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ABQ AUDIO PAGE #1
 featured digital recordings to be posted weekly
PHASE ONE:  ​12 March --25 June 2020

FINAL POST OF PHASE ONE
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America's First Full Time Performing Brass Chamber Ensemble  
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1971 -1993
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For Annapolis Brass Quintet Discography Page click here 
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 Digital archival recordings of performances
PHASE ONE:  ​12 March --25 June 2020
Final Post: # 37, 36, 35, 34 Posted 25 June 2020
 ABQ Digital Recordings Phase One: 12 March - 25 June 2020
 25 JUNE 2020 POST:
Brass Chamber Music by Douglas Allanbrook
written for the Annapolis Brass Quintet
1. Invitation to the Sideshow 
2. Night and Morning Music
3. Commencement Exercises   34.. Seven for Seven

To Visit DOUGLAS ALLANBROOK Page Click Here

Music by Elam Sprenkle: #30, #31, #32, #33.
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To visit the Elam Sprenkle page  click here
To listen to these four works tap audio bars below:
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#33 "An Aubade" (1988) by Elam Sprenkle

​Brass Chamber Music composed for the 20th International Assembly of Astrophysicists:  Baltimore, Maryland - 1988
Live concert - February 28, 1993 - 2nd Presbyterian Church, Baltimore 
Annapolis Brass Quintet -  Recorded by WBJC - FM

 #32 "Three Sketches on a Southern Hymn Tune" (1981) by Elam Sprenkle
1.  Allegro   2.  Andante   3.  Pasacalle 
  November 15, 1986 performance at Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland by Annapolis Brass Quintet


# 31 "Sister Anne" (1988) by Elam Sprenkle​
Brass Chamber Music Society of Annapolis  Artists Series Concert - October 15, 1989
Western Wind Vocal Ensemble & Annapolis Brass Quintet

#30 "Diversions on a Repeated Sequence" (1991) by Elam Sprenkle
Brass Chamber Music composed for the 8th International Congress of Human Genetics: Washington, DC - 1991 ​
Diversions on a Repeated Sequence by Elam Sprenkle - BCMSA 1992 Performance by  Annapolis Brass Quin​txt


# 29 "Music for Brass" (1975) by George T. Walker

1.  Invokation   2.  Dance I 3.  Chorale    4.  Dance II
1982 Concert by the Annapolis Brass Quintet at University of California, Davis.

To visit the George Walker page  click here
# 28 "Combinazioni V" (1982) by Robert Hall Lewis
Composed for the Annapolis Brass Quintet, this ABQ November 15, 1986 performance was at Goucher College.
To visit the Robert Hall Lewis page 
click here

#27 "Brass Quintet" (1983) by Gregory Pascuzzi
Composed in 1982-83 for the Pittsburgh Brass Quintet, this 1992 ABQ performance was broadcast by WBJC-FM 
To visit the Pascuzzi page 
 click here
 #26 "Parodie I" (1974) by Stanley Friedman
 PARODY I was written in 1974 and won the New Louisville Brass Quintet composition prize that year.  This work is based on source material from a 16th c. motet by Jacobus de Kerle.  To visit the Friedman page click here

#25 "Prelude, Choral & Fugue" by Roger Boutry
ABQ 1976 performances for broadcast by Austrian Broadcasting Corporation. Vienna
To visit the Boutry page 
click here
#24  "Four Frescoes" (1967) by W. Francis McBeth
ABQ 1976 Performances for broadcast by Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Vienna
To visit the McBeth page
click here

BRASS UNDER GLASS #23-a-b-c-d:  Selected works from April 5, 1992 "Great Music in Great Spaces" concert by ABQ, Philadelphia Brass and Tower Brass Quintet.  To visit the BRASS UNDER BRASS page click here
#23-a "Fanfare for the Anasazi" (1981) by Michael Mauldin
#23-b  "Quindecilogues" (1984) by Bruce Clausen
#23-c "Nimrod" by Edward Elgar 
#23-d German Antiphonal Music
​"Nuptial Factae Sunt" (1591) by Hans Leo Hassler 
"Gesang der Drei Männer"
(1652) by Heinrich Schütz

#22 Music by David W. Maves
"Brass Quintet" by David Maves - 1974 ABQ Composition Contest Prize Winning Work
​To visit the IBQForum David Maves page click here

#21 Music by Robert Lichtenberger
​"Partita #2" by Robert Lichtenberger was written for the ABQ in 1982.
To visit the IBQForum Robert Lichtenberger page click here
 #20 Music by Errol Schlabach 
"Quintet for Sunshine" by Errol Schlabach was written for the ABQ in 1974.
To visit the BQForum Errol Schlabach page click here

The following five pieces were  part the BYRD & BRASS Reprise 2000 Charlie Byrd Memorial Concert.  
To visit the BQForum BYRD & BRASS Reprise page chick here

​#19-a "Canzona Bergamasca" (1621) by Samuel Scheidt
#19-b "Moonlight In Vermont" by Karl Suessdorf;  John Blackburn
#19-c "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" by J.B. Calvin; H.W. Longfellow
# 19-d "The Christmas Song" by Robert Wills; Mel Tormé
# 19-e  "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" by Hugh Martin
  To visit the BQForum BYRD & BRASS Reprise page chick here
A recording of the entire memorial concert will be posted in December 2020 to mark the
​20th anniversary of this December 17, 2000 performance.

