Brandt’s Woodwind Quintet List – R
- Jean-Philippe Rameau
- Elizabeth Raum
- Maurice Ravel
- Mordechai Rechtman
- **Anton Reicha**
- Ottorino Respighi
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- George Rochberg
- Walter Ross
- Terje Rypdal–bottom of page
Raaff, Robin de (1968- )
Aerea (1998-2000)
Amsterdam: Donemus, 2002
Flute doubles on piccolo and alto?; oboe doubles English horn;
clarinet doubles on E-flat clarinet. Duration: 11:00. Commissioned by the Fodor Quintet. See also: http://www.robinderaaff.com/
Råberg, Bruno(1954- )
Fantasy for Woodwind Quintet (2019)
Contact the composer, http://www.brunoraberg.com/
Movements: Scene I – The Meadow; Scene II – The Search; Scene III – The Meeting; Scene IV – The Chase; Scene V – The Return. Duration: 10:10. Audio of the score is online at https://brunoraberg.bandcamp.com/album/fantasy-for-woodwind-quintet-3 and available for purchase, recorded by the Oak Street Woodwinds of Boston.
Bruno Råberg is both a composer and jazz bassist. According to the Råberg’s website: “His Fantasy for Woodwind Quintet employs almost cinematic narrative techniques, using different ‘scenes’ to depict a love story: ‘Our hero sets out on a journey,” explains Råberg, “finds romance and returns having been changed.’”
Rabinowitz, Danielle Galler(1991- )
Rouen Cathedral Snapshots (2015)
Duration: 6:00. See also the composer’s website: https://www.dangalrab.com/ .
Capote (2013)
Contact the composer, https://www.dangalrab.com/
Duration: 4:45. Recording available on SoundCloud, https://soundcloud.com/necmusic/danielle-galler-rabinowitz .
Woodwind Quintet (2009)
Rachmaninoff, Sergei (1873-1943)
arrangements
Little Red Riding Hood [and the Wolf](arr. John Gibson)
JB Linear; see also: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
From Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 39, No. 6 for piano, composed 1916-1917. Original piano score may be downloaded from the International Music Score Library Project website at http://imslp.org/wiki/Etudes-tableaux,_Op.39_(Rachmaninoff,_Sergei) .
Although the title is “Little Red Riding Hood,” the threatening tone of the original piano work sounds more like the Wolf than the girl. [Andrew Brandt]
Prelude in E-flat, Op. 23, No. 6 (arr. Gunther Schuller)
Newton Centre, Mass.: Margun Music, 1981
Vocalise (horn feature) (arr. Bill Holcombe)
Trenton, NJ: Musicians Publications /
Chesapeake, VA: Bill Holcombe’s Musicians Pub’s (http://billholcombe.com/)
Vocalise (oboe feature) (arr. Bill Holcombe)
Trenton, NJ: Musicians Publications /
Chesapeake, VA: Bill Holcombe’s Musicians Pub’s (http://billholcombe.com/)
Yes, both Bill Holcombe Vocalise arrangements are the same but for different solo instruments.
For more Rachmaninoff arrangements, see also the Margun collection “Woodwind Quintet Transcriptions,” listed under Gunther Schuller. See, also, the Russian Rag under George Cobb, and Homage to Rachmaninov by Stephen M. Raskin.
Vocalise (arr. Andrey Rubtsov)
See the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet’s commerce page at https://vk.com/smartmusicshop
Rackley, Lawrence (also known as Lawrence Rackley Smith) (1932- )
Two Madrigals and a Jig
Brooklyn, New York: Composers Press
also:
Prologue and Ceremonial Dance for woodwind quintet and choir
American composer based in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Rada, Jan (1939- )
Suite for Wind Quintet (1974)
Hudebni Informacni Stredisko http://www.musicbase.cz/
Radica, Ruben (1931- )
Per se II (1975)
Croatian composer. Principal publisher is Hrvatska drustvo skladatelja.
Radulescu, Michael (1943- )
Bläserquintett (1967)
Vienna: Ludwig Doblinger Verlag, 1970
Flute doubles piccolo in final movement. Duration: 13:00. See also: http://members.inode.at/mi.radulescu/
Uses serial techniques with tight rhythmic integration. See description in Arthur Cohn, “The Literature of Chamber Music.”
Radzynski, Jan (1950- )
Serenade (1991)
Tel Aviv: Israel Music Institute
Duration: 15:00. Polish-born Israeli-American composer.
Rae, Allan (1942- )
Impressions (1971)
Toronto: Canadian Music Centre
Duration: 12:00. Movements: 1. Apprehension; 2. Assurance; 3. Compassion; 4. Happiness.
Rae, James(1957- )
Cinerama
Buckingham: Queens Temple, QT116
Movements: 1. Organ Interlude; 2. Newsreel. “Cinerama” is also available in versions for 4 saxophones or 4 clarinets.
Raff, Joachim (1822-1882)
Sinfonietta F Major, Op. 188 (1873-74) for double woodwind quintet
Leipzig: F. Kistner, ca. 1870. /
score available as Eulenburg No. 10127
Edwin F. Kalmus
4 movements: 1. Allegro; 2. Allegretto molto; 3. Larghetto; 4. Vivace. Duration: 25:30. Recorded on Tudor CD 787 by the Radiosinfonie Orchestre Basel, Jojo.
Raffaseder, Hannes (1970- )
alles was RECHT ist (1998)
Duration: 11:00. See also: http://www.raffaseder.com
Rago, Alexis (1930-2009)
Mitica de Sueños y Cosmogonias (Myth of Dreams and Cosmogonies) (1968)
Venezuelan composer. Commissioned by the Executive Committee of
the Inter-American Music Festival of Washington, DC. Premiered at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC in 1968. Duration: 12:00. Movements: Amavalica; Animales Totemicos; La Venus de Tacarigua; Mares & Constelaciones; Petroglifos. Composer was a founder and director of the Maracay Conservatoire in Venezuela, not to be confused with the sculptor of the same name.
Ragwitz, Erhard (1933- )
Musik für fünf Blaeser, Op. 32
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Haertel, 1977
Includes alternate 2nd clarinet part which may be used in place of horn.
Rahbee, David
Free Fantasia on Themes of [Carl] Nielsen, Op. 41 in one movement
Belmont, MA: D. Rahbee, 1995
Raigorodsky, Natalia (Leda Natalia Heimsath, Mrs. Harter)
Introduction, Reflection, and Allegro (1963, 1967)
U.S. composer.
Raimund, Ferdinand (1790-1836)
Ferdinand Raimund for Woodwind Quintet (arr. Wolfgang Pillinger)
Wien: Doblinger
4 Couplets aus “Der Verschwender”, “Alpenkönig und Menschenfeind” und “Der Bauer als Millionär”. Ferdinand Raimund was a popular Austrian actor and dramatist. It’s unclear whether the music is a collection of songs he wrote or if is an homage to the actor using verse that he wrote.
Rainier, Priaulx (1903-1986)
Six Pieces for Five Wind Instruments (1954 or 1957)
London: Schott,
New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1963
She was a South African-born composer of English descent. Duration: 18:00.
Raitio, Pentti (1930- )
Quintetto (1975/1977)
Helsinki: Finnish Music Information Centre
Duration: 17:00. First performed by the Helsinki Quintet in 1976.
Rajter, Ľudovit (1906-2000)
Wind Quintett No. 1 (1940)
Bratislava: Hudobny fond
Movements: Allegro moderato; Adagio; Allegro molto; Finale – Allegro. Duration: 8:30. (Quintet No. 2 and a couple of other quintets are for brass, not woodwind quintet.) See also: http://hc.sk/en/hudba/osobnost-detail/25-ludovit-rajter
See Rajter’s sextet for piano and winds.
Rakijaš (or Rakujas), Branko (1911-1986)
Sumom draganom: ii duhacki kvintet
Zagreb: Drustvo Hrvatskih Skladatelja, Association of Croatian Composers, 1971
Ramans, Gedert (or Raman or Ramanis, Gedert Gedertovitsch) (1927-1999)
Suita dlia kvinteta dukhovykh instrumentov
Moskva: Sovetskii Kompozitor, 1961
Rameau, Jean-Philippe (1683-1764)
arrangements
Acante et Cephise, Airs de ballet (1751) (arr. Roger Desormiere)
Paris: Alphonse Leduc, 1945
Airs de Ballet (arr. Roger Desormiere)
New York: McGinnis & Marx
“Concert à Cinq” from Pièces de Clavecin (ca. 1728) (arr. ?)
Paris: G. Billaudot, 1991
Originally for keyboard. Duration: 10:30. Movements: La poule; Menuet N 1 [G major]; Menuet N 2 [G minor]; Gracieusement [i.e., L’enharmonique]; L’egyptienne.
Dance Suite (arr. Clark McAlister) for double woodwind quintet, 1989
Boca Raton, Florida: Edwin F. Kalmus, 1991
1 flute doubles on piccolo. Movements: 1. Entrée (Platée); 2. Air 1 et 2 (Platée); 3. Tambourin 1 et 2 (Les fêtes d’Hébé, 1re suite); 4. Marche (Les Indes galantes, 1re suite); 5. Tambourin 1 et 2 (Les Indes galantes, 2me suite).
Gavotte with Six Doubles (arr. Ryohei Nakagawa)
New York: Associated Music 1969 /
New York: G. Schirmer
From Pièces de Clavecin, 2. livre. “Gavotte”.
Gavotte en Rondeau (arr. ?)
New York: Associated Music Publishers
“L’agaçante” and “L’Indiscrète” (“The Provoking Girl” and “The Indiscreet Girl”) (arr. Ryohei Nakagawa)
New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1967 /
Paris: Alphonse Leduc
Both works are part of Rameau’s “Pièces de clavecin en concerts,” published in 1741.
If I had to choose, I’d get Nakagawa’s arrangement of Suite in G Minor (below) instead. [Andrew Brandt]
La Poule (arr. Henry Sarlit)
Paris: Editions H. Selmer, 1939
From: Pièces de clavecin (ca. 1728).
La Poule (arr. Bram Wiggens)
Rigaudon from Pièces de Clavecin, 1724 (arr. Ronald C. Dishinger)
St. Cloud, MN: Medici Music Press, 1981
Suite Champêtre (Rural Suite) (arr. James Cohn)
Based on five of Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin. Movements: Les tourbillons (The whirlwinds); La follette (The scatterbrain); Les tendres plaintes (The tender pleas); Les niais de Sologne (The halfwits of Sologne); La joyeuse (The merry one). Copy found in the Samuel Baron Collection of the Juilliard School Lila Acheson Wallace Library.
Suite in G Minor (arr. Ryohei Nakagawa)
Tokyo: Ongaku No Tomo Sha Corp.,1978 /
Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser Co.
Arrangements of some famous Rameau harpsichord pieces.
Our quintet used “La Poule” extensively in school concerts, an arrangement of one of the same pieces that Respighi used in Gli uccelli (The Birds). (Nakagawa is a noted Japanese bassoonist and educator who spent some time in the U.S.) [ Andrew Brandt ]
Symphonies et Danses (arr. Fernand Oubradous)
Paris: A. Leduc, 1954
Movements: Air polonais; Ritournelle; Air vif; Adoration du soleil; Menuet; Chaconne.
Tambourin from Pièces de clavecin (1724) (arr. Lee M. Lockhart)
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1932
Ramirez, David E.
Woodwind Quintet (1951)
Thesis (M.A.)—New Mexico Highlands University, 1951.
Ramírez, Ulises(1962- )
Cinco Escenas Breves (1999)
In the repertoire of the Quinteto de Alientos de la Ciudad de México (Mexico City Woodwind Quintet). Not to be confused with the politician Ulises Ramirez.
Rammaert, Alove (1915-2006)
Quintette pour la Paix sur la Terre des Hommes (1967)
Bruxelles: Le Centre Belge de Documentation Musicale (CeBeDeM)
Duration: 10:00.
Ramovs, Primoz (1921-1999)
Pihalni kvintet (Woodwind Quintet) (1959)
Ljubljana: Edicije Drustva slovenskih skladateljev, 1980
Society of Slovene Composers, www.dss.si
Duration: 10:00.
Odgovori, (Answers) (1974)
Ljubljana [Slovenia]: Drustvo slovenskih skaldateljev /
Koln: Hans Gerig, 1978 /
Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel
Performance instructions in Slovenian and English.
Pihalni kwintet #2
also:
Septet for woodwind quintet, trumpet and trombone
Published by the composer, Ljubjana, 1996
Ramsey, Gordon B. ( -1993???)
Mirror and Bagatelle (1967)
American Music Center /
New York: American Composers Alliance
Ran, Shulamit (1949- )
Concerta da Camera I (1985)
Tel Aviv: Israel Music Institute, https://www.imi.org.il/
Flute doubles on alto and piccolo, oboe doubles on English horn, clarinet doubles on bass clarinet, bassoon doubles on contrabassoon. Israeli-born American woman composer. Some older resources list her birth year as 1947. Duration: 12:00.
See also Ran’s Double Vision for woodwind and brass quintets and piano.
Randerson, Horace Edward (1892- ?)
Quintet
Paris: Durand & Cie.
Randerson is a little-known British composer almost entirely ignored on the internet.
Ranieri, Salvador (1930-2012)
Ricercare No. 1
also:
Secuencias de Fervor (1973) for voice and woodwind quintet
See also Ranieri’s works for winds and piano.
Ránki, György (1907-1992)
Pentaerophonia, Three Pieces for Woodwind Quintet (1958)
London: Boosey & Hawkes /
Budapest: Zenemukiado Vallalat, 1960
Hungarian composer. Duration: 12:00. Flute doubles piccolo.
Wind Quintet (1987)
also:
Burlesque (1958) for flute/piccolo, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, trumpet and trombone.
Rankine, Peter (1960- )
Eulogy (1987)
Australian Music Centre, http://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/
Flute doubles on piccolo.
Ranta, Sulho V. J. (1901-1960)
Quintet
Finnish composer.
Rapf, Kurt (1922-2007)
6 Stücke für Bläserquintett (1963)
Wien: Verlag Doblinger, 1974
Austrian composer. Duration: 9:00.
Encore (1976)
Wien: Doblinger
Duration: 2:00. See also collection listing under SCHULZE, WERNER.
Quintet for Harp and Four Wind Instruments (1968) for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and harp
manuscript
Duration: 17:00.
Raphael, Gunter A. R. (1903-1960)
Quartet (1945), Op. 61
Listed in Baker’s and elsewhere as a quintet, listed in The New Grove’s as a quartet. According to the composer’s website, http://www.guenter-raphael.de/, it is a quartet for flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon.
Raphling, Sam (1910-1988)
Three Dots and a Dash, four pieces for woodwind quintet
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.: General Music Pub. Co., 1976
The Windy Five, for woodwind quintet and narrator.
The hornist also does narration for the work. The score is in the collection of Sam Raphling works in the music library of Northwestern University. Contact them for availability. Another copy found in the Samuel Baron Collection of the Juilliard School Lila Acheson Wallace Library.
Rapoport, Eda Ferdinand (1890-1968)
Indian Legend
New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1949
Latvian-born American composer. Alternate listing for birth is 1886.
Rasch, Ingrid (1926-1995)
Stycke for blasarkvintett, Op.21 (1988)
Stockholm: Svensk Musik
Rasgado, Víctor(1959- )
Axolote (1988)
Duration: 10:00. In the repertoire of the Quinteto de Alientos de la Ciudad de México (Mexico City Woodwind Quintet). See also: www.rasgadovictor.com/
Teocuitlacoztic (1996) for woodwind quintet and voice (Tenor or Soprano)
A recording by the Quinteto de Alientos de la Ciudad de México (Mexico City Woodwind Quintet) is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QCCCL8h98H8
Rashanis, F.
Suite
Moscow: Muzyka, 1961
Raskin, David (1912-2004)
Laura
Apparently a quintet arrangement from his 1944 movie score Laura, most likely the song recorded by Johnny Mercer. (See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTVVqUT_pDw)
Raskin, Stephen M. (1947- )
Homage to Rachmaninov (1997)
Available from the composer (SMR Music), 818 Woodhill Ct., Palm Harbor, FL 34683 USA.
Duration: 14:30. Movements: Virtuosity; Solo; Tutti; Passion.
