performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Wind Ensemble, or below by the Ensemble Zefiro in a wildly different tempo in places (cover image by Jess Watters) This piece is for an ensemble of only ten instruments, all winds, and so is … Continue reading Mozart Divertimento no. 4 in B flat, K. 186
performed by the Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble & Zdenek Jilek, or below with Daniel Hoexter (piano) with members of the Concertgebouw Orchestra (cover image by Aaron Burden) Listening to this work, it just doesn’t surprise me that there aren’t very many works … Continue reading Beethoven Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Winds, op. 16
performed by the Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra (or below by the North Texas Wind Symphony) This is the second piece of the great and interesting Percy Aldridge Grainger that we’ll be discussing, the first of which was his Children’s March. We played this one in school as well, and it’s just so much fun. I know Grainger was Australian, but this is perhaps the reason I think of him as so Irish, because this piece is the first of his that I had any familiarity with, and it’s a setting of two Irish reels. As usual, Wikipedia … Continue reading Grainger: Molly on the Shore