Wind quintet
A wind quintet, also known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn and bassoon).
Unlike the string quartet (of 4 string instruments) with its homogeneous blend of sound color, the instruments in a wind quintet differ from each other considerably in technique, idiom, and timbre. The modern wind quintet sprang from the octet ensemble favored in the court of Joseph II in late 18th century Vienna: two oboes, two clarinets, two (natural) horns, and two bassoons.[1] The influence of Haydn's chamber writing suggested similar possibilities for winds, and advances in the building of these instruments in that period made them more useful in small ensemble settings, leading composers to attempt smaller combinations.
It was Anton Reicha's twenty-four quintets, begun in 1811, and the nine quintets of Franz Danzi that established the genre, and their pieces are still standards of the repertoire. Though the form fell out of favor in the latter half of the 19th century, there has been renewed interest in the form by leading composers in the 20th century, and today the wind quintet is a standard chamber ensemble, valued for its versatility and variety of tone color.
Sciarada Spagnuola [Spanish Charade] (1963)
Andriessen, Jurriaan
Three Shanties, op. 4 (1943)
Arnold, Malcolm
Skizzen, Highgate Press [Sketches, Highgate Press] (1983)
Bach, Jan
Quintetto sereno [Serene Quintet] (1957–58)
Baur, Jürg
Shadow and Light (1981)
Beaser, Robert
Concerto for Woodwind Quintet
Bennett, Richard R.
Berio, Luciano
Birtwistle, Harrison
Serenade (1966)
Bloch, Waldemar
Serenade, Theme and Variations
Blumer, Theodor
Bobescu, Constantin, Parafrază pe motivul "Horei Staccato" (1958)
Bois, Rob du
Diversions, for quintet, narrator and piano; text by James Thurber (1994)
Bottje, Will Gay
Bozza, Eugene
Bresnick, Martin
Suite for Woodwinds, (1982, revised 2006)
Brown, Stephen
Five Stars (2004)
Buss, Howard J.
Cambini, Giuseppe Maria
Carter, Elliott
Soli no. 2 (1961)
Chávez, Carlos
Three Movements for Five Winds (1967–68)
Cortés, Ramiro
Allegro and Arioso
Dahl, Ingolf
17 Variations op. 22, (1951)
Damase
Danzi, Franz
Belgian Bliss (2011)
Del Tredici, David
Blow (1989)
Franco Donatoni
Fantasia (1956)
Dubois, Pierre Max
Etler, Alvin
Farkas, Ferenc
Fine, Irving
Françaix, Jean
Friar, Sean
Ancient Evenings and Distant Music (1971)
Gallagher, Jack
Genzmer, Harald
Goeb, Roger
Goldmann, Friedrich
Hall, Pauline
Wind Quintet (1979)
Harbison, John
Heiden, Bernhard
Hidas, Frigyes
Diversions for Wind Quintet (1999)
Hoiby, Lee
Wind Quintet in A flat, op. 14 (1903)
Holst, Gustav
Trois Pièces Brèves [Three Short Pieces]
Ibert, Jacques
Jacob, Gordon
Kelemen, Milko
Quintet op. 79
Klughardt, August
Bläserquintett [Wind Quintet], for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon (1958–59)
Koenig, Gottfried Michael
Kwintet na instrumenty dęte [Wind Quintet] (1964)
Kotoński, Włodzimierz
Fúvósötös [Wind Quintet], op. 2 (1959)
Kurtág, György
Láng, István
Ligeti, György
Musica ricercata
Maslanka, David
Duvački kvintet [Wind Quintet] (1931)
Marić, Ljubica
Wind Quintet, op. 22 (1963)
Mathias, William
Quintette pour Flûte, Hautbois, Clarinette, Cor et Basson (1944)
Mortensen, Otto
Navok, Lior
Whirl's World (1970)
Nørgård, Per
circles mostly in wood, a wind quintet in quartertones (2002)
Oteri, Frank J.
Wind Quintet (2004)
Paterson, Robert
Patterson, Paul
Perle, George
Persichetti, Vincent
Metamorphosis (1967)
Peterson, Wayne
Milonga sin palabras [Milonga without words]
Piazzolla, Astor
Suite pittoresque [Picturesque Suite]
Pierné, Paul
Serenade in G Major
Pilss, Carl
Wind Quintet (1956)
Piston, Walter
Sextet, for wind quintet and piano (1932–39)
Poulenc
Pentaerophonia
Ránki, György
Reicha, Anton
Concerto, op. 53, for wind quintet and piano (1956)
Riegger, Wallingford
Rosowsky, Solomon
Improvisations and Symphonies, op. 11 (1960)
Schat, Peter
Schulze, Werner, Explosioni
Permutazioni a Cinque for wind quintet (1958)
Seiber, Mátyás
Solare, Juan María
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Zeitmaße
"Mozart Meandering through Java before Bumping into Beethoven in Boston" for piano & wind quintet, written for the winds of Boston Symphony Orchestra. He also wrote 5 individual pieces for each wind instrument with piano, based on Ovid's "Metamorphosis", written for those members of BSO
Sukarlan, Ananda
Six Minutes Thirty Seconds (1995)
Susman, William
Quintet for Wind Instruments
Taffanel, Paul
Wind Quintet (1966)
Tal, Josef
Sextet for Wind Instruments and Piano
Thuille, Ludwig
Cinq Danses [Five Dances]
Tomasi, Henri
Quinteto (em forma de chôros) [Quintet in the Form of a Chôros], for flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, and bassoon (1928; arr. for the conventional quintet 1951)
Villa-Lobos, Heitor
Wind (2013)
Weiser, Alex
Wind Quintet (1977)
Wuorinen, Charles
Geometricum (1993)
Yurina, Ludmila
Artecombo
Bergen Woodwind Quintet
Carion
Danzi Quintet
Dorian Wind Quintet
Farkas Quintet Amsterdam
(Grammy nominated 2006)
Imani Winds
LutosAir Quintet
New London Chamber Ensemble
New York Woodwind Quintet
Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin
Quintet of the Americas
Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet
Vancouver Woodwind Quintet
Vento Chiaro
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"Brandt's Woodwind Quintet List"
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