Sounds of Brazil
The Quintet announces the release of its exciting new recording, SOUNDS OF BRAZIL, on the MSR label. The music includes choros, lullabies and songs by Gaudencio Thiago de Mello who performs with the Quintet on his unique organic percussion from the Amazon. Thiago plays with the Quintet on works by Ernesto Nazareth and Pixinguinha as well. The Quintet is proud to include Changes, a work they commissioned by Brazilian-American pianist and composer Marcelo Zarvos. Rounding out the CD is Ventos, another Quintet commission by a gifted young composer on the New York scene, Ricardo Romaneiro. Guest artists include Blair McMillen on piano and Scott Kuney on guitar.
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Album number: MSR1279
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Karel Husa – Recollections
including:
- Deux Preludes
- Five Poems
- Recollections
- Serenade
This {Poems} is one of the most entertaining and moving works I have heard for wind quintet, beautifully handled by this New York-based group…. I am particularly moved by Husa’s recent music. D. Moore American Record Guide July/August 2004
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Album number: ASIN: B00022LIBQ Click here for ordering information
Dancing in Colombia
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- 15 Colombian dances including bambucos, pasillos, bundes and paseos. Program notes in Spanish and English
Album number: MSR1077
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Self Portrait
- Portrait of the Quintet of the Americas – Pauline Oliveros
- La Loba – Amy Rubin
- Amnesia Breaks – Lee Hyla
- Woodwind Quintet – Christopher Culpo
- JAG – Elliott Sharp
Oliveros – the whole work is improvisatory …Thus, the musicianship of the Quintet becomes even more impressive. Rubin – highly accessible in its infectious tune and rhythms…This is a wonderful group of musicians with wonderful tone, great ensemble… and interests in a wide range of styles.. Robert Carl, Fanfare, March/April 1997
Album number: CRI CD722 Click here for ordering information
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Discovering the New World
With the Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia, Glen Cortese, conductor.
- Concerto for the New World – William Thomas McKinley
- Dos tonos de verde – Roberto Sierra
- The Sou – Louis Ballard
- AMERICA Suite Popular – Ilan Rechtman
Each member of the Quintet of the Americas is a virtuoso in his or her own right….The sound on this MMC disc is extraordinary, and a good thing when dealing with the kaleidoscopic orchestrations of a McKinley or a Sierra. Elliott S. Hurwitt, Schwann OPUS Summer 1997
Album number: MMC2018 Click here for ordering information
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Souvenirs
20 Musical Mementos from the New World
including:
- Overture to Candide – Leonard Bernstein
- Muskrat Ramble – Edward Ory
- La Cumparsita – G. H. Matos
- Summertime – George Gershwin
- Ragtime Dance – Scott Joplin
- The Soul – Louis Ballard
- Struttin’ Butterflies – James Cohn
- Tournament Gallop – Louis Gottschalk
- Summer Music, op. 31 – Samuel Barber
Quintet of the Americas…is a sensation. Their virtuosity, balances, articulation and intonation mark them as on eof the world’s top wind quintets. I have never heard finer playing. Heuwell Tircuit, In Tune, 6/15/93
Spontaneity is apparent at every turn in these witty, inventive, and colorful readings. Carter, American Record Guide, March/April 1993
Album number: XLNT 18008 Click here for ordering information
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Never Sing Before Breakfast
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- Never Sing Before Breakfast – Steven Mackey
- Comedies – Jeffrey Wood
- Essays – Roberto Sierra
- On Seven-Star-Shoes – Julia Wolfe
- Ellis Island – Stuart Balcomb
- Delizie Contente che l’Alme Beate – Jacob Druckman
- Quintet for Wind Instruments – Ursula Mamlok
Quintet of the Americas certainly knows how to pick new music; or is it simply that their gorgeous playing makes it all sound do good? I think it is both, and this has become one of my favorite discs of new music for winds. James H. North, Fanfare, Jan/Feb 1992
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XANGO
A Centenary Celebration
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- Quinteto en Forma de Chìros
- Chìros No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 7
- New York Skyline
- Trio for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon
- Fuga – Sobre um tema de car†ter popular brasileira
- Canáoes Tipicas Brasileiras
…some of Villa-Lobos’ seldom-heard pieces…including Choros 3 for male voices and 7 winds, as well as the three Typical Brazilian Songs of 1919 and the Fugue on a Popular Brazilian Theme. …It’s easy to recommend this nicely performed and recorded collection of enjoyable music. Lehman, American Record Guide, July/August 1992
Album number: Newport Classic NPD85518 Click here for ordering information
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Ordering Information
All CD’s $18. Cassette Tapes $10 Postage and handling $3.00 for first CD/tape and $1 each additional.
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