Brass and Cat's Affairs

I have found some interesting arrangements of the music by Piazzolla for the brass ensemble. A. Piazzolla Libertango KYIV-BRASS I found this recording very interesting because of the very brassy sound texture of the whole group.  KYIV BRASS KYIV-BRASS is a professional brass ensemble of international standing from Ukraine. The artists of the National Concert Hall for Organ and Chamber Music in Kiev, one of the most important cultural institutions in Ukraine, are among the most renowned musicians of the Ukrainian brass school. They are winners of numerous international competitions and take part in many ensembles and projects in Ukraine. The leader of the ensemble is the Ukrainian trumpeter Andriy Ilkiv, who is also the principal trumpeter of the Würth Philharmonic. For more than 15 years he has been a soloist at the National Concert Hall for Organ and Chamber Music in Kiev. Appearances have taken him to the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Munich Philharm...

I want to introduce some Japanese Brass groups in this blog.  Twilight Trombone Quartet The members of Twilight Trombone Quartet are Takeshi Imamura, Akihiro Higashikawa, Junichi Hirota, and bass trombonist Keiichiro Sato. It formed in 2008 by graduate and undergraduate students studying together at Tokyo University of the Arts. Since its inception, the band has been involved in a wide range of activities, including appearances at various concerts, events such as the National Trombone Festival, and charity events. In particular, the works created and adapted by the members, which give full play to the charm of the instrument trombone and their respective characteristics, are the core repertoire of this quartet.  In addition, critically acclaimed performances such as skit-themed musicals developed a stage that was not bound by the framework of a trombone quartet.  Memory ~Cats~(Andrew Lloyd Webber,Arr.Jun-ichi Hirota) 侍BRASS 侍BRASS formed in the fall 2006, which is th...

 American  Brass Quintet  Oftentime, It is more common to have a tuba in the brass quintet to play the lower sound. American Brass Quintet founded in 1960, employs bass trombone instead of tuba to play the low range in their group. So far, they have had their bass trombonists in their history. John D. Rojak is the current bass trombonist playing in the group. This music is called the  “Suite of Elizabethan Dances” by Anthony Holborne .  Suite from the Italian Renaissance Hailed by Newsweek as “ the high priests of brass ,” the American Brass Quintet is internationally recognized as one of the era’s premier chamber music ensembles. “The most distinguished” of brass quintets (American Record Guide), the group has earned its stellar reputation through its celebrated performances, genre-defining commissioned works, and ongoing commitment to the education of generations of musicians. Since its founding in 1960, the American Brass Quintet has performed on five conti...

  Chris Hazell's Cats In this post, I want to introduce Chris Hazzell's cats. He composed this brass ensemble music of his former stray cats, Mr. Jums, Black Sam, and Borage. Obviously, each cat has very different characteristics according to each movement. Chris Hazell  studied composition at the Royal College of Music before joining the Argo division of Decca in 1973 as a producer. There he continued the legendary recordings of Sir Neville Marriner, Philip Jones, King's College Cambridge and Peter Hurford amongst others. As the Decca Group labels evolved his artist base widened to incorporate such names as Sir Georg Solti, Dame Joan Sutherland, Charles Dutoit and Sir Charles Mackerras with the Berlin, Chicago, Montreal Symphony and all the major London Orchestras, becoming Senior Producer in 1992. His many recordings with David Zinman in Baltimore have continued (after becoming freelance in 1997) with the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich, on their award winning Beethoven Symp...