Brod, Wind Quintets op. 2 Albert Schweitzer Quintett

Henri Brod (1801-1838)
Wind Quintets op. 2

Albert Schweitzer Quintett

Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn & basson in E flat major, Op. 2/1
Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn & basson in F major, Op. 2/2
Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn & basson in C major, Op. 2/3

Out of print

Piazzolla, Estaciones Porteñas, etc Ma’alot Quintet

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Chamber music arranged for wind quintet

Estaciones Porteñas (1965-70)
Tango Ballet (1956)
Histoire du Tango (1986)
Four for Tango (1987) (*)

Ma’alot Quintet:
Stephanie Winker (flute), Christian Wetzel (oboe), Ulf-Guido Schäfer (clarinet), Volker Grewel (horn), Volker Tessmann (bassoon)

All arrangements by Ulf-Guido Schäfer [except (*) by Volker Grewel]


Another fine CD that looks like it's on the brink of going out of print!

20th century woodwind & reed musictaster collection 2

Eastern Winds - Anthony Iannaccone - Parodies for Woodwind Quintet: Rag

Violetas Visinskas, Liutauras Vebra, lgirdas Doveika, Mindaugas Gecevicius & Jonas Lesys - Arvydas Malcys - Supper for Five

Belgian Wind Quintet - Claude Arrieu - Wind Quintet in C

The University of Georgia Woodwind Quartet - Elliott Carter - Fantasy (from Eight Etudes and a Fantasy)

Phoebus Quintett - Ferenc Farkas - Lavottiana for Woodwind Quintet: Lassú verbunk és figura

Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Wind Quintet - Henning Wellejus - Quintet

Deutsches Saxophon-Ensemble - Henry Mancini - The Pink Panther (arr. by Arthur Frackenpohl)

Equinox Chamber Players - John Lampkin - Migrations: Salmon

Dorian Wind Quintet - Lee Hoiby - Diversions for Wind Quintet: Promenade

The Chicago Chamber Musicians - Paul Pierné - Bucolique variée

Royal Wind Quintet Stockholm - Thierry Escaich - Trois instants fugitifs: I. Prestissimo con fuoco

Imani Winds - Wayne Shorter - Terra Incognita


Total playing time 1:19:11

The first taster collection can be found here:
http://harmoniemusik.blogspot.com/2009/07/20th-century-woodwind-reed-music-taster.html

Bohemian Serenade (Smetana, Triebensee, Krommer) - Bläsersolisten der Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie

Böhmische Serenade

Bläsersolisten der Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie
Silke Avenhaus, piano

Bedrich Smetana: Harmoniemusik from "The Bartered Bride" arranged by Andreas N. Tarkmann
Seht am Strauch die Knospen springen (opening chorus)
Mit der Mutter sank zu Grabe (duet)
Furiant
Mein lieber Schatz, nun aufgepaßt (duet)
Überleg Dir's Marie, bedenk es dir (sextet)
Polka
Weiß ich doch eine, die hat Dukaten (duet)
Dance of the Comedians

Joseph Triebensee: Concertino in E flat for piano and winds
Adagio
Menuetto
Andante con variazione
Menuetto: Allegretto
Rondo

Franz Krommer: Wind Octet/Partita in F, op. 57
Allegro vivace
Minuetto: Presto
Adagio
Alla Polacca


Recorded in 2001
CD out of print

Wind Trios (Haydn, Triebensee, Went, Beethoven, Wranitzky) - Novak Trio

Wind Trios: Haydn, Triebensee, Went, Beethoven, Wranitzky
(Treasures from the Český Krumlov Castle)

Novák Trio:
Gabriela Krčková (oboe), Štěpán Koutník (clarinet), Vladimír Lejčko (bassoon)


Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Divertimento in G (originally for viola, violin and cello)

Josef Triebensee (1772-1846)
Trio in F

Jan/Johann Nepomuk Went (1745-1801)
Trio in B flat

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Trio in C, Op. 87

Anton Vranický/Wranitzky (1761-1820)
Trio in C


Except for Haydn's divertimento, all trios were originally written for two oboes and English horn and are being played here on oboe, clarinet and bassoon in arrangements by Vladimir Lejčko.


Recorded in 1995
CD out of print

Divertimento 'Chorale St. Antoni' (Haydn, Reicha, Danzi, Lickl) - Stuttgarter Bläserquintett

Joseph Haydn
Divertimento (Feldparthie) for 2 oboes, 2 horns, 3 bassoons & serpent* in B flat major ("Chorale St. Antoni"), H. II/46
Allegro con spirito 3:43
Chorale St. Antoni 2:42
Menuetto & Trio 2:07
Rondo. Allegretto 1:56

Anton Reicha
Woodwind Quintet in E flat major, Op. 88/2
Lento. Allegro moderato 5:27
Scherzo: Allegro 2:44
Andante grazioso 3:14
Finale: Allegro molto 2:48

Franz Danzi
Quintet for winds No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 56/1
Allegretto 5:23
Andante con moto 3:39
Menuetto: Allegretto 2:09
Allegro 2:25

Johann Georg Lickl
Quintetto Concertante for winds in F major
Allegro 5:59
Menuetto 4:25
Adagio 6:14
Polacca 3:55


Stuttgarter Bläserquintett:
Willy Freivogel - Flöte, Sigurd Michael - Oboe, Rainer Schumacher - Klarinette, Friedhelm Pütz – Horn, Hermann Herder- Fagott


First published by Pilz in 1989; this CD is from 1991 and out of print.