Rasmussen, Karl Aage (1947- )
Ballo In Maschera (Masked Ball) (1981)
Copenhagen: Wilhelm Hansen
Duration: 8:00. Brief description in Arthur Cohn, “The Literature of Chamber Music”; he calls it “bracing” and “breathless.”. Recorded by the Visby Blåsere (wind quintet), 1990 on Stockholm, Sweden’ Proprius label.
Rasmussen, Peter (1838-1913)
Quintet in F (1896)
Edition Compusic, 1992
4 movements: Lento – Allegro moderato; Andante cantabile (B-flat major); Menuet. All[egr]o con moto; Finale. Allegro con brio. PDF of the manuscript score may be downloaded from the International Music Score Library Project: http://imslp.org/wiki/Wind_Quintet_(Rasmussen,_Peter) .
Rasmussen, Sunlief (1961- )
Cantus Borealis (1995)
Copenhagen: Edition Wilhelm Hansen, 2013
Faroese (Danish) composer. Duration: 10:30. The online Wilhelm Hansen catalog inconsistently says this woodwind quintet uses French horn or English horn. The sample parts do show a French horn part, so it appears it is for normal woodwind quintet.
Motion / Emotion
Copenhagen: Edition Wilhelm Hansen
Commissioned by John Storgards and The Chamber Orchestra of Lapland
See Rasmussen’s Vetrarmyndir for quintet and piano.
Rathaus, Karol (1895-1954)
Gallant Serenade (1947)
Boosey & Hawkes, 1949
Polish-born American composer (via Berlin, Paris and London).
Divertimento, Op. 73 for double woodwind quintet
New York: Independent Music Publishers, 1955
Rathbun, ?
In the Cross of Christ, I Glory
Nashville: Integra Music (out of business?)
Possibly Jeffrey Rathbun, next.
Rathbun, Jeffrey (1959- )
Phases for woodwind quintet (2007)
King Of Prussia: Theodore Presser, 2013.
In 5 movements or “phases.” Duration: 17:00. Currently, the work is available on YouTube, starting with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hEsBpKM-TA .
According to notes: “The work is divided into five movements, or ‘phases’. Much of Phase 1 is jazzy and polytonal – its counterpart is the fourth movement, Phase 1a, which utilizes the same themes and harmonies, but is slow and romantic. Phase 2 is a gentle intermezzo, while the final movement, Phase 2a, is very fast and energetic, both movements representing different phases of the same material. The middle movement, Phase 3, stands by itself as a noisy and aggressive pantonal fanfare….”
Ratiu, Adrian (1928-2005)
Partita pentru cvintet de suflatori (Partita for Wind Quintet) (1966)
Bucuresti: Editura Muzicala a Uniunii Compozitorilor, 1973
Duration: 13:20.
Ratliff, Herschell E.
An Original Composition for Woodwind Quintet, (1958)
Thesis (M.A.)—San Jose State College, 1958.
Ratzkowski, Torsten (1954- )
Titanic for woodwind quintet
Estonia & Germany: edition 49 Bühnen und Musikverlag
Rattenbach, Augusto Benjamin (1927- )
Quinteto para Instrumentos de Viento (1957)
Duration: 20:00. Argentinian composer.
Raum, Elizabeth (1945- )
Suite for Woodwind Quintet (1982)
Toronto: Canadian Music Center
Duration: 6:00. Movements: Pastoral; Waltz; Theme and Variations.
Canterbury Ayre (1990)
Knowle, West Midlands: Virgo, 1990
See also: Toronto: Canadian Music Center
Written for young quintets. Also exists as the first movement of the composer’s work “Suite for Woodwind Quintet.”
The Orphic Thread (1984) for woodwind quintet and mezzo-soprano
Toronto: Canadian Music Centre
English language poetry by John V. Hicks. Duration: 25:00. Movements: 1. Girl playing scales; 2. Bassoons; 3. Girl with a flute; 4. Souvenir for Strings: April; 5. Music for the flute; 6. Serenata; 7. Clarinet; 8. Dancing; 9. My song (during Mahler).
King Lear Fantasy (1987) for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and either horn or trombone
Toronto: Canadian Music Centre
Based on incidental music written for the Globe Theatre for a production of King Lear. Movements: 1. King Lear’s Fanfare; 2. The Fool’s Song; 3. Regan and Goneril; 4. Cordelia’s Dream.. There are two sets of the music, one for ensemble with trombone, another for ensemble with horn.
See Raum’s Sextet for woodwind quintet and piano.
Rausch, Carlos(1924- )
Music for Ten Instruments (2011) for woodwind quintet and string quintet (2 violins, viola, cello, and double bass)
Duration: 13:00.
Ravel, Maurice (1875-1937)
arrangements
Le Tombeau de Couperin (piano version, 1914-1917, orchestra version, 1919) (arr. Mason Jones)
Paris: Durand, 1970 (USA: Theodore Presser)
Excellent arrangement of 4 of the 6 original piano pieces, done by the former principal horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Second movement is the “Fugue” omitted from the orchestra version. Others will be familiar to orchestra musicians and audiences. Oboe part to the Prelude is great for practicing for auditions. I think its one of the finest arrangements ever made for woodwind quintet. We’ve done the entire work for formal recitals and excerpts for educational concerts. Pairs well with the Debussy Suite No. 2 (arranged by Gordon Davies), see Claude Debussy. [Andrew Brandt]
Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Hans Abrahamsen)
Copenhagen: Wilhelm Hansen, 1989. Duration 17:00.
Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Gunther Schuller)
Newton Centre, Mass.: Margun Music, 1995
Duration: 24:00.
Includes all six of the original piano pieces. Schuller reportedly keeps faithful to the Ravel orchestration when possible. The work was arranged in the mid-1940s for the Metropolitan Wind Quintet, but not published until the 1990s. This arrangement reportedly has more doubling of the parts and is more technically difficult than the Mason Jones arrangement. [Andrew Brandt]
Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. David Walter)
Available from the arranger.
Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Wolfgang Renz)
Duration: 22:00. Website / Contact Wolfgang Renz: http://wolfgang-renz-notendruck.de/ . Herr Renz also has a version for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello and double bass.
Le Tombeau de Couperin arranged for woodwind quintet and harp
I only know of this work from a recording of the first movement available on Zephyros Winds’ website. No mention is made of the arranger or of which other movements are available. From a quick listening, it appears that the harp part is taken largely from the orchestra version. (I would have like to have seen it expanded for more interplay with the ensemble.)
À la manière de Borodine (2020)(arr. Davidson, Matthew de Lacey)
New York: American Composeers Alliance, https://composers.com/
Duration: 2:00. Based on a 1913 work for solo piano by Maurice Ravel.
Mother Goose Suite (Ma Mère l’Oye), Parts 1, 2, & 3 (arr. Bill Holcombe)
Chesapeake, VA: Bill Holcombe’s Musicians Pub’s http://billholcombe.com/
Sold in 3 separate volumes:
Vol. 1 – The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood and Tom Thumb.
Vol. 2 – Laideronnette and Empress of the Pagodas;
Vol. 3 – Conversations of Beauty and the Beast and The Fairy Garden.
The “Conversations of Beauty and the Beast” (“Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête”) in the orchestra version of the Mother Goose Suite features a famous dialogue between the principal violinist and the contrabassoonist. Even if the arrangements don’t call for it, a performance would be enhanced if the bassoonist is comfortable doubling on contrabassoon for that movement. [Andrew Brandt]
Ma Mère l’Oye (1911) (Mother Goose Suite) by Maurice Ravel (arr. Frank Morelli)
Tallevast, Florida: TrevCo Music Publishing, 2005 (now Trevco-Varner)
Flute doubles on piccolo; oboe doubles on English horn; Clarinet uses both B♭ and A. Complete suite: Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant; Petit poucet; Laideronnette, impéatrice des pagodes; Les entretiens de Belle et de la Bête; Le jardin féerique. Flute doubles on piccolo; oboe doubles on English horn; Clarinet in B-flat and A. (No contrabassoon.)
Two Tunes from Mother Goose (arr. McCall)
Southern Music Co.
Ma Mère L’Oye (Mother Goose Suite, 1911) (arr. Mark Popkin)
Charlotte, NC: ALRY Publications Etc., Inc.
Flute & oboe double on piccolo and English horn. Pavane de la Belle ou bois dormant; Petit Poucet; Laideronnette, Impératrice des Pagodes; Les Entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête; Le Jardin Féerique.
Reviewed as an excellent arrangement, best of the works available from Alry Publications.
Ma Mère L’Oye (Mother Goose Suite, 1911) (arr. Lawrence David Eden)
Portland, Me.: Manduca Music Publications, 1997
Ma Mère L’Oye (Mother Goose Suite Selections, 1911) (arr. John Gibson)
JB Linear; See also http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
Includes Pavanne for Sleeping Beauty; Tom Thumb; Empress of the Pagodas; Conversations between Beauty and the Beast.
Ma Mère L’Oye (Mother Goose Suite, 1911) (arr. John Grande)
Ludwig Masters Publication, 2009
Ma Mère L’Oye (Mother Goose Suite Selections, 1911) (arr. Wolfgang Renz) for dectet, woodwind and string quintets.
For flute (piccolo), oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, cello, and double bass. Duration: 15:00 See: http://wolfgang-renz-notendruck.de/ .
Ma Mère L’Oye Selections (Mother Goose Suite, 1911) (arr. Ray Thompson)
RayThompsonMusic, see also sheetmusicplus.com
Includes: Pavane; Petite Poucet; Le Jardin Feerique.
‘Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant’ (Sleeping Beauty) from Ma Mère L’Oye (arr. Pierre Gouin)
Montreal: Les Éditions Outremontaises, 2006
This movement is available from the International Music Score Library Project website with a Creative Commons license for non-commercial performance. (Likely intended for student groups.)
“Kaddisch” from Deux Melodies Hebraiques (arr. Sylvia Coricelli)
Tallevast, FL: TrevCo Music
La Flûte Enchantée from Shéhérazade (1903) (arr. Adam Lesnick)
Richmond, Virginia: International Opus, 1996
A transcription of the second movement of the Ravel song cycle, including the complete orchestral flute solo. Available only in the USA and Canada.
Menuet Antique (1895) (arr. Ted Shapiro)
Trevco Music Publishing
Duration: 4:30. Originally for piano.
Minuet (arr. Paul Jouard)
Shawnee Press
Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess, 1899) (arr. Adam Lesnick)
Richmond, Virginia: International Opus, 1995
Available only in the USA and Canada. Catalog states that the work retains all the horn and woodwind solos from the original orchestral work.
Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. Intravaia)
New York: McGinnis & Marx
Pavane for a Dead Princess (arr. Sean Osborn)
Octogram Press, see http://www.osbornmusic.com/
Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. Andreas Tarkmann)
Schott Music
Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. Guy du Cheyron)
Accolade Musikverlag
Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. Ray Thompson)
RayThompsonMusic, see also SheetMusicPlus.com
Pavane pour une infante défunte (Ed. Wolfgang Birtel; Arr. Andreas Tarkmann)
Schott Music
Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. Lance Baker) for double woodwind quintet
Framfield (England?): Tickerage Press (available from June Emerson Wind Music)
Both oboes double on English horn.
Pavane pour une infante défunte (arr. Brett Freithaler)
Performed by the Blythwood Winds
Pièce en Forme de Habanera (arr. Clarke S. Kessler)
Paris: A. Leduc, 1909 /
Boca Raton, Florida: Masters Music
Duration: 3:00.
Prelude (arr. Harold Wevers)
TrevCo Music Publishing
From an unspecified piano prelude.
Ravel Sonatine (1912) (arr. Wayne Peterson)
Tunbridge, Vermont: Trillenium Music Co., 1997
Duration: 12:00.
“Mouvement de Menuet” from Sonatina (arr. Hershy Kay, 1946) for double woodwind quintet
Ravel wrote the original work for piano between 1903-1905. Duration: 4:00.
Troix Beaux Oiseaux du Paradis (1914-1915) (arr. D. Wilson Ochoa)
Richmond, Virginia: International Opus
Originally a choral work, the second in a set of three chansons, based on a World War I poem about a young girl visited by three birds of paradise bringing news of her faraway love, a soldier. Available only in the U.S.A. and Canada.
Three Chansons (arr. Bill Holcombe & Bill Holcombe, Jr.)
Chesapeake, VA: Bill Holcombe’s Musicians Pub’s (http://billholcombe.com/)
Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, Parts 1-4 (arr. Bill Holcombe and Bill Holcombe, Jr.)
W. Trenton, NJ: Musicians Publications /
Chesapeake, VA: Bill Holcombe’s Musicians Pub’s (http://billholcombe.com/)
The 4 parts are sold separately.
Trois Valses Nobles et Sentimentales (1911) (arr. William Schmidt)
Greeley, CO: Western International Music, 1997
Valses Nobles et Sentimentales by Maurice Ravel (arr. Frank Morelli)
Tallevast, Florida: TrevCo Music Publishing, 2005 (now Trevco-Varner)
Uses clarinet in A and B♭. Includes the complete eight Waltzes.
Rautavaara, Einojuhani (1928- )
Wind Octet, Op. 21 (1962) for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, 2 horns, bass trombone.
Rawle, Phillip
Blowing Hot and Cold
Lancashire: Forton Music, 2015
See also: http://phil.rawle.org/ .
Rawsthorne, Alan (1905-1971)
Concerto for Ten Instruments (1961) for woodwind quintet and strings
London: Oxford University Press
Score may be purchased. Parts are rental only.
See Rawsthorne’s Quintet for piano and winds.
Rea, John (1944- )
Reception and Offering Music: Anaphora IV (1975) for alto flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, percussion
Toronto: Canadian Music Center
Commissioned and recorded by the York Winds. Flute and clarinet double on percussion. Movements: Reception; Offering.
According the the Canadian Encyclopedia online, while Anaphora (the beginning of the titled series) marked John Rea’s “exploration of serial techniques … [in] Reception and Offering Music he turned to Tibetan ritual music for inspiration.”
Read, Gardner (1913-2005)
Scherzino for Woodwind Quintet, Op. 24 (1933)
G. Read, 1933 /
San Antonio, Texas: Southern Music Publishing, 1953
Duration: 4:15. See also: http://home.att.net/~gardnerread/ .
also:
Nine by Six, Op. 86 (1950) for flute/piccolo, oboe/English horn, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet.
The title refers to the fact that 9 instruments are played by 6 musicians. 4 movements.
Two Songs for Voice and Woodwind Quintet, Op. 84b
Glen Rock, New Jersey: J. Fischer & Bro.
Songs: The Lamb; Sister, Awake.
Duration: 3:00.
Music for Chamber Winds, Op. 141, for double woodwind quintet and percussion
Published by the composer, 1980.
See Read’s work for woodwind quintet and piano.
Reale, Paul (1943- )
Eleven Miniatures for Wind Quintet (1979)
Duration: 11:00. Photocopy of holograph. [Los Angeles?]
Rebne, Rune (1961- )
Eedss
Oslo: NB noter (Contemporary Norwegian sheet music)
Duration: 10:00.
Rebner, Wolfgang (1910-1993)
Sextett, for woodwind quintet and bass clarinet
Edition Modern
Austrian composer. See Cohn for a brief description.
Quintet for Woodwinds (1946) for flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, and bassoon.
3 movements. The second movement’s “Tune and Alterations” is a series of variations on Randall Thompson’s setting of “She shall Walk in the Snow.” See Arthur Cohn, “The Literature of Chamber Music,” for description.
Rechtman, Mordechai (1926-2023)
Arrangements
Baroque Suite for Wind Quintet (arrangements of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, François Couperin, Jean Baptiste Loeillet, Jean-Philippe Rameau and Jean Baptiste Senaille)
Holzkirchen, Germany: Accolade Musikverlag
A compiled “French Suite” including:
Rondeau (from “Les Moissonneurs”) by François Couperin
Gigue by Jean Baptiste Loeillet
Praludium, BWV 902 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Minuet I and II by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Allegro spirituoso by Jean Baptiste Senaille.
Reviewer Ron Klimko calls this collection “a refreshing, new Baroque work that sparkles brilliantly and would make a wonderful opening composition for a quintet recital.”