#18 BYRD & BRASS CONCERT--Live NPR Broadcast
 January 11, 1987 Reston, Virginia Concert--NPR American Jazz Radio Festival
To visit BQForum Byrd & Brass Live NPR page click here
[ recording: 52 minutes ]

17. "Byrd & Brass" (1984) by C. Warren Kellerhouse
World Premier Performance - BCMSA April 28, 1985 ABQ--Charlie Byrd Trio Concert
To visit BQForum Premiere Byrd & Brass page click here

16. Six Spanish Renaissance Dances
Set for Guitar and Brass for Guitarist Charlie Byrd & ABQ
To visit BQForum BYRD & BRASS page click here

15. "Salutations" (1965) by Jack End 
To visit BQForum BYRD & BRASS page​ click here
14. "Divertimenti" (1970) by  Frédéric Devreese
ABQ's Belgian Radio Recording Session - SYMPHONIC BRASS CD
To visit BQForum Frédéric Devreese page 
click here
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13. "Homage to James Ensor" (1980) by Frédéric Devreese
Live Annapolis Brass Quintet performance
To visit BQForum Frédéric Devreese page click here
 June 3, 1982, Inaugural Season of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival 


12. "ABQ Encore" (1991) by Tom Alonso
Live ABQ & synthesizer + prerecorded 12 brass, percussion 

To visit BQForum Tom Alonso page ​click here
October 20, 1991, BCMSA Artists Series Concert World Premiere of "ABQ Encore" 
TWO WORLD PREMIERES (1991) by Tom Alonso  
11. "Full Circle" (1991) by Tom Alonso
ABQ - TOM ALONSO, synthesizers + electronic components 
To visit BQForum Tom Alonso page click here
October 20, 1991- BCMSA Artists Series Concert World Premiere of "Full Circle" by ABQ & Alonso

10. "Three Choral Fanfares" (1983) by Wilfried Westerlinck
To visit BQForum Wilfred Westerlinck page click here
​ABQ's Belgian Radio Recording - Music of Westerlinck Libra CD

9. "Flight" (1980) for brass quintet by Lawrence Moss
To visit BQForum "Flight" by Lawrence Moss page click here

(A)1982 Live ABQ Concert Performance - University of California, Davis 
​(B)  1983 ABQ Washington, DC - AmCam Recording ​

8. "Symphonies" (1977)  by Lawrence Moss
for brass quintet & chamber orchestra
To visit BQForum "Symphonies" by Lawrence Moss page click here
Annapolis Brass Quintet & American Camerata for New Music John Stephens, Conducting
 Symphonies was recorded in the National Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. in September 1978

7. "Sextet" (1965) for brass quintet & percussion by Elie Siegmeister
To visit BQForum Siegmeister Percussive Brass page click here
Live Performance ABQ and percussionist Barry Dove  
February 23, 1992 - BCMSA Artist Series - Pascal Center for the Performing Arts

6. Farewell Concert (1993) as Performed  
To visit BQForum "Farewell Concert" full concert page  click here
Live ABQ Farewell Concert - Full Concert
25 April 1993 - Key Auditorium, St. Johns College, Annapolis, Maryland

5. ABQ Farewell Concert (1993) Selected Works 
To listen to selected works from "Farewell Concert" click here
25 April 1993 - ABQ Farewell Concert - St. Johns College, Annapolis, Maryland

4. "Annapolis Suite" (1982) for brass quintet & harp
To visit "Annapolis Suite" BQForum page click here  
Live  March 23, 1983 - World Premiere Performance
ABQ and harpist Heidi Lehwalder - Washington's Kennedy Center Terrace 
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3. "Evanescence" (1980) for brass quintet
To visit BQForum "Evanescence" page click here  
Live Performance  June 3, 1982 - Inaugural Season of Rockport Chamber Music Festival

 2. "Interlude" from "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1993) by Elam Sprenkle
To visit BQForum "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" page click here  
Live Performance ABQ Farewell Concert April 25, 1993 - Key Auditorium St. John's College,  Annapolis, MD

​1. ​"Anniversary Fanfare" (1991) by Keith Snell
   To visit BQForum "Anniversary Fanfare" page click here
Live Performance ABQ Farewell Concert April 25, 1993 - Key Auditorium St. John's College, Annapolis, MD ​

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