Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Listening Session #1 - Historic Brass Ensemble Music

The YouTube video below features the Sonata Pian e Forte from Gabrieli's "Sacred Symphonies". This performance is by the brass section of the Bayerische Staatsoper, conducted by Zubin Metha.


This is the listening list from today's class:

  • La Feliciana a 4 by Adriano Banchieri and La Bignani by Giovanni Cavaccio recorded by The English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble.
  • Canzon I by Peuerl recorded by Atlantic Brass Quintet.
     
  • Canzona by Samuel Scheidt recorded by the trombone quartet Four Of A Kind. 
  •  Canzona Duodecimi Toni by Giovanni Gabrieli.  
  • The New Year's Gift by Anthony Holborne recorded by Atlantic Brass Quintet.
  •  Les plaisirs de la chasse, and Le chevreuil recorded by the Cor de chasse ensemble, Le Rallye-Cor de Montmélian. 
  • Jewel Waltz and Ellen Bayne Quickstep by G.W.E. Friederich recorded by the Empire Brass Quintet & Friends on The American Brass Band Journal.
     
     
  • Quintet No. 2 in C major (c. 1850) by Jean François Victor Bellon Recorded by the Ewald Brass Quintet. [I. Allegro, II. Minuetto, III. Andante, IV. Rondo] Rusasca De La Buzdug (traditional) recorded by the Balkan Brass Band, Fanfare Ciocărlia







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