Center City Brass Quintet

Editorial Reviews
Cleveland Plain Dealer, 3/23/97
"The Center City Brass Quintet are superlative champions of six works that are masterpieces of the brass repertoire. This is brass playing that glows, sings, and abounds in dazzling colors."

TUBA Journal, Winter/97
"Each performance is splendid and can serve as an archival copy for the next generation of students and teachers."

Album Description
This is the recording that put the Center City Brass Quintet on the map, now re-released on Chandos! (Originally "Brass Quintets"/Collins Classics 14892). Called "one of the all-time great brass quintet recordings" by the American Record Guide, it contains many of the most important, often-played works in the brass quintet repertoire - all in one album! A vital reference recording for brass players, and an amazing display of virtuosity that will delight all listeners.

Center City Brass Quintet

Center City Brass Quintet, Music, Malcolm Arnold, Eugene Bozza, Morley Calvert, Ingolf Dahl, Victor Ewald, Ludwig Maurer, Steven Witser, Brass Chamber Music, Chamber, Chamber Music, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Quintet for Five Brass Instruments, Quintet for Mixed Instruments without Keyboard

Center City Brass
Average customer rating:

Straightforward Playing

Nothing like it

Best brass quintet CD I've ever heard.

Absolutely amazing...

Center City Brass
Center City Brass Quintet
Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
General | Classical | Styles | Music
General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B00006JN9S
Release Date: 2002-10-22

Tracks:

Sir Malcolm Arnold/Quintet
Sir Malcolm Arnold/Quintet
Sir Malcolm Arnold/Quintet
Viktor Ewald/Quintet No. 1 in B flat minor
Viktor Ewald/Quintet No. 1 in B flat minor
Viktor Ewald/Quintet No. 1 in B flat minor
Eugene Bozza/Sonatine
Eugene Bozza/Sonatine
Eugene Bozza/Sonatine
Eugene Bozza/Sonatine
Ludwig Maurer/Three Pieces
Ludwig Maurer/Three Pieces
Ludwig Maurer/Three Pieces
Ingolf Dahl/Music for Brass Instruments
Ingolf Dahl/Music for Brass Instruments
Ingolf Dahl/Music for Brass Instruments
Morley Calvert/Suite from the Monteregian Hills
Morley Calvert/Suite from the Monteregian Hills
Morley Calvert/Suite from the Monteregian Hills
Morley Calvert/Suite from the Monteregian Hills

Album Description

This is the recording that put the Center City Brass Quintet on the map, now re-released on Chandos! (Originally "Brass Quintets"/Collins Classics 14892). Called "one of the all-time great brass quintet recordings" by the American Record Guide, it contains many of the most important, often-played works in the brass quintet repertoire - all in one album! A vital reference recording for brass players, and an amazing display of virtuosity that will delight all listeners.

Customer Reviews:

Straightforward Playing.......2007-03-27

First of all, this recording fills a badly needed void as there are very few recordings of the standard repertoire for brass quintet. Secondly, the playing is very good - what you would expect from top notch professional musicians. Lastly, and perhaps my only beef with the disc is with the interpretations that are given. They are very straightforward - lacking the risk taking and insight that would make this disc exceptional.

Nothing like it.......2006-05-02

I'm a professional trumpet player & educator. I've rehearsed & performed everything on this CD at least once, more likely three or four times. I've coached these tunes with student groups, and I've heard them in concerts. So I thought, "ho-hum, another brass quintet... ho-hum,another recording of the Ewald..." Then on the way to a gig my buddy insisted that I listen to the Center City Brass, and popped it in the dashboard. Within minutes, I was writhing on the floorboard, speaking in tongues. Every time I re-listen now, I am more and more astonished at the virtuosity and musicianship of these players. Their playing represents the most formidable sound and technique of the best-trained orchestral players in the world, and the polished phrasing of the ensemble playing is worthy of the world's finest string quartets. The playing is passionate too, ranging from uncompromisingly savage to heartbreakingly beautiful. And it's all captured in a sonically excellent recording. I'm requiring all my students to buy one!

Best brass quintet CD I've ever heard........2003-01-21

The playing here is extraordinarily fine, and all of the
music chosen for the disc is first-rate. The recording
quality is of demonstration class. Really gorgeous sound.
Astonishingly good control of intonation, articulation,
and dynamics.

If you can spare [the money], do not hesitate to purchase
this CD. It's a lesson in the art of brass playing. If
you've ever performed with a brass quintet as I have, you
will appreciate what Center City Brass Quintet has achieved
here. Wow!

Absolutely amazing..........2002-12-17

I almost fell out of my seat the first time I heard this album. The sound and quality the quintet puts out knocked my socks off. All of the music is extremely well-written and well-played, especially Dahl's Music for (six) Brass Instruments. The quintet is simply amazing. I definitely recommend this album for any brass-lovers.

Average customer rating:

A fine disc of beautiful music
Most Perfect Brass Quintet CD to date

Street Song

Manufacturer: D'note Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Quintets | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Center City Brass

ASIN: B000007NL1
Release Date: 1998-05-19

Tracks:

Fire Dance
Street Song
Four Outings For Brass: I. Moderato, with energy
Four Outings For Brass: II. Blues Tempo
Four Outings For Brass: III. Slowly
Four Outings For Brass: IV. Vivace
Colchester Fantasy: I. The Rose And Crown
Colchester Fantasy: II. The Marquis of Granby
Colchester Fantasy: III. The Dragon
Colchester Fantasy: IV. The Red Lion
Dance Ste: I. Dancisca, for Anthony
Dance Ste: II. Waltz, for Agnes
Dance Ste: III. Bi-Tango, for Mischa
Dance Ste: IV. Two-Step, for Mr. B
Dance Ste: V. MTV, for Jerry

Customer Reviews:

A fine disc of beautiful music.......1999-11-01

I agree this is a great disc but it is not perfect. All the players are exceptional performers. The repertoire is rarely recorded and very fresh. Eric Ewazen's Colchester Fantasy has become a standard in the repertoire for the idiom. This recording lacks the finesse the American Brass Quintet exudes in their reading on Summit Records. The Tilson Thomas Street Song is fabulous on this disc. The work has previously been recorded by the Empire Brass Quintet. The Previn is forgettable, and the Bernstein is rather insignificant. DiLorenzo's feature for the group, Fire Dance, is very exciting. It is deceptive in its dificulty(i.e. it isn't as hard as it sounds). The group is spectacular and the recording is great. The group does tend to get brilliant at times. That could be atested to the fact that they are all orchestral musicians. Aside from their orchestral sound, I have few complaints about the disc. I would highly suggest their previous disc simply entitiled - Brass Quintets.

Most Perfect Brass Quintet CD to date.......1998-11-17

The ensemble, sound, style and intonation of this fine group belie the fact that they live in other cities. Their harmonics stack up marvelously in the open 5th to end the first section of the MTT piece, one of an impressively strong set of selections. Having not been familiar with this group, I confess to having low expectations- that is until I heard the first cut, a tour-de-force by the quintet's first trumpeter, a fine composer. It now tops my large collection of brass music as perhaps the finest example of the genre put on disc to date. Having just completed a brass CD, I know how difficult the process is. These guys are truly terrific. -Michael Moore, Tuba and Artistic Dir., Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet President, Atlanta Brass Society, Inc.