Brass Quintet no 2

Instrumentation

2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba.

Other Information

Commissioned by ´Brass Pages´ for first performance at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts at Birmingham University on l2th October 1995. The group performed the first movement as soon as it had been written on Canadian TV in the Summer of 1994.

Arrangement  for strings, by Cynthia Downes, of the 2nd movement, entitled ´Queen Elizabeth´s Fantasy´,  first performed at the Clent Millennium Festival (Worcestershire) in April 2000; and subsequently at the May Day 2000 concert at St John´s Church, Hagley (Worcestershire); and at the St Saviour´s Church, Hagley, Centenary Concert on 29th November 2008.