The University of Nebraska Brass Quintet recital brings together several pieces from some of its favorite composers for its October 26 performance in Kimball Recital Hall beginning at 7:30 p.m.
“We have done David Baldwin’s transcription of Vivaldi/Bach’s Concerto in Bb and his second, the a minor Concerto is a great musical and technical challenge,” University of Nebraska Brass Quintet member Scott Anderson said. “There is no original baroque music for quintet, but Baldwin’s transcription will leave you doubting that assertion.”
“The French work on the program is the Golden Suite by Henri Sauguet. This piece is one of the first commissions from the New York Brass Quintet and is rather atypical of most French brass music. The suite is in three movements and mines the soft and mellow side of the brass quintet. Sauguet’s work is rarely performed but not because there is any shortcoming in the work. It simply isn’t as flashy as some of the offerings by Eugene Bozza or Henri Tomasi.”
The Molineux Encounter is from the American school of composition and according to Molineux ‘based on the opening chord (primarily the minor second and augmented fourth). Rhythmically, the piece is a continuum of eighth and sixteenth notes with manipulation of meter and small groups of eighth notes creating the desired variety.’
Finally, we are pleased to play one of the first pieces written for brass quintet. While new scholarship places the Quintet #1 by Victor Ewald as likely his second quintet, it is still the most performed and best known of his works. Ewald was not a professional musician but rather an engineer by trade. He played in quintets and wrote four original works. He likely didn’t write for the modern trombone but rather for alto horn instead. The Quintet in Bb is recognizable to all brass players and has immediate audience appeal.
Tickets for the performance are General Admission $5; Student/Seniors $3.