Wilhelm-Hansen - Brass ensemble

Musaic (1969) by Per NørgÃ¥rd - for Brass Ensemble and Electronics. Instr: 5 Cornets 3 Trombones and Electronics Progamme Note Among my compositions for brass band three (“Backlight” “Massifs” - crystals - cascades” “Musaic”) all belong to a three-dimensional space. Thus “Massifs - crystals - cascades” was proclaimed from a mountainside towards the audience in the Norwegian town Tromsø and “Backlight” to the special room of the new concert hall at The Music Conservatory of Jutland Denmark.  “Musaic” was composed in 1969 for the inauguration of Edition Wilhelm Hansen’s new branch in Ã…rhus Jutland. Short movements for brass were intermittently heard on the street. In the concert hall all the movements were however heard - also the ones already played; by means of a continuous tape individual fragments of the ´street music´ were gradually collected into one concluding uninterrupted piece lasting all in all 10 minutes a mus(a)ic/muza(i)k…  A synthesis can be heard on a CD from 2007 (by the Brass Ensemble of The Royal Danish Conservatory Jutland) with the note that the work might be much longer when performed live.  Per NørgÃ¥rd (2007)   

Divertimento For Brass Quintet was composed by Anders Koppel in 2004.Commissioned by the Brass Ensemble of the Royal Danish Life Guards.

POD-Fanfares And Chorales for Brass Ensemble was composed by Poul Ruders in 2016. Commissioned by the Royal Danish Academy of Music and professor Jesper Juul Windahl in celebration of RDAM´s 150th anniversary in 2017.

Prelude For Brass by Sunleif Rasmussen (2008). Parts are available on hire: hire@ewh.dk

A dramatic and challenging piece from this equally dramatic and challenging composer. Four Five is written for Brass Quintet.

Parts for Round And In Between (Rundt og Imellem) for Brass Quintet by Hans Abrahamsen (1971/rev.1976). Manuscript copy.

Britta Byström's In The Tower (I tornet) for Brass Quintet (2009). Commissioned by Rikskonserter and CoMa/Musik i Syd for ISCM 2009. Parts available: WH31164A

For French Horn Solo and Brass Band-Adagietto For French Horn Solo And Brass Band was composed by Anders Koppel in 2013.

Round And In Between (Rundt og Imellem) for Brass Quintet by Hans Abrahamsen (1971/rev.1976). Manuscript copy.

Ouverture for Percussion Quartet and Brass Quintet by Anders Koppel. Commissioned as set piece for the finals of'The International Percussion Competition Luxembourg 2015' for percussion quartet.

Ruders writes: 'gl0rIA' is subtitled: 'a relique for large chorus and 12 brass-instruments. At the same time it is an exercise for chorus because only vowels do occur or virtually no consonants are heard. The second part of the Missa Ordinarium the Gloria in Exelcis Deo makes the literary basis of 'g10rIA' but I employ only the vowels which in their full context form a 'non-language' - fragments of a tradition. A less dim vision of the 'severed body' appears in the center of the piece where the Domini Fili-section surfaces in its original shape. 'gl0rIA' is a 20th century composer’s hommage to the innocent faith of bygone days and a fanfare in honour of ClaudioMonteverdi; thus the ever present elaborations of the introduction to the Vespro Della Beate Vergine. Superimposed on the 'torso' of Latin I wedge in a quotation from the Spanish renaissance poet Gonzalo de Berceo’s 'Duelo de la Virgen' a surrealistic Lamento in which the Jews sent by Pilate to stand guard at the tomb of Christ mock and ridicule Maria Jesu mother. Thus a shadow has been cast over the jubilant religious appraisal of the past which today’s knowledge of atrocities and enormities engineered by Mankind has - alas - made so hard to repeat.