Suite for Brass Quintet no 1

Instrumentation

2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba

Other Information

5 movements: Pastorale, Fanfare, Elegy, Folk Dance, Epilogue.
Dedicated to the memory of Bernard Brown.
Commissioned by the Cambrian Brass Ensemble. First performed at the Bernard Brown Memorial Concert in Birmingham Cathedral. Subsequent performances at the Royal Festival Hall and at the Barbican Centre.
Arrangement for strings first performed by young musicians in Hagley, Worcestershire, in April 1998 and again in September 1999. The ´Elegy´ has been recorded as a keyboard piece with flutes for CD by Ellie Brockman with the group "Essence".

´...individual style...immediately characterful´
BIRMINGHAM POST.