Bassoons in E flat major, Op. 11, No.2

The Calamus Ensemble:
Washington Barella, oboe
Wolfgang Meyer, clarinet
Benjamin Dieltjens, clarinet
Clara-Christine Hohorst, horn
Yvonne Haas, horn
Rainer Schottstädt, bassoon
Ruth Krabbe, bassoon

It seems the CD is on the brink of going out of print. Better get it now if you like the music.

Dvorak, Chamber music arranged for wind quintet - Ma'alot Quintet

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)

Four Slavonic Dances (1878/1886)
Quartet for Strings in F major, Op. 96/B 179 "American" (1893)
Bagatelles for 2 Violins, Cello and Harmonium, Op. 47/B 79 (1878)

All works arranged for wind quintet by Ulf-Guido Schäfer or Volker Grewel

Ma'alot Quintet
Stephanie Winker - Flute
Christian Wetzel - Oboe
Ulf-Guido Schäfer - Clarinet
Volker Grewel - Horn
Volker Tessmann - Bassoon
(This German quintet takes its name from the common name of psalms 120-134, the "Psalms of Ascent".)

Except for an angry (and, with respect to the misrepresentations of the artists' statements in the booklet, pretty annoying) review in Fanfare this recording has had a rather enthusiastic welcome by the critics. I think that especially the arrangement of the "American" quartet, which is so frowned upon by the Fanfare critic, works very well.

Woodwind Treasures - Westwood Wind Quintet

The Westwood Wind Quintet (of Los Angeles) was founded in 1959 and performed actively for close to 40 years. This CD is made from recordings in 1971 and 1981.


Woodwind Treasures

Westwood Wind Quintet
John Barcellona (Flute 1981), Gretel Shanley (Flute 1971), David Atkins (Clarinet 1971 & 1981), Peter Christ (Oboe 1971 & 1981), Robert Henderson (French Horn 1971), Calvin Smith (French Horn 1981), Kay Brightman (Bassoon 1971), Kenneth Meyer (Bassoon 1981)


August Klughardt (1847-1902)
Wind Quintet in C, Op. 79 (1901)

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Opus Number Zoo, for speaker & wind quintet (1951/1970)

George Heussenstamm (b.1926)
Seven Etudes, for oboe, clarinet & bassoon, Op. 77 (1964)

Boris Pillin (b.1940)
Scherzo for Wind Quartet

Robert Linn (1925-1999)
Quintet for Winds (1963)

Herman Stein (1915-2007)
Sour Suite, for wind quintet (1968)


First recordings of all works except the quintet by August Klughardt

Lachner, Octet & Nonet - Consortium Classicum

Franz Lachner (1803-1890)

Nonet in F major (1875)
for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass
I. Andante. Allegro moderato
II. Menuetto (Allegro moderato)
III. Adagio
IV. Finale (Allegro ma non troppo)

Octet in B flat major, op. 156 (published in 1850)
for flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons (with double bass ad lib.)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Adagio
III. Scherzo (Allegro assai)
IV. Finale (Allegro ma non troppo)

Consortium Classicum
Dieter Klöcker

Recorded in 1974
Published on CD in 2002
Out of print

20th century woodwind & reed music taster collection

A bagful of short(-ish) compositions and arrangements for woodwind and reed instruments by 20th century composers

Contents:
Amstel Saxophone Quartet - Arvo Pärt - Fratres
Aurelia Saxophone Quartet - George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
Borealis Wind Quintet - George Gershwin - Bess You Is My Woman Now
Dorian Wind Quintet - Lalo Schifrin - La Nouvelle Orleans
East Winds - Malcolm Arnold - Allegro con brio (Shanties for Wind Quintet)
Leta Miller et al - Henry Cowell - Heroic Dance
Quinteto de Vientos Argos - Gerardo Gandini - Double para quinteto de vientos
Reykjavik Wind Quintet - Atli Petersen - Blasarkvintett (Wind Quintet)
Scandinavian Wind Quintet - Per Norgard - Whirl's World
Swedish Wind Ensemble - Hugo Alfvén - Vallflickans dans (from Bergakungen Suite)
The Caliban Quartet - Duke Ellington - Caravan
The Chicago Chamber Musicians - Darius Milhaud - Pastorale

Total playing time 1:19:30



Perhaps I should mention that ....