Mordechai Rechtman is the retired principal bassoonist of the Israel Philharmonic and well known internationally for his teaching and playing. (He was also one of my teachers!) He is a perfectionist in everything that he does musically. (Reportedly he’s also an excellent chess player!) — All reviews of his arrangements have given them high praise. Many of his arrangements are scattered around this list under various composers. I’d recommend, in particular, looking at Rechtman’s arrangements of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Mozart. [Andrew Brandt]
Mordechai’s Portfolio: Masterpieces arranged for woodwind quintet
New York: McGinnis & Marx, 1998
Redding, James
Quintet
Massapequa, New York: Cor Publishing Co.
Reed, Alfred (1921-2005)
Double Wind Quintet
E. B. Marks, distributed by Belwin Mills
For woodwind and brass quintets: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone and tuba. Movements: Intrada (Fanfares, Entrances, and Marches); Pavane (Elegy); Toccata (Rock).
Reed, Marlyce Rae Polk (1955- )
Woodwind Quintet (1982)
New York: G. Schirmer
Reeman, John(1946- )
Snapshots for double woodwind quintet
Lancashire, UK: J. Reeman, 1993
Snapshots is written for the wind section of an orchestra in Lancashire. It consists of 3 unnamed movements in a fast-slow-fast order. See also: http://www.spartanpress.co.uk/spweb/creators.php?creatorid=130
Rees, Carla
Earthrise for double woodwind quintet (flute/piccolo, flute/alto flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, 2 horns)
Tetractys, 2000
Duration: 10:00. The composer is also a performing specialist on alto and bass flutes and works to develop new recital repertoire for those instruments.
Reger, Max (1873-1916)
Fugue, Op. 56, No. 2 (arr. Brown)
From Reger’s Five Easy Preludes and Fugues for Organ.
Nachtlied, Op. 138, No. 3 (Night Song) (arr. Bill Schuetter)
Imagine Music; see also http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
Duration: 3:00.
Serenade Movements, Op. 141a (arr. Geoffrey Emerson)
Yorkshire: The Red Hedgehog (45 Falsgrave Rd., Scarborough, Yorkshire, England) or gwemerson[at]argonet.co.uk
Originally for flute, violin and viola.
Zwei Deutsche Tanze (arr. Roland Garscha)
See Niedernhausen, Germany: Noten Roehr
also:
Serenade in One Movement for double woodwind quintet plus 3rd and 4th horns.
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic
Regt, Hendrik de (1950- )
Musica per quintetto a fiati, Op. 3 (1969)
Amsterdam: Stichting Donemus, 1972
This is the first of many of Regt’s works entitled “Musica” for various combinations.
Preludium & Pastorale (2008)
Antwerp, Belgium: Digital Music Print (DMP), see http://ummpdigital.com/chamber-music/
Rehak, Vaclav (1933- )
Bläserquintett (1959)
Rehfeld, Kurt (1920- )
Sechs Stücke für Bläserquintett (Six Pieces)
Creglingen: Musikverlag Kurt Rehfeld, 1983 /
Tallevast, Florida: TrevCo Music
Movements: Morgenspaziergang; Blick uebers Tal; Der froehliche Jaeger; Kleine Laendlermusik; Nette Begegnung; Bruder Lustig.
Engadin-Suite
Tallevast, Florida: TrevCo Music
Heitere Bläsermusik
Tallevast, Florida: TrevCo Music /
Edition Cranz
Pastorale & Scherzo
Tallevast, Florida: TrevCo Music
Řehoř, Bohuslav (1938- )
2 Morgenstern-Suiten (1968/69)
Aerofonie II (1999)
Reicha, Anton (also variously spelled Antoine, Antonín, Rejcha)(1770-1836)
Reicha wrote 24 quintets found in Op. 88, 91, 99, 100, the largest number of multi-movement woodwind quintets written by any composer. (Reicha’s Autobiography also mentions an earlier, experimental wind quintet of about 1811.) He was friends with Beethoven and studied with Haydn and Salieri, among others. He played flute, violin and piano, but gave up performance to compose, writing all 24 quintets in a rather short period of about 10-12 years. ¶ In his Autobiography, Reicha states “I owe their success to those admirable musicians, Mssrs. Guillou, Vogt, Bourfil, Dauprat and Henry whose perfect rendition of them at public concerts and private musicales started all Paris talking about them.” [Translation by Samuel Baron, “The Woodwind Quintet: A Symposium, Reicha, Herald of the Quintet,” in Woodwind Magazine, Nov. 1954.] The performers were fellow music faculty at the Conservatoire and members of the Opéra Comique: flutist Joseph Guillou, 1787-1853; oboist Gustave Vogt, 1781-1870; clarinetist Jacques-Jules Bouffil (yes, the spelling is different), 1783-1868; hornist Louis-François Dauprat, 1781-1868; and bassoonist Antoine Nicholas Henry, 1777-1842. ¶ Peter Eliot Stone in the New Grove’s states, “Reicha’s wind quintets show his refined sense of instrumental colour and have served as models of their genre.” ¶ Reicha was appointed professor of counterpoint and fugue at the Paris Conservatoire in 1818 (where 8 of his students were already on the faculty!), and became one of the leading musical theorists and teachers of his day. His students include Flotow, Habaneck, Rode, Berlioz, Liszt, Gounod, Viardot and Franck as well as three composers of interest to quintet musicians, George Onslow, Henry Brod and Louise Farrenc who wrote a nonet for wind quintet and string quartet, and a sextet for winds and piano. ¶ There are (at least) two woodwind quintet ensembles who have recorded all 24 quintets: The Albert Schweitzer Quintet on the CPO label on 10 CDs, and The Westwood Quintet for Crystal Records on 12 CDs. ¶ Facsimiles of the original publication of the 24 quintets are available, but if using them, be aware that the clarinet parts are in C and the horn parts, for natural horn, have crook changes. ¶ For more background on these quintets, and a novel method of dividing them into stylistic categories, see Charles-David Lehrer’s article in THE DOUBLE REED, Vol. 25, No. 2 (summer 2002) or check the IDRS website. This same issue also has a complete discography for all the quintets. Since there are so many editions, and new ones keep coming out, please contact me about new editions (and recordings) so I can list them. [ Andrew Brandt ]
Charles-David Lehrer has issued a complete modern, edited set of Reicha quintets for download at the International Double Reed Society website: https://www.idrs.org/scores/Lehrer2/Reicha/index.html (only members can download the entire parts and scores). His introduction to the set is an interesting commentary on the works: https://www.idrs.org/scores/Lehrer2/Reicha/Introduction_Reicha.html
All 24 quintets are photographed on microfilm by Andover, Mass.: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 1991. microfilm reel. They are also available at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
Parts for all 24 quintets are also now available as PDFs from the Canadian-based International Music Score Library Project at http://imslp.org/index.php?title=Category:Reicha,_Anton
Also, The National Library of Denmark and Copenhagen University Library at http://www5.kb.dk/en/nb/samling/ma/digmus/1800/reicha.html has scanned copies of the original editions of many of the Reicha Quintets which you may download for free.
OPUS 88:
Woodwind Quintets, Op. 88, Nos. 1-6 (1811-1817)
Paris: Chez Boieldieu jeune, ca. 1818
Mayence: B. Schott, 1818
Bonn, Cologne: Simrock, 1818
Paris: Costallat
Woodwind Quintet in E Minor, Op. 88, No. 1
Basel: Kneusslin, 1980
Munchen: F.E.C. Leuckart, 1980
Sarasota, FL: Trillenium Music Co.
One or two sources list this work’s key as C-sharp Minor, but examination of the parts clearly contradicts this. The piece ends with a brief section in E Major. [ Andrew Brandt ]
Woodwind Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 88, No. 2
Leipzig: F.E.C. Leuckart, 1937, (U.S. agent: Associate Music Publishers, NY) /
Unna, BR Germany: Karthause, 1992
New York: G. Schirmer
Leningrad: Izd Muzyka, Leningradskoe otdelenie, 1972
Los Angeles: BrightStar Music Publications: Western International Music, 1972
Bradfield, Berkshire, England: Rosewood Publications, www.rosewoodpublications.co.uk
G. Henle Verlag
Possibly the most popular of the Reicha quintets. The Leuckart edition has large cuts.
Woodwind Quintet in G Major, Op. 88, No. 3
Basel: Kneusslin, 1956, 1991
Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1978 1957
Praha (Prague): Statni nakl. krasne literatury, hudby a umen’, export: Artia, 1957
Woodwind Quintet in D Minor, Op. 88, No. 4
Basel: Kneusslin, 1978 (NY & Canada, sole selling agent: C.F. Peters)
Barbera Secrist-Schmedes, in Wind Chamber Music, explains, “The virtuosity of the oboe part is established immediately in the opening Allegro. The horn is an equal part in all of Reicha’s quintets and is given some incredibly difficult melodic material in this work….”
Woodwind Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 88, No. 5
Boca Raton: Masters Music, 1992
Munchen: F. E. C. Leuckart, 1958
Barbera Secrist-Schmedes, in Wind Chamber Music, states that some parts of the finale “make one think of The Nutcracker….” Intro ends with a horn cadenza.
Woodwind Quintet in F Major, Op. 88, No. 6
Basel: Kneusslin, 1978 (NY & Canada, sole selling agent: C.F. Peters)
Barbera Secrist-Schmedes, in Wind Chamber Music, writes that this work has a more serious feel than many of the other Reicha quintets.
Introduction and Allegro (from Quintet, Opus 88 No. 4, in D minor)
New York:Mercury Music Corp.,1947
“[T]ranscribed and edited by Roger Smith”.
OPUS 91:
Six Quintets, Op. 91, Nos. 1-6 (?1817-1819)
Bonn et Cologne: Simrock, ca. 1819
Paris: Chez Boieldieu jne, 1820
Paris: Costallat
Woodwind Quintet No. 7 in C major, Op. 91, No. 1
Basel, Edition Kneusslin (U.S. and Canada: C. F. Peters Corp.), 1960
Barbera Secrist-Schmedes, in Wind Chamber Music, explains that this work has an unusual “abundance of melodic material, much of which has a distinct folk flavor.” The end propels the oboe “into a last virtuoso somersault.”
Woodwind Quintet No. 8 in A Minor, Op. 91, No. 2
Basel: Kneusslin, 1970 (U.S. & Canada, C. F. Peters)
Lottstetten/Waldshut: Kunzelmann, 1993, 1970
London: Musica Rara
Paris: Richault & Cie., ca. 1890
Woodwind Quintet No. 9 in D Major, Op. 91, No. 3
Boca Raton: Masters Music
Basel: Kneusslin, 1956, 1988
Praha (Prague): Editio Supraphon, 1978, 1957
Praha: Statni nakl. krasne literatury, hudby a umen’, export: Artia, 1957
Lottstetten/Waldshut: Kunzelmann, 1993 (reprint of 1988 Kneusslin edition)
Paris: Costallat et Cie., ca. 1890
Woodwind Quintet No. 10 in G Minor, Op. 91, No. 4
Melville, N.Y.: Belwin Mills,1978 (Kalmus edition)
Paris: Editions M.-R. Braun,1950
International Music
Paris: Billaudot Editions Musicales /
Paris: Costallat et Cie., ca. 1890 /
New York: McGinnis & Marx
Woodwind Quintet No. 11 in A Major, Op. 91, No. 5
Basel: Kneusslin, 1961 (U.S. & Canada: C. F. Peters)
Berlin: N. Simrock, 1910
Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1978 1957
Praha (Prague): Statni nakl. krasne literatury, hudby a umen’, export: Artia, 1957
Musicaphon, 1977?
Woodwind Quintet No. 12 in C Minor, Op. 91, No. 6
Basel: Edition Kneusslin, 1975, US agent: C. F. Peters
Leningrad: Izd Muzyka, Leningradskoe otdelenie, 1972
Paris: Costallat et Cie., ca. 1890
A lengthy work (almost a symphony for quintet). I like it. Moderately difficult. [Andrew Brandt]
Andante and Menuetto Allegro from Quintet in C major, opus 91, No. 1
Park Ridge, Ill.:Neil A. Kjos,1968
OPUS 99:
Six Quintets, Op. 99, Nos 1-6 (1811-1819)
Bonn, Cologne: Simrock, 1822 or 1823
Paris: Costallat, 1819
Bradfield, UK: Rosewood Publications
Woodwind Quintet No. 13 in C Major, Op. 99, No. 1
Berlin: N. Simrock (ca. 1880)
Paris: Richault & Cie., ca. 1890
New York: Associated Music Publishers
Bradfield, Berkshire, England: Rosewood Publications, www.rosewoodpublications.co.uk
Woodwind Quintet No. 14 in F Minor, Op. 99, No. 2
London: Musica Rara, 1968
Paris: Richault & Cie., ca. 1890
Lancaster, UK: Phylloscopus Publications, http://www.phylloscopus.co.uk/
Bradfield, Berkshire, England: Rosewood Publications, www.rosewoodpublications.co.uk
Movements and durations: Larghetto-Allegro (Duration: 12:00); Andante (6:40); Menuetto (5:00); Allegro poco vivace (11:00).
I performed this work with the Shreveport Symphony Woodwind Quintet and found it to be a thoroughly charming work and a good challenge for all the players. The flute has some particularly virtuosic displays, the clarinet almost as many but (as usual) the oboe has some of the best solos. Very classical in form, the work does show some of the harmonic experimentation of the very early 19th century, with the perfect contrapuntal technique Reicha was known for. I highly recommend this work for the quintet willing to put the necessary rehearsal time into it. The Musica Rara edition does have several note errors which need to be ferreted out. The editor, Franz Vester (in the Musica Rara edition, I think), makes many useful suggestions (given in parentheses) but some can be altered, depending on taste and technique. [ Andrew Brandt ]
Woodwind Quintet No. 15 in A Major, Op. 99, No. 3
Basel: Edition Kneusslin, 1990
Paris: Richault & Cie., ca. 1890
Hamburg: Hans Sikorski Musikverlag
Bradfield, Berkshire, England: Rosewood Publications, www.rosewoodpublications.co.uk
The New Grove’s Dictionary lists the key of this work as F Major, as does Cohn, but the Library of Congress lists this as A Major and the downloaded 1890 parts definitely have a key signature of 3 sharps. [ Andrew Brandt ]
Woodwind Quintet No. 16 in D Major, Op. 99, No. 4
New York: International Music, 1985
Paris: Costallat et Cie., ca. 1890
Hamburg: Hans Sikorski Musikverlag
Bradfield, Berkshire, England: Rosewood Publications, www.rosewoodpublications.co.uk
Duration: 26:14.
Woodwind Quintet No. 17 in B Minor, Op. 99, No. 5
Basel: Edition Kneusslin, 1991
Paris: Costallat et Cie., ca. 1890
Hamburg: Hans Sikorski Musikverlag
Bradfield, Berkshire, England: Rosewood Publications, www.rosewoodpublications.co.uk
Woodwind Quintet No. 18 in G Major, Op. 99, No. 6
Basel: Edition Kneusslin, 1983
Paris: Costallat et Cie., ca. 1890
Hamburg: Hans Sikorski Musikverlag
Bradfield, Berkshire, England: Rosewood Publications, www.rosewoodpublications.co.uk
OPUS 100:
Six Quintets, Op. 100, Nos. 1-6 (ca. 1820)
Bonn, Cologne: Simrock, ca. 1822
Mayence: Schott, 1825
Paris: Zetter, ca. 1826
Paris, Richault, 1840
Paris: Costallat, 1820
Sarasota, FL: Trillenium Music Co., 2012
Original Schott edition (1825) available on microfilm from Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, Library Photographic Service, 1987, see also the microfilm edition also available from Andover, Mass.: Northeast Document Conservation Center listed above.
Woodwind Quintet No. 19 in F Major, Op. 100, No. 1
Paris: Costallat et Cie., ca. 1890
Leipzig: R. Ostermeyer Musikedition, 2002
Woodwind Quintet No. 20 in D minor, Op. 100, No. 2
Paris: Costallat et Cie., ca. 1890
Tunbridge, Vt.: Trillenium Music, ca. 1999
Leipzig : R. Ostermeyer Musikedition, 2002
Lancaster, UK: Phylloscopus Publications, http://www.phylloscopus.co.uk/
Duration: 27:00. Trillenium edition advertises: “First-ever publication with score.” (But the score costs as much as the parts!)
Woodwind Quintet No. 21 in E-flat Major, Op. 100, No. 3
Basel: Edition Kneusslin, 1958 (US agent: C.F. Peters)
Paris: Costallat et Cie., ca. 1890
Tunbridge, Vt.: Trillenium Music
Leipzig: R. Ostermeyer Musikedition, 2003
Bradfield, Berkshire, England: Rosewood Publications
Duration: 27:00.
