Woodwind Quintet Blog

Eastman's Arabesque Winds performing Hindemith and Bozza at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage's Conservatory Project.

Rameau, Milhaud, Strauss and more from the Cedar Rapids Symphony Wind Quintet.  "The quintet's performance of Hallam's Dance Suite was the highlight of the evening."

The BYU Orpheus Winds in concert, with the world premiere of Laurence Lowe’s Reflection for Wind Quintet.

Klughardt, Berio, Piazzolla, and Verdi to be performed by the Antero Winds at Carleton College.

Peter Schickele on his new wind quintet A Year in the Catskills: "The composer describes his new quintet as highly varied, ranging from pastoral fantasy to lament to fast jazz."

The Calico Winds "artfully reinventing the conventional wind quintet."

The Aloha Woodwind Quintet in performance at the Hawaii State Library.  Repertoire includes Reicha and a transcription of Mozart's 40th.

An archive of Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet recordings, most are available as downloadable mp3 files.

From the New York Times, Vivien Schweitzer's review of a May 2008 Sylvan Winds performance.  Their program included Barber's Summer Music, Mozart's Quintet for piano and winds, and Samuel Baron's transcription of Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 1.

I have just completed a new edition of Grainger's Walking Tune for "wind five-some".

From Grainger himself:

This piece is based on a little tune I made on a 3 days' walk in the Scottish Highlands (in 1900) as a hummed accompaniment to my tramping feet. It was worked out and scored in 1905.

From the LA Times, a review of William Kraft's new "Encounters XIII" for wind quintet and percussion:

The new "Encounters XIII" is for wind quintet and percussion. In a discussion before the premiere, Kraft and Jeff von der Schmidt, who conducted, agreed on their dislike of the sound of combined flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon. But that is what percussionist Ken McGrath, who commissioned the score, wanted. And given that McGrath saved up for 20 years to be able to afford the commission, a wind quintet is what he got.

The Portland Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet performs Peter and the Wolf.