* Yes, that's more instruments than one would expect to be played by a quintet. Don't ask me! All I can say is that the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet and the Quintett Wien achieve the same miraculous feat.

And if you think that "chorale" theme sounds somehow familiar but can't quite place it, check here.

Elsewhere in the blogosphere

This is the same listing as the blogroll on the right, placed here only so that the entries can be found with the blog search function.

• Large collection of music for woodwinds
• American Breeze - American Music for Woodwind Quintet
• Anton Reicha & F. R. Gebauer, Wind Quintets
• Anton Reicha, Wind Quintets
• Antonín Dvořák, Serenade for Wind - Charles Gounod, Petite Symphonie in B flat
• Antonín Dvořák, Serenade for Wind - George Enescu, Dixtuor - Leoš Jánaček, Mládí
• Antonio Cartellieri, Wind Sextets
• Antonio Rosetti, "A la chasse"
• Antonio Salieri, Harmoniemusiken
• Antonio Salieri, Music for Wind Ensemble
• Antonio Salieri, Wind Serenatas
• Arnold Schoenberg & Jean Françaix, Wind Quintets
• Aulos: "Música para maderas" (Berger, Villa-Lobos, Françaix, Lipatti)
• Budapest Saxophone Quartet: "Baroque"
• Carl Reinecke, Wind Octet & Sextet
• Carl Stamitz, Wind Symphonies
• Collegium Musicum Pragense: Krommer, Druschetzky, Masek, Myslivecek
• David Moritz Michael, Parthien & more
• Felix Mendelssohn, Konzertstücke - Giovanni Simone Mayr, Bagattèlle a tre
• François-Joseph Gossec, Aux Armes, Citoyens!
• Franz Danzi, Wind Quintets Op.67, 1-3
• Franz Krommer, Partitas for Wind Ensemble Op. 45, 1-2 (Michel Thompson)
• Franz Krommer, Partitas for Winds (Amphion)
• Franz Krommer: "Bohemian Winds" (Nachtmusik)
• Franz Schubert & Louis Spohr, Octets
• Frösunda Wind Quintet: Arnold, Farkas, Ibert, Nielsen
• Galliard Ensemble: "Light – Distance" (Portuguese Wind Quintets)
• George Perle, Complete Wind Quintets
• Gioachino Rossini, String Sonatas (arranged for Wind Quartet) - Rotterdam Philharmonic Wind Soloists
• Giovanni Paisiello, Chamber Music for Winds
• Giovanni Paisiello, XII Divertimenti per strumenti a fiato
• Giuseppe Cambini, Trois Quintetti Concertans
• Heitor Villa-Lobos, Compositions for Winds
• Ignaz Pleyel, Octet & Trios
• Johann Christian Bach, Sei Sinfonia
• Joseph Haydn,Trios Esterhazy pour cors de basset
• Joseph Martin Kraus, Incidental Music to Amphitryon (arranged for wind octet)
• Joseph Triebensee, Music for Wind Octet
• Kalamos Clarinet Quartet: Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy, Farkas & Uhl
• Karlheinz Stockhausen, Adieu & Zeitmaße
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Chamber Music for Winds (Consortium Classicum)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Harmoniemusik (Zefiro)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Music for Winds (Ricercar Ac.)
• Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 for Harmonie
• Maestro Finali, Spohr, Salieri, Beer, "Musica della Notte"
• Martin Joseph Mengal, Complete Wind Quintets
• Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition
• Mozzafiato: "Harmoniemusik" (Mozart, Rossini)
• Paul Hindemith, Kleine Kammermusik (rec. ~1925)
• Paul Hindemith, Kleine Kammermusik (rec. ~1939)
• Philip Glass, Saxophone Quartet
• Pierre Мах Dubois, Quatuor роur saxophones - Pierre Vellones, Prélude et Rondo français pour quatuor de saxophones - Pedro Iturralde, Pequena czarda - Jean Françaix, Petit quatuor, etc.
• Raschèr Saxophone Quartet: "Music for Saxophones"
• Rollin' Phones Saxphone Quartet: Singelée, Bozza, Françaix & Glazunov
• Rosetti, Spohr, Beethoven: Harmonie und Janitscharenmusik
• Sinfonietta Ventus: "Música para Divertirse"
• Super Mario for Bassoon Quartet (plus 1)
• The Art of the Jean-Yves Fourmeau Saxophone Quartet
• The Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet
• Théodore Gouvy, Musique de chambre pour vents
• Trio di Bassetto: "Mozart, l'Ami Stadler, et le cor de basset"
• Wallingford Riegger & Francis Poulenc, Works for Piano and Woodwind Quintet
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Ludwig van Beethoven, Quintets for Piano and Winds (Levine)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Ludwig van Beethoven, Quintets for Piano and Winds (Serkin)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimenti de Salzbourg (Philidor)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimenti KV 213, 240, 252, 253, 270, 289 (Octophoros)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Harmoniemusik: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Amadeus Winds)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Harmoniemusiken from six operas (Berlin and Munich winds)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Harmoniemusiken: Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte (Zefiro)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, La flûte enchantée (arr. for 3 bassett horns)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Serenade for Winds K 361/370a "Gran Partita" - many versions
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Serenade for Winds K 361/370a "Gran Partita" (Octophoros)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Serenades for Wind Ensemble K 388 & 375
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Wind Serenades (Hogwood)