There was a young fellow called Max
Who kept all his music as Flacs.
He lacked any empathy,
For the old MP3 ...
That's why he missed many good tracks.

Cambini & Briccialdi, Wind Quintets. Avalon Wind Quintet

Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881)
Wind Quintet in D major, Op. 124

Giuseppe Maria Cambini (1746-1825)
Wind Quintet No. 1 in B major
Wind Quintet No. 2 in D minor
Wind Quintet No. 3 in F major


Avalon Wind Quintet
Daniel Lampert, flute
Stefan Schilli, oboe
Stefan Zimmer, clarinet
Christian Lampert, French horn
Bernhard Straub, bassoon


Penguin Guide 2002 Rosette Recommendation

Druschetzky, Six Partitas for Wind Octet. I Fiati Italiani

Georg Druschetzky / Jiří Družecký
(1745-1819)

Sei partite per otto fiati (1784)

I Fiati Italiani:
oboi - Maurizio Colasanti, C. di Bucchianico
clarinetti - Antonello Pellegrini, R. Masci
corni - Marcello Martella, D. di Martile
fagotti - Alfonso Patriarca, D. Luciani

First recordings

Mondo Musica, 2000 (OOP)

Harmonie Music - Ottetto Amsterdam

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837)
Parthia in E flat major for nine wind instruments (1803)
1. Allegro con spirito
2. Andante piu tosto allegretto
3. Vivace assai

Joseph Myslivecek (1737-1781)
Parthia in E flat major for eight wind instruments and double bass (1770)
4. Allegro maestoso
5. Larghetto un poco sostenuto
6. Menuetto alternativo I, II, III - coda

Georg Druschetzky (1745-1819)
Variazioni for eight wind instruments and double bass (1784)
7. Allegro

Frantisek Kramar (Franz Krommer) (1759-1831)
Harmonie in F major for nine wind instruments (c. 1810)
8. Allegro vivace
9. Andante allegretto
10. Menuetto allegretto - trio - menuetto da capo
11. Allegro


Paul van der Linden, Vincent van Ballegooyen - oboe
Joost Hekel, Jochen Seggelke - clarinetto
Teunis van der Zwart, Franz Josef Pickl - horn
Eckhard Lenzing, Thomas Kiefer - bassoon
Jürgen Eppelsheim - double bassoon
Jacques van der Meer - double bass


Recorded 1993


This CD is out of print but copies may still be available
directly from the artists.

Works by Paul Juon & Hans Huber. Schweizer Bläserquintett

Paul Juon (1872-1940)
Arabesken. Trio for oboe, clarinet & bassoon, Op. 73 (1941)
Wind quintet in B major, Op. 84 (1930)

Hans Huber (1852-1921)
Sextet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano in B major (1898)

Schweizer Bläserquintett
with Michiko Otaki, piano

Recorded October 1996

This CD is out of print.

The sheet music for Huber's sextet is freely available from here.

Myslivecek, Three Wind Octets; Haydn, Partita. Albert Schweitzer Oktett

Josef Mysliveček (1737-1781)

Three Wind Octets (c.1770)

Octet for winds, No 1 in E flat major
1. Allegro maestoso
2. Larghetto un poco sostenuto
3. Tempo di menuetto

Octet for winds No. 2 in E flat major
4. Allegro spiritoso
5. Largo, sotto voce
6. Rondo. Allegretto

Octet (Parthia) for winds No. 3 in B flat major
7. Allegro
8. Larghetto un poco di moto
9. Presto


Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Harmonie (Partita, Parthia, Octet) Hob. II: F7 (c.1802)
for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons & 2 horns in F major
10. Allegro moderato
11. Andante con variazioni
12. Menuetto. Allegretto
13. Finale. Allegro

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians suggests
this work is "probably by P. Wranitzky" but the author of
the liner notes, Gerhard Pätzig, disagrees with this attribution.