Woodwind Quintet No. 22 in E Minor, Op. 100, No. 4
Basel: Edition Kneusslin, 1958 (US agent: C.F. Peters)
Milano: G. Ricordi & Co., 1965
Tunbridge, Vt.: Trillenium Music Co. (Box 88, Tunbridge, VT 05077), 1997
Duration: 30:00.
Woodwind Quintet No. 23 in A Minor, Op. 100, No. 5
Paris: Costallat et Cie., ca. 1890
Tunbridge, VT: Trillenium Music Co.,1996
Leipzig: R. Ostermeyer Musikedition, 2004
Duration: 30:00.
Woodwind Quintet No. 24 in B-flat Major, Op. 100, No. 6
Paris: Costallat et Cie., ca. 1890
Tunbridge, VT: Trillenium Music Co., 1994
Leipzig: R. Ostermeyer Musikedition, 2004
Duration: 28:00.
UNLISTED OPUS:
Quintet in F
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic,1992
Possibly also published in Prague: Panton, 1989
Recorded by the Albert Schweitzer Quintet on Rejcha cop 999 028-2 (vol. 7) and by the Academia Wind Quintet of Prague on Hyperion CDA 66268, Supraphon 1111 3027.
OTHER WORKS OR COLLECTIONS:
Adagio for English Horn (no opus number given)
Salem, CT: Cimarron Music Press cimarronmusic.com
Edited by the Borealis Wind Quintet.
2 Andantes & Adagio “Pour le cor Anglais” (1817-1819), no opus number
London: Musica Rara
This quintet features solo English horn instead of oboe.
Concertante (1817?), no opus number
For woodwind quintet. Possibly unpublished.
Four Movements (before 1826) without opus number
Movements in the keys of G major, F major, G Major, D major.
Tre quintetti per stromenti da fiato (Three Quintets for Wind Instruments)
Op. 88, No. 3 in G Major
Op. 91, No. 9 (i.e. No. 3) in D Major
Op. 91, No. 11 (i.e. No. 5) in A Major
Praha: Editio Supraphon,1978 1957
PDF of score of this edition available: http://imslp.org/wiki/3_Quintetti_per_stromenti_da_fiato_(Reicha,_Anton)
Quintet in E Major, Op. 106 (arr. Kenneth C. Henslee)
Tucson, AZ: K. C. Henslee Pub. (P.O. Box 41524, Tucson 85717-1524), 1996
Work originally for horn, 2 violins, viola, and cello. Includes parts for A and B-flat Clarinets and E and F horns.
also:
Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 96 (ca. 1817) for oboe or flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet and optional double
London: Musica Rara, 1968
Grand Symphonie de Salon (ca. 1825) for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet and double bass
Grand Symphonie de Salon, No. 1 (ca. 1827) for woodwind quintet, string quartet and double bass
Grand Symphonie de Salon, No. 2 (ca. 1827) for woodwind quintet, string quartet and double bass
Reicha, Joseph (Josef Rejcha) (1752-1795)
Parthia in F Major for double woodwind quintet
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic /
Oettingen-Wallerstein’sche Hofbibliothek, Ms 570
Movements: I. Allegro; II. Andante; III. Menuet; IV. Rondo.
Program note fodder: Joseph Reicha (or Rejcha) was uncle to Anton Reicha and helped raise and teach Anton. Joseph eventually got a job conducting the court orchestra in Bonn. He brought young Anton with him to play violin and flute in the Bonn orchestra. There Anton befriended a young violist, born the same year (1770), who also played in the orchestra. The violist’s name was Ludwig van Beethoven and the two were friends for the rest of Beethoven’s life. ¶ It would be interesting to research the lives of Joseph and Anton Reicha to see whether the younger composer got the idea for writing woodwind quintets based on a smaller version of his uncle’s dectets for double winds. [ Andrew Brandt ]
Partita No. 1 in F Major for double woodwind quintet (edited Ian Harrold)
Gloucester, UK: IH Music http://www.ihmusic.co.uk/
Parthia in D Major for double woodwind quintet plus double bass
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic /
Oettingen-Wallerstein’sche Hofbibliothek, Ms 489
Parthia in D Major for double woodwind quintet plus double bass
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic /
Oettingen-Wallerstein’sche Hofbibliothek, Ms 497
Parthia in D Major for double woodwind quintet plus double bass
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic /
Oettingen-Wallerstein’sche Hofbibliothek, Ms 94
Parthia in D Major (1783) for double woodwind quintet plus 3rd horn and double bass
Oettingen-Wallerstein’sche Hofbibliothek, Ms 651
Parthia in D Major for double woodwind quintet and double bass.
Leipzig: Robert Ostermeyer
The library listing has a catalog listing of “4o496”, so this might be distinct from the previous Parthias in D. Or maybe not. It’s from the Oettingen-Wallersteiner Harmoniemusik collection.
Parthia in D Major for double woodwind quintet, 3rd horn and double bass (4o651)
Leipzig: Robert Ostermayer
The catalog numbering suggests this might be the same work as Ms 651 listed above in the Oettingen-Wallerstein’sche Hofbibliothek.
Partita in D Major for solo flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns and bassoon
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic
Parthia in F Major (1783) for double woodwind quintet plus 3rd horn and double bass
Oettingen-Wallerstein’sche Hofbibliothek, Ms 490
Reiche, Johannes (1955- )
Quintett in 3 Satzen
Leipzig: Friedrich Hoffmeister Musikverlag
Movements: Langsam, aber mit Spannung; Langsam und sehr getragen; Lebhaft und rhythmisch akzentuiert.
Reichel, A.
Two Quintets
Andraud (now Southern Music)
“A. Reichel” is probably Adolf Reichel (1816 or 1820 to 1896), but could possibly also refer to (Carl) Anton Reichel, a composer mainly of piano works, or Alexander Reichel (1853-1921, son of Anton). There is now an Adolf Reichel Society in Switzerland, but I’ve found in info on these quintets so far.
Reichel, Bernard (1901-1992)
Prelude, Passacaile et Postlude, Op. 82 (1951)
Manuscript: Swiss Music Archive, Zurich
Adliswil: Pizzicato Verlag Helvetia, 2001
Duration: 12:00.
Reid, John William (1946- )
Woodwind Quartet [sic.] for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and
bassoon
Woodwind Quintet No. 2 (?)
Composer was affiliated with Washington State University. (Not to be confused with Gen. John Reid of 1721-1807.)
Reidinger, Friedrich (1890-1972)
Divertimento, Op. 23 (1943)
Reidy, Terry
Quintet for “flexible wind quintet”
Blackwood, S.Aust.: Kangaroo Music, 2000
Includes parts for five instruments, each in different keys.
Reif, Paul (1910-1978)
Wind Spectrum (1966)
New York: Seesaw Music Corp., 1966
Movements: Blue; Green; Red; Purple; Yellow.
Kaleidoscope
New York: Seesaw Music, 1966
For wind quintet and optional narrator and maracas.
also:
Monsieur le Pelican (1960) for Flute, Oboe, English horn, 2 Clarinets, Horn, 2 Bassoons
Written for Albert Schweitzer’s 85th birthday. The pelican refers to a pet of Schweitzer’s. See Arthur Cohn, The Literature of Chamber Music.
Serenade for Eight for flute; oboe, English horn, 2 clarinets, horn and 2 bassoons
New York: Leslie Productions, 1958
Reifsteck, Adam (1983- )
Nightscapes
Published by the composer. See also: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
See http://sonicfear.com/ to contact the composer through a variety of social media.
Reimann, Aribert (1936- )
Invenzioni (1979) for flute/alto flute/piccolo, oboe/English horn, clarinet/bass clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, string quartet and bass
Reinecke, Carl Heinrich (1824-1910)
Sextett (in B-flat Major), Op. 271 (1904) for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and 2 horns
Leipzig: Jul. Heinr. Zimmermann
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic, 1989
3 movements: I. Allegro moderato; II. Adagio molto – Vivace ma non troppo; III. Finale: Allegro moderato ma con spirito – Molto più allegro, quasi doppio movemento. The score (without parts) is available for free download from the International Music Score Library Project, at http://imslp.org/wiki/Wind_Sextet,_Op.271_(Reinecke,_Carl) . A recording of the full work by Soni Ventorum is also available on the IMSLP site.
A listen to the Soni Ventorum recording along with the score shows this to be a wonderful, late Romantic work which should challenge the players with its rhythmic diversity and changing tempos. Solos for the flute, clarinet and oboe, in particular, offer both technical and musical challenges. The second horn adds harmonic depth to the ensemble without overshadowing the woodwinds. If you feel the dearth of challenging late Romantic works for quintet, it should be worthwhile to find the parts, drum up an extra horn player, and invest considerable rehearsal time to perform this work. [Andrew Brandt]
Octet, Op. 216 for flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns
Leipzig: F. Kistner, 1892
Score and parts available for download from the International Music Score Library Project: http://imslp.org/wiki/Octet,_Op.216_(Reinecke,_Carl)
Von der Wiege bis zur Bahre (From the Cradle to the Grave), Op. 202 (1888). A Cycle of 16 Fantasy pieces with text by Franz Classen (arr. Wolfgang Renz) for dectet, woodwind and string quintets
For flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, cello, and double bass, with actor / narrator for optional text. Duration: 50:00 without text. See: http://wolfgang-renz-notendruck.de/ . This piece was originally written for piano (both 2 and 4 hands) and was arranged by the composer and others several times. For a full listing of the movements (in German and English) and to download the original piano score, go to the International Music Score Library Project, http://imslp.org/wiki/Von_der_Wiege_bis_zum_Grabe,_Op.202_(Reinecke,_Carl) .
Reiner, Karel (1910-1979)
7 Miniaturen (1931)
Talks (Hratki?) for Wind Quintet (1971-72)
also:
Little Suite (1961) for flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns.
See Karel Reiner’s Suite for piano and woodwind quintet.
Reinhardt, Bruno (1929- )
Quintet (1965), Hommage to Arnold Schonberg
Tel Aviv: Israel Composers’ League, http://www.israelcomposers.org/
Performed by the Israel Woodwind Quintet. Duration: 5:00. This work was created from the same tone row as Schonberg’s ‘Variations for Orchestra’, Op. 31.
A Movement for Wind Quintet (2001)
Tel Aviv: Israel Music Center
Duration: 5:00.
Reinhart, Hugo
Quintette en sol mineur (arr. or edited by David Walter)
Paris: G. Billaudot, 2003
Reinhold, Otto (1899-1965)
Bläserquintett (1962)
Leipzig: Edition Peters, 1964 /
Frankfurt: H. Litolff’s Verlag
Reinkemeyer, Andrea (1976- )
Three Pieces (1999)
Duration: 19:00. Oboe doubles on English horn. Movements: Minuet and Trio; Passacaglia; Rondo. On the composer’s website, she lists this work under “Retired Works,” but encourages visitors to email her for performance materials and to listen. See http://andreareinkemeyer.com/
Reisberg, Horace
Octet for woodwind quintet and string trio (1962)
For flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola and cello.
Reisfeld, Bert (1906-1991)
Scherzo
Hollywood, Calif.: Abbey Music, 1949
Reisfeld was a composer (classical and popular), a lyricist, a translator, and a writer, eventually becoming a journalist and member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Born in Vienna, he left Berlin in 1933 due to his Jewish lineage, went to Paris and then to the USA, ending in Hollywood. Later in life he must have returned to Germany, since he is buried in Badenweiler. He also used the names Albert H. Stanley, and Burt Rice. His papers are archived in the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California.
Reiter, Albert (1905-1970)
Musik für 5 Bläser
Wien: Doblinger, 1963
Arthur Cohn, The Literature of Chamber Music: It’s “Hindemith without the chromatics…. Attractive music that has easy flow in its neoclassic naturalness.”
Reisteter, Steve
Three Carols for Woodwind Quintet
JPM Music Publications
No mention of which Christmas carols are included. A clarinetist, Reisteter is based in Bethlehem, PA and has also done lots of arrangements for band and other ensembles.
Reizenstein, Franz (Theodor) (1911-1968)
Quintet, Op. 5 (1935)
London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1937 (possibly rental only) /
Belwin
Duration: 15:00. Movements: 1. Andante con moto; 2. Molto vivace; 3. Intermezzo; 4. Allegro moderato. The first performance was by the London Wind Quintet, on BBC.
Arthur Cohn, The Literature of Chamber Music, says, “The music is fresh, natural, and stylistically unified in a neoclassical (Hindemithian) sense… not a segment of banality and never a striving for effect.”
If you ever wished that Paul Hindemith had written a second woodwind quintet, here it is. A student of Hindemith, the German-born Reizenstein completed this work just after fleeing to Great Britain to escape the rise of the NAZIs. You don’t hear any of that stress in this work, which, to my ear, sounds sunnier than the Kleine Kammermusik of his teacher. This work deserves to be much better known than it has been.¶ If you are as unfamiliar with Reizenstein’s Quintet as I was, you will enjoy the 2003 recording of this work available on YouTube by the Frankfurt-based Ensemble Modern. Each movement is posted separately, starting with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHwxwUO0ku4 . Although Reizenstein later went on to study with Ralph Vaughan Williams, his Quintet shows a young composer threading his path from traditional Germanic Romantic style, Hindemithian music theory, Viennese 12-tone music and his mentor’s neo-classicism in a very turbulent decade for music and the world. [Andrew Brandt]
also:
Serenade in F Major, Op. 29a, for flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and double bass (1951)
London: Boosey & Hawkes
This is an arrangement of Reizenstein’s Serenade in F for chamber orchestra, Op. 29.
Rekašius, Antanas (1928-2003)
Woodwind Quintet No. 1 (1974)
Lithuanian Music Information Center, www.mic.lt
Duration: 7:00.
Woodwind Quintet No. 2 (1976)
Lithuanian Music Information Center, www.mic.lt
Duration: 8:00.
Woodwind Quintet No. 3 (1980)
Lithuanian Music Information Center, www.mic.lt
Duration: 7:00.
Woodwind Quintet No. 4 (1981)
Lithuanian Music Information Center, www.mic.lt
Duration: 6:00.
Woodwind Quintet No. 5 (1985)
Lithuanian Music Information Center, www.mic.lt
Duration: 14:00.
Woodwind Quintet No. 6 (1991)
Lithuanian Music Information Center, www.mic.lt
Duration: 10:00.
With so many quintets, could Rekasius be the Lithuanian Reicha? [Andrew Brandt]
Rektorys, Artuš (1935- )
Wind Quintet No. 3 (1998)
Hudebni Informacni Stredisko http://www.musicbase.cz/
Movements: Allegro vivace; Allegro vivo; Moderato; Moderato. Don’t confuse this composer with the Artuš Rektorys of 1877-1971 (or 1973), perhaps his grandfather?
Wind Quintet No. 4 (1999)
Hudebni Informacni Stredisko http://www.musicbase.cz/
Movements: Allegretto; Allegretto; Lento; Presto.
Remick Warren, Elinor
Renk, Chris (1983- )
Woodwind Quintet No. 1 (2012)
Recorded in doctoral recital at Indiana University at Bloomington.
Renosto, Paolo(1935-1988)
Musica per 10 (1977) for double woodwind quintet
Milano: Carisch, 1980
Rentaro, Taki
SEE Leech, Alan, arranger of Kojo-no-tsuki/Hana
Rentsch, Friedhelm (1955-2004)
Bläserquintett (1982)
Stuttgart: Carus Verlag
Duration: 10:00.
Repečkaitė, Justina (1989- )
The Gestures of Trembling (2010)
Duration: 4:30. See also: http://www.justinarepeckaite.eu/
Repoulis, Michael (1955- )
Planetarium
Pub. by Michael Repoulis; see also http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
Resanovic, Nikola (1955- )
Quintet No. 3 (2014)
Available on the composer’s website: http://www.nikolaresanovic.com/
Written for Solaris Wind Quintet. 3 movements: Cantus; Bitter-Sweet; Balkan Steamroller. Score and sound excerpts available on his website.
Drones and Nanorhythms (2000)
http://www.nikolaresanovic.com/
Score excerpt and sound recording available on the website. 3 movements: Drones and Nanorhythms; Quintessance; Joy-ride. Duration: 12:00. Written for and recorded by the Solaris Wind Quintet.
