WELCOME TO BRASS QUINTET FORUM
Welcome to Brass Quintet Forum.com, a website designed to foster brass chamber music. What you will find here is content focused mostly on the repertoire for brass quintet, especially music composed for chamber settings, and specifically works performed by or with the Annapolis Brass Quintet, which was founded in 1971 as America's first full-time performing brass ensemble.
Our quintet's founding was inspired by the New York Brass Quintet (founded in 1954), and the American Brass Quintet, (founded in 1960). These two extraordinary ensembles played critical roles in establishing the brass quintet as a respected chamber music medium. While New York collectively retired in 1984, the American Brass Quintet in 2020 is celebrating its 60th Anniversary as the 'high priests of brass'.
The Annapolis Brass Quintet performed its final concert on April 25, 1993. Over its twenty-two years the ABQ performed thousands of concerts on four continents and in all fifty states, recorded sixteen commercial albums, unearthed and performed a large body of early brass music, and premiered some seventy-five new works for brass quintet. The ABQ's final concert included the premiere of a work commissioned especially for the occasion -- an emphatic statement that our farewell performance was not an end, but rather just part of a collective continuum in the advancement of brass chamber music.
It then took us 15 years to find a perfect home where the ABQ's music library would be easily accessible to benefit present and future generations of brass players and scholars.
[ Read More - ABQ Library @ Oberlin Conservatory of Music ]
In the past two years we have come upon an ever-growing number of recordings of our ensemble's live concert and broadcast performances from as far back as 1973. From 12 March through 28 June 2020 we posted some 39 web pages with recordings of works for brass quintet alone, collaborative chamber works, and entire concert performances. If you wish to revisit any of these digital recording pages, please open this site's ABQ AUDIO PAGE #1.
Over this summer an extraordinary number of additional reel-to-reel, cassette tapes, and broadcast recordings of historic ABQ performances have been found, digitalized and will be shared with you over the coming months via this website. Subsequently all of these recordings will become an archival performance component of the Annapolis Brass Quintet Collection at Oberlin.
Posting of ABQ Digital Recordings Phase Two: Each Tuesday and Thursday from 27 October through 31 December 2020, Brass Quintet Forum. com will stream new non-commercial recordings of live and broadcast performances by the ABQ alone and in various expanded instrumental and vocal combinations. All Phase Two posted recordings will continue to be accessible to you at ABQ Audio Page #2, and all Phase One posted recordings will continue to be accessible to you at ABQ Audio Page #1.
Our quintet's founding was inspired by the New York Brass Quintet (founded in 1954), and the American Brass Quintet, (founded in 1960). These two extraordinary ensembles played critical roles in establishing the brass quintet as a respected chamber music medium. While New York collectively retired in 1984, the American Brass Quintet in 2020 is celebrating its 60th Anniversary as the 'high priests of brass'.
The Annapolis Brass Quintet performed its final concert on April 25, 1993. Over its twenty-two years the ABQ performed thousands of concerts on four continents and in all fifty states, recorded sixteen commercial albums, unearthed and performed a large body of early brass music, and premiered some seventy-five new works for brass quintet. The ABQ's final concert included the premiere of a work commissioned especially for the occasion -- an emphatic statement that our farewell performance was not an end, but rather just part of a collective continuum in the advancement of brass chamber music.
It then took us 15 years to find a perfect home where the ABQ's music library would be easily accessible to benefit present and future generations of brass players and scholars.
[ Read More - ABQ Library @ Oberlin Conservatory of Music ]
In the past two years we have come upon an ever-growing number of recordings of our ensemble's live concert and broadcast performances from as far back as 1973. From 12 March through 28 June 2020 we posted some 39 web pages with recordings of works for brass quintet alone, collaborative chamber works, and entire concert performances. If you wish to revisit any of these digital recording pages, please open this site's ABQ AUDIO PAGE #1.
Over this summer an extraordinary number of additional reel-to-reel, cassette tapes, and broadcast recordings of historic ABQ performances have been found, digitalized and will be shared with you over the coming months via this website. Subsequently all of these recordings will become an archival performance component of the Annapolis Brass Quintet Collection at Oberlin.
Posting of ABQ Digital Recordings Phase Two: Each Tuesday and Thursday from 27 October through 31 December 2020, Brass Quintet Forum. com will stream new non-commercial recordings of live and broadcast performances by the ABQ alone and in various expanded instrumental and vocal combinations. All Phase Two posted recordings will continue to be accessible to you at ABQ Audio Page #2, and all Phase One posted recordings will continue to be accessible to you at ABQ Audio Page #1.
Wednesday, 25, November 2020 Post
WE OFFER A VIRTUAL CONCERT FOR
THANKSGIVING DAY 2020
"Jesu, meine Freude" by J.S. Bach
"Medley" by Stephen Foster
"Thanksgiving Anthem" by William Billings
"America the Beautiful"
Western Wind Vocal Sextet & Annapolis Brass Quintet
To Listen Tap Here
WE OFFER A VIRTUAL CONCERT FOR
THANKSGIVING DAY 2020
"Jesu, meine Freude" by J.S. Bach
"Medley" by Stephen Foster
"Thanksgiving Anthem" by William Billings
"America the Beautiful"
Western Wind Vocal Sextet & Annapolis Brass Quintet
To Listen Tap Here
Thursday, 24 November 2020 Post
FEATURED COMPOSITION:
Jindrich Feld's Quintette (1972)
Recorded by Bavarian Radio
Munich, Germany 6 November 1975
To Listen Tap HERE
FEATURED COMPOSITION:
Jindrich Feld's Quintette (1972)
Recorded by Bavarian Radio
Munich, Germany 6 November 1975
To Listen Tap HERE
Thursday, 19 November 2020 Post
FEATURED COMPOSITION:
Eugene Zádor's Quintet for Brass
27 November 1978 performance recorded by Bavarian Radio
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FEATURED COMPOSITION:
Eugene Zádor's Quintet for Brass
27 November 1978 performance recorded by Bavarian Radio
To Listen Tap Here
Thank you for your interest in brass chamber music
Former members of the Annapolis Brass Quintet (1971 - 1993)
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Founding Member of the Annapolis Brass Quintet
ROBERT "RIP" POSTEN
Bass Trombonist & Tubist
January 24, 1945 - June 10, 2020
Robert Posten Memorial Tribute Page
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Former members of the Annapolis Brass Quintet (1971 - 1993)
____________________
Founding Member of the Annapolis Brass Quintet
ROBERT "RIP" POSTEN
Bass Trombonist & Tubist
January 24, 1945 - June 10, 2020
Robert Posten Memorial Tribute Page
Tap Here
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Library Special Collections
Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library
Available for Performance & Research
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FOSTERING BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC
Library Special Collections
Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library
Available for Performance & Research
READ ALL ABOUT IT
FOSTERING BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC
For direct access to the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection at Oberlin Conservatory
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