Albert Schweitzer Oktett


Recorded 8-11 November 1994


This CD is out of print.

Ravel & Debussy - Calefax Reed Quintet

Claude Debussy

Children's Corner, suite for piano (or orchestra), L. 113
Arranged by Raaf Hekkema

Six épigraphes antiques
Arranged by Eduard Wesly


Couperin - Ravel
Forlane
Arranged by Alban Wesly


Maurice Ravel

Le tombeau de Couperin, for piano
Arranged by Raaf Hekkema


Calefax Reed Quintet
Ivar Berix, clarinet
Raaf Hekkema, saxophone
Jelte Althuis, bass clarinet
Alban Wesly, bassoon
Eduard Wesly, oboe

Recorded in June 1995


An unusual combination of instruments, producing a beautiful sound. I recommend to check out the group's wonderful interpretation of Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Nouvelles Suites" and the samples on their own website (http://calefax.nl/audio/).

Martin Joseph Mengal, Complete Wind Quintets. Das Reicha'sche Quintett

Martin Joseph Mengal (1784-1851)
Complete Wind Quintets

Das Reicha’sche Quintett

Recorded 2003
Published 2005


CD 1

Quintet after Haydn
1. Allegro non troppo
2. Andante
3. Minuetto: Allegretto
4. Finale: Allegro

Quintet after Mozart
1. Allegro non troppo
2. Adagio
3. Minuetto: Allegretto
4. Finale: Allegro


CD 2

Quintet after Beethoven
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Minuetto: Allegro
4. Finale: Allegro

Quintet after Rossini
1. Adagio
2. Allegro non troppo


Three of these quintets were published in 1824 by Ignaz Pleyel. They incorporate themes by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, respectively. The fourth one, however, probably predates this collection. The music cites Rossini's opera “The Barber of Seville”, which was first performed in 1816.


It appears that this CD set may be about to go out of print.

The Unbelievable Mozart - Consortium Classicum

These are all chamber music works for winds or winds and strings that are somehow related to Mozart. They are (more or less) contemporary re-workings of Mozart's own compositions, works whose attribution to Mozart is likely but uncertain or reconstructions from fragments. Almost all pieces have been recorded here for the first time.

The CDs were originally published as ?Mozart! Vol. 1, 2, etc., and later re-issued as a boxed set under the title The Unbelievable Mozart.

Vol. 1


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Octet in F Major, KV App. C 17.05 and B to 370a
for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
1. Adagio - Allegro (7:38)
2. Andante (8:45)
3. Minuetto (3:23)
4. Rondo (4:25)

Sextet (Parthia) in E flat major (KV deest)
for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
1. Allegro molto (5:19)
2. Adagio (6:19)
3. Minuetto (3:45)
4. Finale: Allegro (2:39)

Octet in E flat major, KV App. C 17.03
for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
(possibly by Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, 1757 - 1831)
1. Adagio - Allegro (7:15)
2. Minuetto (3:48)
3. Romanze: Andante (6:01)
4. Minuetto (3:13)
5. Finale: Allegro assai (3:09)


Consortium Classicum

1994

Vol. 2


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Octet (Divertimento) in E flat major, KV App. 224, C 17.07 and App. B to 370
for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
1. Adagio - 2. Allegro (8:33)
3. Menuetto (3:05)
4. Adagio (4:58)
5. Menuetto (3:21)
6. Thema mit Variationen: Adagio (3:48)
7. Rondo (3:17)

Theme and Variations on "Unser dummer Pöbel meint" in F major (KV deest)
for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
(possibly by Jiri Druschetzky, 1745-1819)
Thema - Variationen 1-4 (6:11)

Octet (Partita) in B flat major (after KV 425)
for flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
(possibly by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, 1778-1837)
1. Adagio - 2. Allegro spiritoso (9:46)
3. Andante (8:40)
4. Menuetto (3:28)
5. Presto (6:56)


