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Hosted by ANNAPOLIS BRASS QUINTET 1971-1993
20 October 2021
Hosted by ANNAPOLIS BRASS QUINTET 1971-1993
20 October 2021
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 2021 marks its 61st 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 world 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 three 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. Since March 12, 2020 we have been posting web pages with recordings of music for brass quintet alone, collaborative chamber works, and entire concert performances.
An extraordinary number of additional reel-to-reel, cassette tapes, and broadcast recordings of historic ABQ performances are being digitalized and will be shared with you through August 2021 via this website. Subsequently, all of these recordings will become an archival performance component of the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection at Oberlin.
Posting of ABQ Digital Recordings will continue to be posted on this site through August 2021. To access any or all past, present posted recording web pages go to the ABQ Audio Page Finale, ABQ Audio Page #3, ABQ Audio Page #2, 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 2021 marks its 61st 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 world 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 three 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. Since March 12, 2020 we have been posting web pages with recordings of music for brass quintet alone, collaborative chamber works, and entire concert performances.
An extraordinary number of additional reel-to-reel, cassette tapes, and broadcast recordings of historic ABQ performances are being digitalized and will be shared with you through August 2021 via this website. Subsequently, all of these recordings will become an archival performance component of the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection at Oberlin.
Posting of ABQ Digital Recordings will continue to be posted on this site through August 2021. To access any or all past, present posted recording web pages go to the ABQ Audio Page Finale, ABQ Audio Page #3, ABQ Audio Page #2, ABQ Audio Page #1.
DUTCH RADIO LIVE CONCERT
Annapolis Brass Quintet
12 October 1981
Four Centuries of Music for Brass Instruments
To listen tap Here
Posted 14 October 2021
BRASS ON BRASS ON BRASS
Featuring the
Brass Menagerie
Tower Brass Quintet
Annapolis Brass Quintet
To listen to this 1984 performance
tap Here
Posted 11 October 2021
1. Richard Drakeford's Tower Music
was composed in 1969
To listen to this 1974 performance
by the Annapolis Brass Quintet
To listen tap Here
Posted 11 October 2021
2. Jirí Laburda's Quintet for Brass
was composed in 1979 for the ABQ
To listen to the 1980 World Premiere
by the Annapolis Brass Quintet
tap Here
Posted 08 October 2021
SCOTT PENDER'S FRAGEMENTS
1992 world premiere
Columbia Pro Cantare
Annapolis Brass Quintet
To listen tap Here
Posted 07 October 2021
SCOTT PENDER'S SONGS from TEREZÍN
1991 World Premiere
Morgan State University Singers
Annapolis Brass Quintet
To listen tap Here
NORWEGIAN RADIO BROADCAST 1975
Annapolis Brass Quintet
Music by Speer, Cabus, Maves and Feld
To listen tap Here
Annapolis Brass Quintet
12 October 1981
Four Centuries of Music for Brass Instruments
To listen tap Here
Posted 14 October 2021
BRASS ON BRASS ON BRASS
Featuring the
Brass Menagerie
Tower Brass Quintet
Annapolis Brass Quintet
To listen to this 1984 performance
tap Here
Posted 11 October 2021
1. Richard Drakeford's Tower Music
was composed in 1969
To listen to this 1974 performance
by the Annapolis Brass Quintet
To listen tap Here
Posted 11 October 2021
2. Jirí Laburda's Quintet for Brass
was composed in 1979 for the ABQ
To listen to the 1980 World Premiere
by the Annapolis Brass Quintet
tap Here
Posted 08 October 2021
SCOTT PENDER'S FRAGEMENTS
1992 world premiere
Columbia Pro Cantare
Annapolis Brass Quintet
To listen tap Here
Posted 07 October 2021
SCOTT PENDER'S SONGS from TEREZÍN
1991 World Premiere
Morgan State University Singers
Annapolis Brass Quintet
To listen tap Here
NORWEGIAN RADIO BROADCAST 1975
Annapolis Brass Quintet
Music by Speer, Cabus, Maves and Feld
To listen tap Here
Thank you for your interest in brass chamber music.
Former members of the Annapolis Brass Quintet (1971 - 1993)
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Library Special Collections
Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library
Available for Performance & Research
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Former members of the Annapolis Brass Quintet (1971 - 1993)
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Library Special Collections
Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library
Available for Performance & Research
READ ALL ABOUT IT
For direct access to the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection at Oberlin Conservatory
Tap Here
FOSTERING BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC
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FOSTERING BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC
Robert Posten Memorial Tribute Page
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ROBERT "RIP" POSTEN
Bass Trombonist & Tubist
January 24, 1945 - June 10, 2020
Founding Member of the Annapolis Brass Quintet
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ROBERT "RIP" POSTEN
Bass Trombonist & Tubist
January 24, 1945 - June 10, 2020
Founding Member of the Annapolis Brass Quintet