The Golden Canon (1984)
http://www.nikolaresanovic.com/
Written for and recorded by the Solaris Wind Quintet.
Resnick, David
Paha Sapa (The Black Hills)
Sinsinawa, Wisconsin: Alliance Publications, Inc.
Duration: 7:00.
Respighi, Ottorino (1879-1936)
Quintetto a fiati in sol minore, Op. 28 (Wind Quintet in G Minor) (1897-98)
Bologna: Edizioni Bongiovanni, 1986 /
Holzkirchen: Accolade Musikverlag, 2015
This is an original work for woodwind quintet, not an arrangement, however it is a student work.
Quintetto a fiati in sol minore, Op. 28 (Wind Quintet in G Minor) (edited, Trevor Cramor)
Trevco Music Publishing, 2006
Quintetto a fiati in sol minore, Op. 28 (Wind Quintet in G Minor) (edited, Luca Franceschelli)
Holzkirchen: Accolade Musikverlag, 2015
Quintetto a fiati in sol minore, Op. 28 (Wind Quintet in G Minor) (edited, Claudio Paradiso)
Eboli, Italy: Vigor Music, 2015
Ancient Airs and Dances, Three Selections from Suite No. 1 (1917) (arr. Adam Lesnick)
Richmond, Virginia: International Opus, 1996
Three Selections from Suite #1: Balletto from “Il Conte Orlando”, Villanella by Ignoto (end of 16th century); Gagliarda by Vincenzo Galilei. Catalog states that this arrangement retains all the woodwind solos from the 1919 orchestral version. Duration: 10:00. Available ONLY in the United States and Canada.
These are fairly easy, entertaining arrangements. We’ve used the first and last movements for school concerts with good results. [Andrew Brandt]
Gli Uccelli (The Birds) (arr. Alberto Schiavo)
Ancona, Italy: Bèrben Edizioni Musicali,http://www.berben.it/ ; See also http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
All five movements: Preludio; La colomba; La gallina; L’usignolo; Il cucú.
Gli Uccelli (The Birds) (arr. Trevor Cramer)
Trevco Music Publishing
Includes all five movements. Optional celeste part for last movement included.
La Boutique Fantasque (arr. Matt Scott)
Shaftesbury: EMU, 1998
Based on the music of Gioacchino Rossini.
Valse Caressante (arr. Silvia Coricelli)
Trevco Music Publishing
Taken from “Six Pieces for Solo Piano.”
Respondek, Karol
Wind Quintets (arrangements)
Krakow: PWM Edition, 2001
Appears to be arrangements of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Frederic Chopin, Antonin Dvorak, Scott Joplin.
Resseger, Robert E.
Woodwind Quintet No. 1.
Manuscript: Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music,
Rochester, New York
Reuland, Jacques (1918-2008)
Partita, voor blaaskwintet (1955)
Amsterdam: Donemus, 1967
Duration: 9:00.
Reuling, (Ludwig) Wilhelm (1802-1879)
Quintett
Mainz: B. Schott’s Sohne
Reutter, (Johann Adam Joseph Karl) Georg von (1708-1772)
Bläserquintett
Not to be confused with his father, Georg Reutter (1656-1738).
Reverdy, Michèle (1943- )
Quintette à vent (1980)
Lyon, France: Editions Notissimo, 1999 /
Paris: Alphonse Leduc
Duration: 15:00. See composer’s website: http://www.michelereverdy.com/
also:
El corro infrangibile (5 miniatures) (1982) for woodwind quintet, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, bass
Revueltas, Silvestre (1899-1940)
Suite
New York: Peer International (now Southern Music, San Antonio)
Primera pieza seria (First Little Serious Piece) (1940)
San Antonio: Southern Music Co., 1957
Originally written for piccolo, oboe, trumpet, clarinet and saxophone.
Segunda pieza seria (Second Little Serious Piece) (1940)
San Antonio: Southern Music Co., 1957
Originally written for piccolo, oboe, trumpet, clarinet and saxophone.
Third pieza seria (Third Serious Piece) (1940)
San Antonio: Southern Music Co.
Originally written for piccolo, oboe, trumpet, clarinet and saxophone.
Rey, Cemal Resid (or Reshid) (1904-1985)
In 5/8 Time (1934)
Turkish composer.
Reynolds, Roger (1934- )
Gathering (1965)
New York: C. F. Peters
Duration: 10:00. 5 scores needed for performance. See also: http://www.rogerreynolds.com/
Reynolds, Verne (1926-2011)
Woodwind Quintet (1964)
Melville, New York: Belwin-Mills Music
MCA Music
Manhattan, KS: Prairie Dawg Press
Also try Eastman School of Music/Univ. of Rochester
Duration: 20:00.
also:
Divertimento for Wind Quintet and Percussion (1990)
It is unclear what the instrumentation of the quintet is.
Concertare V (1975) for woodwind quintet, trumpet, trombone and percussion (bells, vibraphone, chimes, xylophone, tam-tam, temple blocks, claves, bongos and triangle)
See Verne Reynolds’ works for winds and piano.
Rezac, Ivan (1924-1977)
Bläserquintett (1971)
Rezende, Marisa (Barcellos) (1944- )
Adiamento (1991) for Woodwind Quintet, Soprano, 2 Baritones, violin, cello, piano, percussion, text by Fernando Pessoa
Centro de Documentacao de Musica Contemporanea CDMC-Brasil
Duration: 13:00.
Reznicek, Petr (1938- )
Konzertmusik (1968)
Praha: Cesky Hudebni Fond (Czech Music Foundation), 1974
Duration: 18:00.
also:
Suite for woodwind quintet and percussion
Brno: Janackova akademie muzickych umeni
Rheinberger, Josef Gabriel (1839-1901)
Prelude (arr. Ronald C. Dishinger)
Originally for violin and organ.
Abendfriede (Evening Peace) (arr. Bill Schuetter)
Imagine Music; see also: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
Duration: 2:20.
Nonet in A Major [???], Op. 139 (1884) for woodwind quintet, violin, viola, cello and bass
Edition Silvertrust, http://www.editionsilvertrust.com
Movements: 1. Allegro; 2. Minetto, Andantino; 3. Adagio molto; 4. Rondo – Finale: Allegro.
Although the score (downloaded from the International Music Score Library Project) shows the Nonet to clearly be in E♭ major, the Edition Silvertrust website catalog insists that it is in A Major, even though their recorded excerpt shows it to be in E-flat! (The same goes for the second movement as well.) If ordering the work from Silvertrust, I’d tell them to check the score and parts to ensure they are in the right key!
Nonett, Op. 139 in E♭ Major (1884) for woodwind quintet, violin, viola, cello, double bass
London: Musica Rara, 1969
Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag, 1992
Leipzig: Fr[anz] Kistner, 1885 (original publication)
Movements: 1. Allegro – Moderato – Adagio – Allegro vivo ; 2. Menuetto, Andantino – Trio – Menuetto d.c.; 3. Adagio molto; 4. Rondo – Finale: Allegro – Adagio molto – Allegro vivo. Duration: 35:00 Score and parts are available for download from the International Music Score Library Project. ¶ Parts of the nonet (probably the first movement) are based on an Octet that Rheinberger wrote in 1861 (for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, and contrabass). 23 years later he created this work with added flute (using the same instrumentation as for Louis Spohr’s Nonet of 1813). For more info about Rheinberger, see the website for the Internationale Josef Gabriel Rheinberger Gesellschaft at https://www.rheinberger.li/ .
See Rheinberger’s Sextet for woodwind quintet and piano.
Rhene-Baton (original name: René-Emmanuel Baton) (1879-1940)
Aubade, Op. 53 for Seven Wind Instruments for Flute, Oboe, 2 Clarinets, Horn, 2 Bassoons, Op. 53 (1940)
Romantic style. See Cohn for a brief description. Score and parts available for download from the International Music Score Library, http://imslp.org/wiki/Aubade,_Op.53_(Rhen%C3%A9-Baton,_Emmanuel)
Rhodes, Phillip (1940- )
Ensemble Etudes (1967) for woodwind quintet and string quartet or either separately.
New York, NY: American Composers Edition, 1967 /
New York: American Composers Alliance
Duration: 11:00 but variable.
Suite for Five Winds (1962)
New York: American Composers Alliance, 1977
12-tone work. 3 movements. Duration: 10:00. See also: http://www.prhodescomposer.com/
Ribeiro, Agnaldo (1943- )
Tempus I (1975)
Centro de Documentacao de Musica Contemporanea CDMC-Brasil
Duration: 10:45. Brazilian composer. See also Wikipedia.
Ricaud, Henri
Pastoral Suite (ca. 1962)
Capitaine Ricaud was chief of music at the Palace in Phnom Penh, Combodia in the 1960s and directed the Harmonie Royale. He wrote this quintet after hearing the New York Woodwind Quintet on their southeast Asian tour in 1962 and dedicated the work to them. Amy Likar wrote that the work is in the Baron Collection of the Library of Congress. Internet searches for Henri Ricaud come up blank.
Rietz, (August Wilhelm) Julius(1812-1877)
Konzertstück (Concertstück), Op. 41 for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and orchestra
Leipzig: C. G. Röder, 1873
Available for download from the International Music Score Library Project, https://imslp.org/
Rice, Thomas N. (1933-2000)
Fantasy
New York: Seesaw Music
Richards, Paul (1969- )
Woodwind Quintet, Ars Antiqua (1999)
TrevCo Music Publishing, 2007
Duration: 13:42. Recorded by the Baylor Woodwind Quintet. 2 movements: Calliope; Dirge and Fugue. See: http://www.paulrichardsmusic.com/ for info and recording.
Richardson, Dana (1953- )
Woodwind Quintet (2005)
Duration: 15:00. See: http://www.licamusic.org/?p=972 . See also: http://dana-richardson.org/
Richardson, Guy(1950- )
Portraits (2002, revised 2014)
Lancaster, UK: Phylloscopus Publications, http://www.phylloscopus.co.uk/
Flute doubles piccolo; oboe doubles English horn.
Richardson-Schulte, Abigail(1976- )
Emerge (2003)
Toronto: Canadian Music Centre
From the composer on the CMC website: This wind quintet was commissioned by the Festival of the Sound, in Parry Sound, Ontario, for a concert called Painted Sound. This piece is inspired by the painting Watermusic: The Fireflies Tribute by Wendy Hoffman. ¶ The painting itself is tranquil and serene yet also brimming with energy. I tried to bring out that sense of stillness with a feeling of suspended motion while allowing more active lines to emerge in the texture. The structure of the piece is linked to different layers of the painting. While looking at this work, I found myself visually sinking into the different layers, moving from the whole to focusing on its smallest parts. The painting has a vertical expanse of trees and is outlined by water and sky, creating a clear vertical limit. This sense of vertical, and the idea of looking at the whole, became the structural idea for the music. There is a recurring static texture of low bassoon and high flute to represent the painting as a whole. Lines emerge from within this texture to lead the music in a new direction, almost as if focusing on the different layers of the painting yet always returning to the whole. An interesting twist to the painting is that it is actually a reflection in the water. In essence, it is upside down. There are several moments in the music which pay tribute to this feature, as the high and low parts are switched around a central point. This piece aims to integrate the idea of the painting rather than a literal recreation of specific surface elements. The colour, texture, and mood of the painting, which is evocative of magic, all contribute to the music. Lines come out and disappear, giving the piece its descriptive title: emerge.
Richie, Lionel (1949- )
Hello (arr. Swan) (1984)
Still (arr. Swan)
Hialeah, FL: Columbia Pictures Publications
Richmond, Daniel
Sonata for Woodwind Quintet (2015)
Duration: 10:00. Movements: Grave; Tranquillo; Secco. From a studen composers recital at Western Illinois University.
Richter, Carol
Estonian Folk Songs
For woodwind quintet and soprano (in Estonian).
Richter de Rangenier, Peter (1930- )
Bläserquintett (2000)
Niederosterreichische Musikedition
Duration: 16:30. See also: http://www.mica.at/composerdb/ for contact info.
Richter-Herf, Franz(1920-1989)
Bläserquintett (1965)
Richter-Herf is an Austrian composer who also developed a microtonal “ekmelic” or “Ekmelische Music” system for a specialized organ, with 72 pitches per octave. That system was developed after he wrote this work, which might be a relief if you stumble across the score and parts. ¶ Do not confuse this composer with Franz Xaver Richter.
Rickard, Sylvia (1937- )
The Five Elements (1986)
Toronto: Canadian Music Center
Flute doubles on piccolo and alto, oboe doubles on English horn. Duration: 17:00. See also:http://www.sylviarickard.ca/
Ridderstrom, Bo (1937- )
Blaskvintett (1964)
Stockholm: Svensk Musik
Duration: 7:00.
Vastkustsk Svit (1989)
Stockholm: Svensk Musik
Duration: 8:00.
Řídký, Jaroslav (1897-1956)
Bläserquintett, Op. 41 (1945)
Hudebni Informacni Stredisko http://www.musicbase.cz/
Czech composer.
Ridout, Alan (1934-1996)
The Shippen (1990)
Ampleforth, Yorkshire: Emerson Edition, 1992
English composer.
Until the Breaking of the Day (In memory of Gordon Jacob) (1984)
Ampleforth, England: Emerson Edition, 1999
Duration: 5:30.
See Ridout’s The Ages of Man for quintet and piano.
Ridout, Godfrey (1918-1984)
Introduction and Allegro (1968) for violin, cello and woodwind quintet
Toronto: Canadian Music Centre
Duration: 8:00.
Riedel, Georg (1934- )
Dialoger (1974) (for woodwind quintet and jazz band)
Stockholm: Swedish Music Information Service (STIM), 1976
Duration: 20:00. Never to be confused with Georg Riedel (1676-1738).
Reflexionen (1974)
Stockholm: Swedish Music Information Service (STIM), 1976
Duration: 8:00.
Skriket (1982) for double woodwind quintet
Stockholm: Swedish Music Information Service (STIM)
Duration: 20:00.
Riedel, Matthew Rudolph
California Sweet (1994)
Written as part of a thesis/dissertation.
Riedlbauch, Vaclav (1947- )
Allegri e Pastorali (1976)
Praha: Cesky Hudebni Fond (Czech Music Foundation)
Hudebni Informacni Stredisko http://www.musicbase.cz/
Duration: 11:00. Recorded on Supraphon.
Wind Quintet No. 2 “Soukorme Valky” [“Private Fights”] (1995-99)
Riegger, Wallingford (1885-1961)
Wind Quintet, Op. 51 (1952)
Mainz: Ars Viva Verlag, 1952 / Schott /
New York: Associated Music Publishers
Wien: Ars Viva Verlag Herman Scherchen, 1952
A copy of the manuscript is in the Indiana University Music Library, Bloomington, Indiana. Duration: 7:00. Flute doubles piccolo. See Cohn, The Literature of Chamber Music, for more info. A recording by the New York Woodwind Quintet is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJhU7xEsae4 .
Riegger’s Concerto for Piano and Woodwind Quintet is the more dramatic work and probably more frequently performed.
Ries, Ferdinand (1784-1838)
Cradle Song, Lullaby (arr. Bill Schuetter)
Imagine Music; see also http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
Duration: 2:10.
Rieti, Vittorio (1898-1994)
Woodwind Quintet (1957)
New York: Associated Music Publishers 1963
4 movements: Allegro moderato; Allegretto; Sostenuto; Allegro con brio Duration: 17:00.
Arthur Cohn, The Literature of Chamber Music, calls this “Pleasurable, diverting wind quintet music, of the French type (i.e. by Ibert, Milhaud, and Françaix).”
Silografie, cinque pezzi per legni (Woodcuts, five pieces for woodwinds) (1967)
New York: General Music Pub. Co.,
Boston: Boston Music 1968
Movements: Bourrée; Sarabande; Scherzino; Siciliana; Cotillon.
Cohn calls this “gentle” and “delightful.”
Concerto (for) Wind Quintet (woodwind quintet and orchestra) (1923)
Vienna: Universal Edition, 1924
Different sources list the first performance of this work as Prague (May 31, 1924) or Vienna (1924).
See Rieti’s Sonata à Cinque for winds and piano.
