The prevalence of brass ensemble music in the annual series of every medium-sized performing arts center, at least in North America, can lead one to forget how new the phenomenon is. Its contemporary incarnation dates back only to the 1970s, and the Metropolitan Brass Quintet, heard on this reissue disc, was one of its pioneers. Check the photo on ...
The Dorian Wind Quintet, formed at the Tanglewood music festival in Massachusetts in 1961, has continued to exist through several cycles of personnel changes. The idea of the ensemble, which is what endures through those changes, is perhaps an across-the-board ambition for the wind quintet repertory: the group has played existing wind quintet ...
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