Consortium Classicum

1995

Vol. 3


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Octet (Divertimento) in E flat major (KV deest)
for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
1. Adagio - 2. Allegro molto (10:15)
3. Un poco adagio (3:47)
4. Menuetto (3:34)
5. Rondo: Allegro (3:11)

Sextet in B flat major, KV 439b (Prague version, pub. 1813)
for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass
1. Allegro (3:24)
2. Menuetto 1 (4:31)
3. Adagio (4:12)
4. Menuetto 2 (4:21)
5. Rondo: Allegro assai (4:08)

Serenade (Parthia) in E flat major (KV deest)
for 2 Oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass
(possibly by Vinzenz Masek, 1755-1831)
1. Allegro moderato (6:52)
2. Poco adagio (3:59)
3. Menuetto (3:13)
4. Largo - 5. Romanza: Poco allegro (3:54)


Consortium Classicum

1996

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Vol. 4


Franz Anton Hoffmeister (1754–1812)
Sextet (Partita) in E flat major, after KV 386c/563
for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
1. Allegro (5:40)
2. Andantino (6:09)
3. Menuetto (2:54)
4. Rondo: Allegro (3:41)

Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) (more likely than Mozart)
Sextet in B flat major, KV C 17.09
for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
1. Allegro (3:18)
2. Adagio (2:21)
3. Menuetto (3:21)
4. Finale: Allegro (2:14)

Archduke Rudolph of Austria (1788-1831)
Octet in F major, after KV 497
for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
1. Adagio - Allegro molto (8:44)
2. Andante (11:21)
3. Rondo: Allegro (6:38)


Consortium Classicum

1998

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Vol. 5


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Quintett in B flat major, after KV 458
for oboe, violin, 2 violas, and violoncello
(arranged by Joseph Rosinack, c.1750-1823)
1. Allegro vivace (7:55)
2. Menuetto (3:59)
3. Adagio (7:14)
4. Allegro assai (4:47)

Octet in E flat major, after KV 452
for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, violoncello, and double bass
(arrangement from 1799)
1. Largo - Allegro moderato (10:32)
2. Larghetto (9:34)
3. Allegretto (5:37)


Anon.

Quartet in E flat major (KV deest)
for clarinet and string trio
1. Allegro (6:46)
2. Adagio (3:04)
3. Polonaise (5:07)
4. Rondo: Allegro (2:58)


Consortium Classicum

1998

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Vol. 6


Johann Christian Stumpf (1740-1801)
Serenade in E flat major, after KV 614
for 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
1. Allegro molto (6:52)
2. Andante (4:51)
3. Menuetto (4:01)
4. Allegro (3:43)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Fragments, KV Anh. 384
for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
(reconstructed by Eberhard Buschmann)
1: Marcia KV Anh. 384b (2:47)
2: Chaconne KV Anh. 384 B (5:07)
3: Menuet KV Anh. 384c (3:22)

Johann Simon Hermstedt (1778-1846)
Nonet in E flat major, after KV 428 (421b)
for flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons and double bass ad lib.
1. Allegro ma non troppo (7:07)
2. Andante con moto (6:30)
3. Menuetto (5:57)
4. Finale: Allegro vivace (5:20)


Consortium Classicum

1999

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Vol. 7


Adagio in B flat major, KV 484a
for 2 clarinets and 3 bassett horns

Serenade in B flat major "Gran Partita", KV 361 (370a)
arr. for strings and winds by Franz Gleissner (1759-1818)
1. Largo - Molto allegro (9:19)
2. Menuetto (8:57)
3. Adagio (6:02)
4. Menuetto (5:02)
5. Romance: Adagio - Allegretto (7:03)
6. Tema con variazioni (10:21)
7. Finale: Molto allegro (3:20)


Consortium Classicum

2001


Boxed set available at an excellent price (from about 3-4 pounds/euros/dollars per CD).