Rietz, (August Wilhelm) Julius (1812-1877)
Quintett
Leipzig: F. Hofmeister
German composer and conductor. His style, generally, is described as Mendelssohnian.
also:
Konzertstück (Idyllische Scene), Op. 41 (1870) for solo woodwind quintet and orchestra
Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1876
Leipzig: Robert Seitz, 1873
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic, 1992 (piano reduction of the orchestra plus solo parts, not the orchestra parts)
Solo and orchestra parts (but not the score) for the Konzertstück are available for download from the International Music Score Library Project. The composer also created a piano reduction, so it is sometimes listed as a Sextet. (When in the work’s page on the IMSLP, click on the “Arrangements and Transcriptions” tab to download the piano reduction.) Three movements. Apparently, the orchestra parts were lost for a while, so a reconstruction of the orchestra was created in 1997 from the piano score, available from Bärenreiter-Alkor. So there are two orchestra versions. (Make sure you know which one you are using.)
Rihm, Wolfgang (1952- )
Quintett für Bläser (2003)
Wien: Universal Edition, 2017
Uses Clarinet in A. Duration: 23:00. Movements: Adagio-Moderato; Fetzen; Valse Lente; Cantabile. Commissioned by the Lucerne Festival. Dedicated to the Ensemble Wien-Berlin. Premiered in Lucerne, September 2013. A short recording of the second movement is available on the Zephyros Winds website.
Riisager, Knudåge (1897-1974)
Musik für Bläserkvintet, Op. 16 (1925)
Kobenhavn: Samfundet til Udgivelse af Dansk Musik, 1997
Frederiksberg, Denmark: Edition-S, 1997 (C. F. Peters and Ricordi, distributors)
Duration: 10:35. The premiere performance was in 1928 in Copenhagen, unfortunately the resource I used doesn’t mention who performed it. Edition-S has a recording of the work on its website: http://www.edition-s.dk/music/knudaage-riisager/musik-for-blaeserkvintet (also on SoundCloud). The ensemble is unlisted, but probably the Scandinavian Wind Quintet (Mads Johansen, flute; Klas Sjöblom, oboe; Jesper Helmuth Madsen, clarinet; Ola Nilsson, horn; and Peter Andersen, bassoon). It is also available on YouTube https://youtu.be/VFTURTREgA0 .
See the article about Knudåge Riisager in our Roaring Twenties Woodwind Quintet Series.
Wind Quintet (1921)
The only listing for a 1921 woodwind quintet by Riisager I have seen is in Grove Music Online. If it exists, it probably was a student work from when Riisinger was studying composition in Paris with Albert Roussel and Paul le Flem. Even if it was a student work, however, it is interesting that Riisinger was interested in the woodwind quintet before Nielsen, Hindemith, Schoenberg, and other much more famous composers made the woodwind quintet a mainstream ensemble for new ideas.
also:
Divertimento, Op. 9 (1925) for wind quintet and string quartet (1925)
Copenhagen: Edition-S, 2014
Allegro sereno; Notturno; Allegretto leggiero; Allegro sciolto. Duration:19:00. For flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello. Recorded by the Skandinaviske Blaesekvintet (Scandinavian Wind Quintet, with Mads Johansen, flute; Klas Sjöblom, oboe; Jesper Helmuth Madsen, clarinet; Ola Nilsson, horn; and Peter Andersen, bassoon) with the Den Kongelige Danske Strygekvartet (Lars Bjørnkaer and Per Lund Madsen, violins; Dimitri Golovanov, viola; Ingemar Brantelid, cello).
This delightful work begins with an Allegro sereno (Serene Allegro) which starts out like a traditional neo-classical work, similar to Carl Nielsen’s Quintet, but then begins piling up some dissonances as the movement continues to make things more challenging. The second movement is unexpectedly non-dissonant. The Allegro leggiero is simply delightful (yes, that word keeps coming up). The finale seems to set each of the two ensembles in opposition for much of the movement: the strings start a nice string-y melody, which is interrupted by the wind sections; then the two switch roles. At the end there is a momentary chorale section for the entire ensemble, a brief coda where the two chase each other then ends with 3 tutti chords. A wonderful work, but you need two outstanding ensembles (woodwind quintet and string quartet) to make it work. [ Andrew Brandt ]
Sinfonietta pour huit instruments a vent, Op. 7 (1924) for flute, clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, and 2 trombones
Niedernhausen: Edition Kemel, 2008
Riley, Ann Marion (1928- )
Wind Quintet
Riley, Dennis (1943-1999)
Masques (1982)
New York, N.Y.: C.F. Peters, 1987, 1988
Duration: 9:00.
Riley, John
Suite for Woodwind Quintet (1957)
Performed by the Dorian Wind Quintet in 1971.
Rimbault, Edward Francis (1816-1876)
Arrangements
Oh Happy Day (arr. Thomas H. Graf)
http://the-hit-factory.com/ See also http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
Rimmer, John (1939- )
Composition 2, for wind quintet and electronic sounds
Wellington, N.Z.: Waiteata Press, 1990 1972
For flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and tape. New Zealand composer. Duration: 12:40.
Rimša, Linas (1969- )
4Ten (2013) for double woodwind quintet
Duration: 6:00. See also:
http://www.mic.lt/en/classical/persons/info/121?ref=%2Fen%2Fclassical%2Fpersons%2F41
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (also Rimskij-Karsakov, Nikolaj) (1844-1908)
arrangements
The Flight of the Bumblebee, scherzo from the opera, “The Legend of Tsar Saltan” (1902) (arr. George J. Trinkaus)
New York: Kay and Kay Music Publ. Corp., 1934
The Flight of the Bumble Bee (arr. Bill Holcombe)
Trenton, NJ: Musicians Publications, 1991
The Flight of the Bumble Bee (arr. Atkins)
Los Angeles: Western International Music
The Flight of the Bumble Bee (arr. Tustin)
Ft. Lauderdale: Spratt Music Publishers
The Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. Steven L. Rosenhaus)
Boca Raton, Florida: Masters Music Publications, Inc, 1996
The Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. ?)
Eldorado (see Trevco Music Publishing)
“El Vuela del Moscardon” in Spanish.
The Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. Walter)
Paris: Billaudot
Flight of the Bumblebee (arr. Andrey Rubtsov)
See the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet’s commerce page at https://vk.com/smartmusicshop
Flight of the Bumblebee (Hummelflug, Zwischenspiel aus der Oper Das Märchen vom Zaren Saltan) (arr. Wolfgang Renz)
Duration: 1:30. Website / Contact Wolfgang Renz: http://wolfgang-renz-notendruck.de/ .
“Alborada” from Capriccio Espagnol (arr. Lin, Yizhi Ernest)
Singapore: Oriole Publishing, https://oriole-publishing.myshopify.com/
An arrangement of the first movement of Capriccio Espagnol (erroneously spelled Capriccio Espanol in this printing). Features the clarinet. Also available through https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/ .
Dance of the Buffoons from “The Snow Maiden” (1881) (arr. Bill Holcombe)
W. Trenton, NJ: Musicians Publications, 1989 /
Chesapeake, VA: Bill Holcombe’s Musicians Pub’s (http://billholcombe.com/)
Le vol du bourdon: pour quintette à vent (arr. David Walter)
Paris: G. Billaudot, 1986
Set of opera excerpts arranged for quintet.
March from Tsar Saltan (arr. Dan Willett)
Recorded by the Missouri Quintet. Duration: 4:33.
“Procession of the Nobles” from Mlada (arr. Bill Holcombe & Bill Holcombe, Jr.)
Chesapeake, VA: Bill Holcombe’s Musicians Pub’s (http://billholcombe.com/)
Scheherazade, 1st movement excerpts (arr. Keith McDaniel)
San Antonio, Tex.: RBC Publications
Scheherazade, 2nd movement excerpts (arr. Keith McDaniel)
San Antonio, Tex.: RBC Publications
Scheherazade, 3rd movement excerpts (arr. Keith McDaniel
San Antonio, Tex.: RBC Publications, 1996
Oboe doubles on English horn, Clarinet parts in A or B-flat.
Scheherazade, 4th movement Excerpts (arr. Keith McDaniel)
San Antonio, Tex.: RBC Publications
Scheherazade (arr. Shenoll Tokaj)
Published by the arranger, 2007
Available for download on free-scores.com, http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=41774
The Tokaj arrangement is an extremely abbreviated version of a couple of themes from Scheherazade. (The entire score barely reaches 8 pages.) Apparently written for student quintets. Anybody who knows the work, though, will likely be disappointed.[ Andrew Brandt ]
Scheherazade (arr. Johnathan Russell)
Performed by the Imani Winds. See their recital video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOqT51Ll1Zk starting at the 21:40 minute mark. See also the composer’s website: http://jonrussellmusic.com/composition/ . Duration: 20:35.
Theme from Scheherazade (arr. Lars Melin)
From the arranger, but contact info not given
Variations for Oboe and Wind Ensemble (solo oboe and double woodwind quintet) (arr. Willem Luyt)
Siegertshofen, Germany: Floricor Editions http://www.floricor-editions.com/
For fans of double wind quintets, this features a solo oboist, 2 flutes (2nd doubling on piccolo), oboe, English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns. The original work was for solo oboe and military band. The edition appears to include a piano reduction of the ensemble.
See Rimsky-Korsakov’s Quintet for winds and piano.
Rinck, Johann Christian Heinrich (1770-1846)
Quintet, from the works of J. C. H. Rinck (transcribed by Edgar L. Barrow)
Detroit, Mich., Camara Music Pub. 1960
Cor Publishing Co.
Woodwind Quintet
New York: McGinnis & Marx
Possibly another edition of the above work.
Ringbom, Nils-Eric (1907-1988)
Sestetto (Wind Sextet) (1951) for oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn
Helsinki: Suomalaisen musilikin tiedotuskeskus – Finnish Music Information Centre
Movements: Introduzione e fughetta scherzosa; Adagio molto tranquillo; Metamorfosi. Duration: 14:00. Finnish composer. See Arthur Cohn, for brief description.
Rink, Shelley
Zoo Tango Rag (2014)
Studio City, CA: Last Resort Music Publishing, Inc. https://www.lastresortmusic.com/
Ripper, João Guilherme (1959- )
Romaria (1985)
Edições Onheama (this might be the composer’s own press)
Duration: 5:00. Premiered by the Quinteto Villa-Lobos in 1987.
Visões da Ausência (1993)
Edições Onheama (this might be the composer’s own press)
Duration: 10:00. Commissioned by the Solaris Woodwind Quintet, who performed it in 1993 at the 10;a Bienal da Música Brasileira Contemporânea at the Sala Cecília Meireles.
also:
Concerto a Cinco for woodwind quintet and string orchestra (2012)
Ham Lake, Minnesota: Jeanné Music Publications, 2013.
Commissioned by the Quinteto Villa-Lobos, and premiered June 27, 2012 with Orquestra Petrobras Sinfônica in Brazil. Duration: 23:00.
Risinger, Karel (1920-2008)
Kleine Suite (1960)
Czech musicologist and composer.
Ristic, Milan (1908-1982)
Quintett (1936)
Ritchie, Anthony(1960- )
Wind Quintet, Op. 142 (2009)
Order from the composer’s website: http://www.anthonyritchie.co.nz/
Duration: 14:00.Movements: I. Chill winds from the south and west; II. By the Dry Cardrona; III. A Procession of Clouds. Commissioned by Chamber Music New Zealand for performance by Zephyr.
According to program notes on the composer’s website: This work evokes scenes from central Otago in the South Island of New Zealand, with additional inspiration coming from the poetry of Brian Turner. Both challenging and thoughtful, this piece was written for Zephyr for their Chamber Music NZ tour in 2009, and recorded by Radio NZ Concert. ¶ This Wind Quintet was commissioned by Chamber Music New Zealand Trust to be performed by Zephyr. The funds for the commission were provided by Creative New Zealand. The performers in Zephyr are: Bridget Douglas, flute, Robert Orr, oboe, Phil Green, clarinet in B flat, Ed Allen, horn in F, and Robert Weeks, bassoon. The Wind Quintet was premiered during the Chamber Music NZ tour, June 28-July 12. … [The movement titles] come from lines and titles by NZ poets Brian Turner (I and III, both in the book Timeless Land) and James K. Baxter (II). The Wind Quintet is semi-programmatic, and is inspired by associations with Central Otago, in New Zealand’s South Island. Sections I and III reflect on the influence of the weather, while the middle section uses a New Zealand folk song as a basis for the material. By the Dry Cardrona was originally a poem by Baxter, written in 1956 and was set to music by James McNeish and Don Toms. Numerous folk singers have adopted it, including Martin Curtis, to whom I owe my first experience of this marvelous song, on the album Gin and Raspberry. Part of the tune is subject to variations in this middle section.
Ritter, Jorge(1957- )
Evocación (2010)
Commissioned by the Quinteto de Alientos de la Ciudad de México (Mexico City Woodwind Quintet).
Rivers, Joseph (LaRoche)
Three Daydreams
New York: Seesaw Music, 1990
See also: http://www.josephrivers.com/
Rivier, Jean (1896-1987)
Capriccio pour quintette à vent (1972)
Paris: G. Billaudot
Duration: 11:50.
Robb, Magnus (1970- )
Lios Mor: For Nine Players (extended woodwind quintet, string quartet)
Oboe doubles on English horn, clarinet doubles on bass clarinet. Inspired by the island of Lismore.
Robert, George
Woodwind Quintet (1959)
Robertson, Ernest John
Miller of Dee Variations, Op. 48
Published by the composer.
Duration: 7:00. Available on the International Music Score Library Project under a Creative Commons license, http://imslp.org/wiki/Miller_of_Dee_Variations,_Op.48_(Robertson,_Ernest_John)
Robinson, Bill R.
The Elements of Wind and Wood (1990, rewritten 2004)
Score and parts available for free download: http://billrobinsonmusic.com/ Movements: Prelude, Moderato latino; Relaxed, Don’t Run Out of Breath. MP3’s of a rehearsal available on the site.
Robinson, ?
Allegro Maestoso
RBC Music; see also http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
There’s just something wrong with the marketing department of any music publisher which cannot even take the time to list their composers’ first names. [Andrew Brandt]
Robles Fernandez, Ivan Octavio(1984- )
Pequeña Suite (Little Suite)
Published by the composer
Available on free-scores.com, http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=27398 . Appears to be a work for students.
Rocha Cardoso, Lindembergue
SEE Cardoso, Lindembergue Rocha
Rocha Viana, Alfredo da
SEE Pixinguinha
Rochberg, George (1918-2005)
To the Dark Wood (Music for Woodwind Quintet) (1985)
Malvern, Pennsylvania: Theodore Presser Co., 1986 https://www.presser.com/
Duration: 15:30. The first performance was in New South Wales (Australia) on October 3, 1986 by the Canberra Wind Soloists..
With only one reading, it appeared to be an interesting work worth programming. [Andrew Brandt]
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Cheltenham Concerto for a small orchestra (1958) woodwind quintet, trumpet, trombone, string quartet
Duration: 15:00. Commissioned by Cheltenham Art Center, Pennsylvania, USA.
Rockmaker, Jody (1961- )
Kokopelli Dreams (1999)
New York: American Composers Alliance
Duration: 18:00. Premiered by Citywinds in San Francisco. See also the composer’s website: http://www.jodyrockmaker.com/ .
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Quarter for Twelve (1991) for woodwind quintet, bass clarinet, percussion and strings
Rodgers, Richard (1902-1979)
“The March of Siamese Children” from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I (1951) (arr. Arthur Harris)
New York: Williamson Music, 196 /
New York: McGinnis & Marx
Sound of Music (1959) (arr Bill Holcombe)
Boca Raton, FL: Masters Music Publications
“My Funny Valentine” from Babes in Arms (arr. Jens Luckwaldt)
See Niedernhausen, Germany: Noten Roehr
Rodríguez Peris, Martín José.
Diálogos (1983)
Available under a Creative Commons license from the International Music Score Library Project. http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
Duration: 8:00.
Rodriguez, Robert (Xavier) (1946- )
Plaisir d’Amour (1982)
Alhambra
Duration: 5:00.
Rodriguez Peris, Martín José
Di´logos (1983)
Duration: 8:00. Available under a Creative Commons license from the International Music Score Library Project: http://imslp.org/wiki/Di%C3%A1logos_(Rodr%C3%ADguez_Peris,_Mart%C3%ADn_Jos%C3%A9)
Roe, David William
Autumn in Retrospect
Delevan, New York: Kendor Music
Roe, Eileen Betty (1930- )
Betty’s Bounce for Wind Quintet
Thames Publishers
English composer. See also: http://www.bettyroe.com/
Roetscher, Konrad (1910-1979)
Quintett, Op. 41.
Berlin, Bote & Bock, 1964
Roger, Kurt George (1895-1966)
Suite for Five Wind Instruments, Op. 40 (1941)
Duration: 10:00. Movements: Chorale; Invention; Variations on a play-tune for a child. First performed by The Osborne Wind Ensemble of Belfast in 1965. Manuscript is held by The Kurt Roger Trust, c/o The Northern Bank, Ltd., 49/51 University Rd., Belfast BT7 1ND, Northern Ireland (at least, as of 1970).
Roger, Miquel (1954- )
Quintet de Vent Num. 1 (Wind Quintet No. 1)
Sabadell: La ma de guido, 1996
Rogers, John E. (1938- )
Rotational Arrays (1966)
Brunswick, Me.: Bowdoin College Music Press, 1971
Rogister, Jean (1879-1964)
Quintette (1947)
Rogojină, Paul(1944- )
„Sfânta Fecioară cu pruncul” (Holy Virgin with Baby) (1991)
Rohe, Robert Kenneth (1916-2013)
Quintet (1957)
Manuscript: Library of Congress
Suite (1970)
Rohrer, Thomas P.
“Full Score” for Double Woodwind Quintet (2011)
Logan, Utah: Pershelle Publications, 2011.
Written for the twentieth anniversary of the Logan Canyon Winds, Utah State University, June 2011. First performed by the Logan Canyon Winds and the university’s student quintet, Caine Woodwind Quintet. In 5 continuous movements: Promenade, Dialogue, Celebration, [Ground], Fruition. Recording available at http://www.usu.edu/music/ensembles/band/USUbands/html_pages_folder/TR%20Compositions%20Folder/TR%20Compositions%20Full%20Score.html
Roig-Francoli, Miguel A. (1953- )
Concierto en do para doble quinteto y piano (Concerto for piano, wind quintet, and strings in C Major)
Madrid: Fundacion Juan March, 1982.
Flute doubles on piccolo, oboe doubles on English horn, clarinet doubles on bass clarinet. Also includes 2 violins, viola, cello and bass. Duration: 10:40.
Roikjer, Kjell (1901-1999)
Kvintet, Op. 42 (1950)
Kobenhavn, Skandinavisk Musikforlag 1957
Duration: 18:00.
Rojas, Camilo
Woodwind Quintet (2000)
Available from the composer: 3 Bristol Lane, Hadley, MA 01035, USA (may be old address).
Reviewer Ron Klimko says “this is a very rhythmic, hard driving single movement work in three distinct sections of allegro, lento, and vivo…. The outer movements here feature a lot of meter changes generally and would require a fairly advanced quintet to negotiate.” (The Double Reed, Vol. 24, No. 4)
Rojko, Uros (1954- )
Ottoki, a Cycle for woodwind quintet (1993)
Milano: Ricordi
Duration: 15:00. Slovene composer. World Premiere in Trossingen, 1991 by Ensemble Aventure. See http://home.arcor.de/uros.rojko/english/e_rojko.html
Diapento (die Wand–die Wut, The Wall–The Rage)
Manuscript. Contact the composer: https://www.uros-rojko.de/
World Premiere November, 2010 by the quintet Artvento, for the Slovenian Composers Association.
also:
Zvokasok for woodwind quintet and ensemble (2016-2017)
World Premiere November 26, 2017 by the SLOWIND woodwind quintet and Ensemble Contrechamps.
Music for 12 (1988) for woodwind quintet, trumpet, trombone, timpani, violin, viola, cello, bass
See Rojko’s Septet for quintet, piano and double bass.
Roland, Claude-Robert (1935- )
Prelude, Fugue et Rondo, Op. 40 (1967)
Bruxelles: Le Centre Belge de Documentation Musicale (CeBeDeM)
Duration: 9:00.
Rollin, Robert Leon (1947- )
Suite for Woodwind Quintet on a Theme from The Music of Erich Zann (1970)
New York: Seesaw Music Corp., 1975
Concertino No. 3 for woodwind quintet, percussion and double bass
Published by the composer, 1986
Rolnick, Neil (1947- )
Ambos Mundos (2004) for woodwind quintet with live digital processing (requires computer)
New York: American Music Center
Duration: 8:00. Written for the Quintet of the Americas. http://www.neilrolnick.com/
Rolón (Alcaraz), José(1886-1945)
El Sembrador (1932) for woodwind quintet and voice (?)
In the repertoire of the Quinteto de Alientos de la Ciudad de México (Mexico City Woodwind Quintet).
Romanovsky, Erich (1929-1993)
Bläserquintett (1967)
manuscript
Duration: 14:00. Recorded on Preiser Records. See http://www.mica.at/composerdb/
also:
Nonett (1964) for woodwind quintet and string quartet (violin, viola, cello, double bass)
manuscript
Duration: 19:00.
Romberg, Andreas Jakob (1767-1821)
8 Quintette (but see note)
A listing of these as woodwind quintets appears to be a mistaken reference to various other quintets, including a clarinet quintet, 6 flute quintets and at least one string quintet. The flute quintets and other works are available for downloading from the the International Music Score Library Project, http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Romberg,_Andreas [Andrew Brandt]
Romeo, Jonathan (ca. 1965- )
Light (1992)
Richmond, Va.: International Opus, 1996
Duration: 6:00.
Romppanen, Ari (1974- )
Woodcuts (2000-2001/2006)
Helsinki: Music Finland http://musicfinland.fi/en/
PDF of score available to download.
Rønnes, Kristian Oma (1991- )
Wind Quintet No. 1 (2011)
Oslo: NB noter (Contemporary Norwegian sheet music)
See also: http://www.kristianomaronnes.com/
Röntgen, Julius (1855-1932)
Second Serenade (1928) for woodwind quintet
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic, 1988;
Manhattan, Kan.: Prairie Dawg Press, 2011
Duration: 16:00. Movements: 1. Con moto; 2. Un poco sostenuto; 3. Animato; 4. Lento 5. Allegro Recorded by the Linos-Ensemble. The Dutch Music Institute maintains a website dedicated to Julius Röntgen at http://www.juliusrontgen.nl/en/ in both Dutch and English.
See the article about Julius Röntgen in our Roaring Twenties Woodwind Quintet Series.
Scherzo (1928)
Manhattan, Kan.: Prairie Dawg Press (now available through Imagine Music Publishing. See J. W. Pepper online, https://www.jwpepper.com
According to Bruce Gbur, both of these works were dedicated to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, but this one includes a contrapuntal display of excerpts from the U.S. National Anthem. It’s not clear whether the composer ever sent the works to Coolidge, though.
also:
First Serenade in A Major, Op. 14 (1877) for flute, oboe, clarinet, 2 bassoons and 2 horns
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1878
Siegertshofen, Germany: Floricor Editions http://www.floricor-editions.com/
Edition Silvertrust, http://www.editionsilvertrust.com
Duration: 31:00. Movements: I. Allegro tranquillo; II. Scherzo Allegro; III. Andante con espressione; IV. Allegro molto vivace. Recorded by the Linos-Ensemble. Score and parts derived from the original edition are available for download from the International Music Score Library Project, https://imslp.org . A recording by the Viotta Ensemble is available on YouTube, starting with the first movement at https://youtu.be/9PexmyF_6hE?feature=shared .
See also Röntgen’s work for winds and piano.
Roos, Robert de (1907-1976)
Incontri (1966)
Amsterdam: Donemus, 1966 /
New York, C. F. Peters, 1966
Flute doubles on piccolo. Duration: 10:00.
See his Sextuor for piano and winds.
Root, George Frederick(1820-1895)
Civil War Medley No. 2 (arr. Gary Mosse) for double woodwind quintet
From the arranger.
A suite of songs by George Root. Duration: 3:30.
Root, Thomas
Serenade (2000)
FJHmusic, http://www.fjhmusic.com/
Duration: 6:45. 3 movements.
Rootham, Cyril (Bradley) (1875-1938)
Septet (1930) for woodwind quintet, viola and harp
English composer.
Ropartz, Joseph-Guy Marie (1864-1955)
Deux Pièces pour quintette à vent (1924)
Paris: A. Durand & Cie., 1926
Available from the International Music Score Library Project. http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page .
Movements: Lent; Vif. Duration: 9:45. In 1978 is was recorded by the Boehm Quintette for the Orion Label on LP, and later by the Danish Wind Quintet on their 1998 CD.
See the article about Joseph-Guy Marie Ropartz in our Roaring Twenties Woodwind Quintet Series.
Roper, Harrison(1932?- )
Aubade & Gigue (1984?)
Green Lane, Pennsylvania: Ridge Valley Music, 1993
2 Enigma Chorales
Green Lane, Pennsylvania: Ridge Valley Music, 1993
also:
Prelude & Scherzo for woodwind quintet and trumpet
Green Lane, Pennsylvania: Ridge Valley Music, 1993
Roque Alsina, Carlos (1941- )
A Letter (1976)
Milano: Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, 1977
For flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, and bassoon, each with a microphone operated by an “on-off” foot-switch. Duration: 13:00.
Rorich, Karl (or Carl) (1869-1941)
Quintet in E Minor, Op. 58 (probably 1910)
Amsterdan: Edition Compusic, 1992 /
Leipzig, Berlin: J. H. Zimmermann, 1921 /
Bradfield, Berkshire, England: Rosewood Publications
An early printing of the Zimmermann edition incorrectly lists this as Op. 38. Movements: I. Langsam und ausdrucksvoll – Lustig und übermutig; II. Sehr langsam und mit tiefster Erinnerung; III. Gemächlich, aber mit Humor; IV. Etwas langsam (wie in trauriger Erinnerung). Duration: 16:00. The Neue Zeitschrift für Musik of 5 January 1911 reported a Weimar performance of a wind quintet by Rorich in the previous year. [Google Translate: “In the first concert of the local brass band, a lovely quintet (manuscript) by Karl Rorich received a very friendly reception.”] Presumably that is this work. The Sibley Music Library reports that this quintet was performed at the Eastman School of Music (in Rochester, New York) in 1925.¶ Score and parts are also available for download from the International Music Score Library Project: http://imslp.org/wiki/Wind_Quintet,_Op.58_(Rorich,_Karl) . An alternative source to download these parts is from URResearch at http://hdl.handle.net/1802/7042.¶ A recording of a woodwind quintet of members of the Nürnberger Symphoniker of just the final movement is available for listening on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Cnc12CCmVqM
Although it’s dangerous to make conclusions about a work after listening to only one movement, the finale does reveal the Quintet in E minor to be of a late Romantic style. This movement, at least, shares themes and motives polyphonically among all the players, with somewhat thick scoring — less transparent writing than French works, such as Taffenel’s quintet. The movement ends with a lively, canonic tarantella. This might be a good find for woodwind quintets looking to explore the late Romantic tradition of quintet literature. [ Andrew Brandt ]
Ros, Mario (1963- )
Pneuma (1997)
Duration: 12:00. See: http://www.webcom.com/musics/pardo.html . Performed by the Quinteto Zaragoza. Catalonian composer.
Rosa, Clotilde (1930-2017)
Frequencia 94.4 (1994) for woodwind quintet, trumpet, violin, and viola
Composer’s full name was: Maria Clotilde Belo de Carvalho Rosa Franco.
Rosanovic, Nikola (1955- )
The Golden Canon – for Woodwind Quintet (1984)
See also: http://www.nikolaresanovic.com/ . Composer teaches at the University of Akron in Ohio, USA. Recorded by Solaris Wind Quintet on Capstone Records.
Rosas-Fernandes, Maria Helena
See Fernandes, Maria Helena Rosas
Rosaria, Danielle(1982- )
Wind Quintet No. 1, Story of the Tree Seed (2015)
Score only available under a Creative Commons license from the International Music Score Library Project. http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page
Duration: 11:00. 4 Movements: Mountain Village – Allegro Moderato; The Gift – Andante; Perseverance – Vivace; The Tree – Adagio. This work is based on a children’s short story also written by the composer. See https://daniellerosariaviolinist.com/about/ for contact info for parts and the story.
According to the composer, “This piece is based on an original fairy tale about a young girl who lives high in the mountains in a village. There are no trees there. She is given the responsibility of growing the tree seed even though her friends don’t understand what she is doing. It is a story about dedication and patience.”
Roselle, Lars-Erik (1944-2005)
Five to Five, Suite for woodwind and brass quintets
Svensk Music (SMIC)
For flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba. Movements: I. Marcia; II. Punti; III. Melodia; IV. Colore; V. Frammenti; VI. Cadenza; VII. Marcia.
Roseman, Ronald (1933-2000)
Woodwind Quintet (1986)
New York: American Composers Alliance
Duration: 17:00. Recorded by Soni Ventorum for the Musical Heritage Society.
Woodwind Quintet (1986)
Rhinebeck, N.Y.: Phantom Press: Soundspells Productions, 1989
Duration: 16:00. Movements: Reflections on a question; Romanza; Scherzo; Chorale prelude.
The two listings above may be for the same piece.
Suite of Renaissance Pieces
Boston: E. C. Schirmer Music, 1980
also:
Double Quintet for Woodwinds and Brass, for woodwind and brass quintets
Movements: I. Adagio–Allegro; II. Energico; III. Adagio mesto; IV. Chorale-Fantasy. Duration: 21:13. Commissioned by the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Recorded by the New York Woodwind Quintet and the American Brass Quintet for New World Records.
Rosen, Robert J. (1956- )
Soundings: Songs for Parry Sound (1993)
“For woodwind quintet and any gathering of community musicians possible.” Duration: 16:00.
Rosenberg, Hilding C. (1892-1985)
Kvintet (1959/1968)
Stockholm: Edition Suecia, Distribution: Ehrlingforlagen, 1959 1973 /
Stockholm: STIMS Informationscentral for Svensk Musik
Flute doubles on piccolo, oboe doubles on English horn. Duration: 22:00. Recorded by the Amadé Quintet on Daphne Records, Naxos.
Rosenboom, David (1947- )
In The Beginning III (1979)
Frog Peak Music, Box 1052, Lebanon, New Hampshire 03766 USA www.frogpeak.org
See also: http://www.davidrosenboom.com/ .
Rosengren, Frank (1921- )
Quintet (1949)
Stockholm: STIMS Informationscentral for Svensk Musik
Rosenhaus, Steven L. (1952- )
Woodwind Quintet (1980)
American Music Center
Woodwind Quintet No. 2 (1989)
Flute doubles on piccolo. Duration: 12:00.
Rosenthal, Dean
I Think So, Too (2009/2012)
Performed by the Washington Square Winds
Rosenthal, Felix (1887-1936)
Quintet in E-flat [Major]
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic, 1992
Rosenthal, Laurence (1926- )
Commedia
London: Chappell, 1964
Movements: Colombina; Brighella; Leandro and Isabella; Scapino. Duration: 10:45. See also: http://www.laurencerosenthal.com/
Rosenthal, Manuel (1904-2003)
Scarlattiana
Aeolus (1970), Suite for woodwind quintet and string orchestra
Paris: Société des Editions Jobert
Rosetti, Francesco Antonio (Franz Anton Rössler) (1746-1792 or 1750-1792?)
Quintet in E-flat Major, Murray RWV B6 (circa 1780?)
Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser, 1962 /
Basel: Edition Kneusslin, in USA and Canada, C. F. Peters, agent, 1961 /
Vienna: Universal Editions /
Winterthur, Schweiz: Amadeus, 2001 /
Trillenium Music Company
Duration: 10:00. This quintet was originally written for English horn instead of French horn; it is performed with either. According to Barbera Secrist-Schmedes, in Wind Chamber Music, the C. F. Peters version takes some of the more florid English horn parts and redistributes them to other instruments. Original (autograph?) parts are stored in the Oettingen-Wallerstein collection at the University of Augsburg.
Because this work was scored with English horn, instead of French horn, it is not truly a woodwind quintet in the modern sense of the word. However, the work appears to be one of the first quintets written solely for mixed winds and, for that alone, woodwind players (at least) should give thanks. Listed below are other works by Rosetti for double woodwind quintet which reflect the greater popularity of the Harmoniemusik style of writing for winds rather than a smaller chamber music style. With the Quintet in E-flat, we are very close (yet so far) from the creation of the woodwind quintet as a permanent musical ensemble. [ Andrew Brandt ]
Parthia No. 3 in D (arr. by the Philadelphia Quintet)
Also:
Parthia in D Major (1784), K. II, 14, for dectet
Siegertshofen, Germany: Floricor Editions http://www.floricor-editions.com/
For 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 1 clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, double bass. Movements: I. Grave-Vivace; II. Menuetto moderato; III. Romance; IV. Rondo. Duration: 12:00.
Parthia in D Major (ca. 1780), K. II, 11 for double woodwind quintet and double bass.
Siegertshofen, Germany: Floricor Editions http://www.floricor-editions.com/
Movements:
I. Adagio-Allegro Molto; II. Menuetto moderato; III. Andante; IV. Rondo-Allegretto. Duration: 14:00.
Parthia in F Major for double woodwind quintet
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic
Manuscript available at Oettingen-Wallerstein’sche Hofbibliothek, Ms 600.
Parthia in F (RWV B 21) for double woodwind quintet and Violone
Leipzig: Robert Ostermeyer, 2006
The violone part would normally be performed by a modern double bass. This work is part of the Oettingen-Wallersteiner Harmoniemusik collection. With different cataloguing systems, it’s impossible to tell if this edition is for the same work as the Compusic edition above.
Parthia in F Major (1780) for double woodwind quintet
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic /
Manuscript available at Oettingen-Wallerstein’sche Hofbibliothek, Ms 599.
Parthia pour la chasse in F Major (1785) for double woodwind quintet plus 3rd horn and optional double bass
Leipzig: Robert Ostermayer, 2003
The violone (double bass) and 2nd bassoon share the same part. Manuscript available at Oettingen-Wallerstein’sche Hofbibliothek, Ms 597. This manuscript has been scanned and is available for download from the International Music Score Library Project at http://imslp.org/wiki/Partita_in_F_major,_M.B18_(Rosetti,_Antonio) . The quality of the manuscript may vary, though.
Parthia pour la chasse in F Major (1780) for double woodwind quintet plus 3rd horn and double bass
Manuscript available at Oettingen-Wallerstein’sche Hofbibliothek, Ms 598.
Parthia pour la chasse in F Major (1785) for double woodwind quintet plus 3rd horn and optional double bass
Leipzig: Robert Ostermayer, 2003
This is likely a modern edition of one of the two previous manuscript listings, but it’s unclear which one is the source of this edition.
Rosinský, Jozef (1897-1973)
Dve suity (1940) for woodwind quintet
Dychové kvinteto (1941)
Rosner, Arnold (1945-2013)
Woodwind Quintet, Op. 26 (1964, rev. 1998)
See also: http://www.arnoldrosnermusic.com/
Rosiak, Michal (1977- )
Toccata for Woodwind Quintet
Mitchelton, Qld, Australia: Midoros, 2011
See also: http://www.mrflute.com.au/ .
The Ultimate Book for Woodwind Quintet (Vol. I)
Available on the Michal Rosiak’s website: http://www.mrflute.com.au/
Includes:
W. A. Mozart – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
J. Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 5
J. Williams – Jurassic Park ( two movements )
J. Williams – Schindler’s List
J. Williams – Theme from E.T.
A. Menken – Beauty and the Beast
A. Menken – Colors of the wind
M. Jackson – I just can’t stop loving you
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
M. Rosiak – Toccata
The Ultimate Book for Woodwind Quintet, Vol. II
Available on the Michal Rosiak’s website: http://www.mrflute.com.au/
Includes “10 custom arranged pieces”:
Adler – Tango
Matita – Chinese Rag
Bernstein – “America” from West Side Story
Debussy – Ballet
Williams – Flight to Neverland
Piazzola – Libertango
Mascagni – Intermezzo from Cavaleria Rusticana
Cui – Scherzando
Reger – Allegretto
Mancini – Too little time
Ross, Graham (1985- )
The Edict of Milan (2006)
British Music Information Center, http://www.bmic.co.uk/
Duration: 12:00.See also: www.grahamross.com
Ross, Walter (1936- )
Quintet No. 1 (1974)
New York: American Music Center
Duration: 12:00. ORDERING INFO BELOW. See also: http://people.virginia.edu/~wbr/home.html
Quintet No. 2 (1985)
New York: American Music Center
Duration: 18:00.
Panda Dances (Quintet no.3) (1989)
New York: American Music Center
Duration: 13:00.
Wind Quintet No. 4, Five Modal Miniatures (2000)
Charlottesville, Va.: Walter Ross, 2000
Duration: 12:00.
Summer Suite, Wind Quintet No. 5 (2001)
Duration: 13:00.
These works are available from the composer: Walter Ross, Music Department, Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903-3298 (subject to change).
The composer states “My first quintet borders on the atonal but the other quintets are tonal (in an expanded sort of way) and the sextet is definitely modal/pandiatonic.” I’m not sure which sextet he is referring to, but it could be his work for piano and woodwind quintet (see the link below).
Divertimento for wind quintet
London: Boosey & Hawkes
Duration: 13:25.
Concerto for Wind Quintet and String Orchestra (1977)
London: Boosey & Hawkes (Rental)
The concerto was recorded by the Clarion Quintet and the Piedmont Chamber Orchestra and is on Golden Crest (CRS-4188). Duration: 22:00.
Suite No. 1 for Winds for double quintet plus (2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns)
See Walter Ross’s Harlequinade for quintet and piano.
Ross, William James (1937- )
Quintet No. 3 for winds
San Antonio, Texas: Riverrun Music Press, 2002
Four movements.
Rossé, Françoise (1945- )
In’Arno for double woodwind quintet
Courley, France: Editions J. M. Fuzeau
Duration: 7:00.
Rosseau, Norbert (1907-1975)
Quintette pour instruments à vent, Op. 54 (1955)
Bruxelles: Le Centre Belge de Documentation Musicale (CeBeDeM), 1958
Duration: 12:00.
Suite Jules Boulez, Op. 83 (1963)
Bruxelles: Centre Belge de Documentation Musicale, 1969
Duration: 30:00.
Concert à cinq, Op. 74 (1960) (for woodwind quintet and orchestra)
Brussels: Centre Belge de Documentation Musicale, 1969
Rossem, Andries van(1957- )
Pier & Ocean, No. 1 (1988) for double woodwind quintet
Amsterdam: Donemus, 1988
Duration: 17:00. Pier and Ocean is based on the painting, “Composition No. 10 Pier and Ocean” of 1915 by Piet Mondrian. The double woodwind quintet work is Part 1. Part 2 appears to be for Chorus. Parts 3 and 4 are for orchestra.
Rossini, Gioachino (or Gioacchino) (1792-1868)
arrangements
If you are looking for info about Rossini’s Quartets, see our new Trios, Quartets & Ephemera Page. I’ve written extensive notes on their composition, arranging and history.
The Barber of Seville Overture (arr. Joachim Linckelmann)
Kassel, Germany: Barenreiter, 1996
The Barber of Seville Overture (arr. Richard Price)
Available from Richard Price, 75 Loughlin Ave., Cos Cob, CT 06807 USA.
Uses Clarinet in A.
The Barber of Seville Overture (arr. Fabio Barnaba)
Published by the arranger; see also http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
The Barber of Seville (arr. Bill Holcombe)
West Trenton, NJ: Musicians Publications, 2001
Presumably it is the overture or excerpts from the opera, not the entire work.
Overture to The Barber of Seville (arr. Fabrizio Francia) for double woodwind quintet
ComposerShop.com, http://www.composershop.com/
“Largo et Factotum” from The Barber of Seville (arr. Richard Price)
Available from Richard Price, 75 Loughlin Ave., Cos Cob, CT 06807 USA
“Largo al Factotum” from The Barber of Seville (and) “March of the Dwarfs” [Troldtog] Op. 54, No. 3 by Grieg (arr. Sylvia Corricelli)
Portland, Ore.: Editions Viento, 2004
An odd combination of musical pieces, but why not? [Andrew Brandt]
La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Sinfonia (arr. Graham Sheen)
Boca Raton, Florida: Masters Music Publications, 1991
Overture to “Cinderella” (arr. Dan Willet)
Performed by the Blythwood Winds.
“Nacqui all’ affano…Non piu Mesta” from Cinderella (arr. Richard Price)
Available from Richard Price, 75 Loughlin Ave., Cos Cob, CT 06807 USA
Overture to La gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) (arr. Fabrizio Francia) for double woodwind quintet
ComposerShop.com, http://www.composershop.com/
Italian Girl in Algiers (L’italiana in Algeri) excerpts (arr. Wendy Large)
New York: Symphony Reproductions, 1988
Italian Girl in Algiers Overture (arr. Wendy Large)
New York: Symphony Reproductions
Duration: 6:00.
Italian in Algiers Overture (arr. Bill Holcombe)
Chesapeake, VA: Bill Holcombe’s Musicians Pub’s (http://billholcombe.com/)
Overture to L’italiana in Algeri (arr. Fabrizio Francia) for double woodwind quintet
ComposerShop.com, http://www.composershop.com/
First flute plays piccolo.
Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers (arr. Brett Freithaler)
Performed by the Blythwood Winds
“Prier de Moise” from Moses in Egypt (arr. Trevor Cramer)
Trevco Music Publishing
Overture to The Silken Ladder (La Scala di Seta)(arranger probably Geoffrey Emerson)
Ampleforth, Eng.: Emerson Edition, 1989
Overture to Tancredi (arr. William Legrand) for flute, oboe, 2 clarinet, 2 bassoons and 2 horns
Amsterdam: Edition Compusic, 1988
William Tell Overture (arr. Gilbert Dejean) for double woodwind quintet and double bass
Available from the arranger
For flute, piccolo, 2 clarinets in A, 2 oboes (2nd doubles English horn), 2 bassoons, 2 horns, double bass and optional trumpet. Duration: 15:00. The arranger probably still lives in New York City.
“Andante” from the William Tell Overture (arr. Adam Lesnick?)
Richmond, Virginia: International Opus
The arrangement includes the complete flute and English horn solos from the original orchestra version. Duration: 3:00.
Finale from the William Tell Overture
United States: Symphony Reproductions, 1989
Contains only the Allegro Vivace section of the Overture.
Overture from La Scala di Seta (arr. Dan Willet)
Copy found in the Samuel Baron Collection of the Juilliard School Lila Acheson Wallace Library.
Il Signor Crescendo! (A Rossini Suite) (arr. Ian Harrold)
Gloucester, UK: IH Music http://www.ihmusic.co.uk/
Arrangements of 4 pieces for piano and songs of Rossini’s later years: Danse Sibérienne; Bagatelle; Elégie Memento homo; Can-can (Chanson du bébé).
Quatuor No. 1 for flute, clarinet, bassoon and horn (arr. Fernand Oubradous)
Paris: Éditions musicales transatlantiques, 1960
Unlisted music of Rossini in a “reconstitution” by Fernand Oubradous.
Rossler (Rössler)
SEE Rosetti
Rossum, Frédéric van (1939- )
Pyrogravures, (1968) Op. 19 bis (1968)
Brussels, CeBeDeM, 1971 /
Philadelphia: Henri Elkan Music (now Elkan-Vogel)
Rostomian, Stepan(1956- )
Wind Quintet No. 1 (1983
Wind Quintet No. 2 (1989)
Rot, Michael (1955- )
Made in Austria, Patriodistische Bemerkungen zur Fremdenverkehrsförderung für Bläserquintett, Op. 23 (1988)
Elrich
Commissioned by the Eichendorr-Quintett. See also: http://www.rotmusic.at/ .
Rota, Nino (1911-1979)
Petite Offrande Musicale (1943)
Paris: Alphonse Leduc, 1955
Quintet
Milano: G. Ricordi & Co.
Theme from the Federico Fellini move “Amarcord” (arr. Adam Lesnick)
Richmond, Virginia: International Opus, 1974.
Duration: 4:00. Theme from the Fellini film.
Rotaru, Doina Marilena(1951- )
Incantaţii (1983)
Duration: 10:50. The composer’s website: https://www.freewebs.com/doinarotaru/ . A recording by the Concordia Quintet is available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlkbwTtbk6o . Do not confuse Doina Rotaru with Diana Rotaru.
Roth, Jason (1972- )
Scherzo
Available from the composer: 235 Seaman Avenue #1B, New York, NY 10034 USA See also: http://members.tripod.com/bartonmusic/
Duration: 4:00.
Rothbart, Peter
Two Modern Motets
Lakeland, FL: Brixton Publications, 2008
Rothgarber, Herbert
Serenade (Three Points of View on a Single Subject) (2003)
Duration: 12:00. See: http://www.licamusic.org/?p=969
Rothkopf, Michael S. (1955- )
Bagatelle for Woodwind Quintet (1999)
New York: American Composers Alliance
Single movement. Duration: 9:00.
First performed by the Bolton Woodwind Quintet of the North Carolina School of the Arts. See also: http://www.michaelsrothkopf.com/
Rothman, Philip (1976- )
Six Miniatures (1999)
Published by the composer, see http://www.philiprothman.com/
Duration: 9:00. Movements: Dance; Musings; Intermezzo; Reflections; Pas de deux; Rondo-Finale.
Regret (1993)
Woodwind Quintet (1993)
The Integral (1995)
Curiously, these last 3 works aren’t listed on the composer’s website, but are in the Dutch Wikipedia article on him.
Rothrock, Carson arrangements
Bike Ride
Chesapeake, VA: Bill Holcombe’s Musicians Pub’s (http://billholcombe.com/)
Diabolus in Musica
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Chesapeake, VA: Bill Holcombe’s Musicians Pub’s (http://billholcombe.com/)
Orgelwerk (Bach, presumably J.S.)
Chesapeake, VA: Bill Holcombe’s Musicians Pub’s (http://billholcombe.com/)
Rotili, Paolo (1959- )
Verso La Notte, Grotesque for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn
Ancona, Italy: Bèrben Edizioni Musicali, http://www.berben.it/
Rouault, Paul(1899-1971)
Divertimento
Stavelot, Belgium: Editions Musicales Bayard-Nizet. http://www.bayard-nizet.com
Movements: I. Préambule; II. Forlane; III. Pavane; IV. Pastourelle. }Duration: 8:00.
Impromptu sur de Vieux Noëls Wallons
Stavelot, Belgium: Editions Musicales Bayard-Nizet. http://www.bayard-nizet.com
Roumain, Daniel Bernard (1971- )
Five Chairs and One Table (2009)
Subito Music Corp.
Duration: 15:00. See also: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3430700062.html
See Roumain’s sextet for piano and winds.
Roussakis, Nicolas (1934-1994)
Woodwind Quintet No. 1
New York: American Composers Alliance
Roussel, Albert (1869-1937)
Divertissement, Op. 6 (arr. Wolfgang Renz) for dectet, woodwind and string quintets
For flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, 2 violins, viola, cello, and double bass. Duration: 7:00. See: http://wolfgang-renz-notendruck.de/ .
See Roussel’s Divertissement for quintet and piano.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Airs pour joues à la troupe marchant (arr. Haufrecht?)
New York: American Composers Alliance
Air pour le fifre avec les tambours (ca. 1770), for 1 flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 1 bassoon, 2 horns and percussion
Roux, Isak (1959- )
Four African Scenes (1999)
Stuttgart, Germany: Isak Roux; see: http://www.isak-roux.com/
Rovira, Eduardo (1925-1980)
Solo en la multitud (arr. Eduardo Rodriguez)
Manuscript, Contact Eduardo Adrian Rodriguez, Calle 37 n 1569, 1900 – La Plata, Argentina
Sr. Rodriguez describes this as a “Slow and sad tango, challenging for the oboe. It was written for Pedro Cochiararo, a virtuoso Argentinian oboe player.”
Rovner, Anton (1970- )
Quintet for woodwinds and horn, Op. 12, No. 1 (1986)
New York: American Music Center
Duration: 10:00.
Rowan, Barbara(1932- )
Quintet
Rowland, David (1939-2007)
Monologues (1977)
Amsterdam: Donemus, 1978
Duration: 12:00.
Rowland-Jones, Simon(1950- )
Serenade for Ten Winds (1979) for double woodwind quintet
Rowson, William
Quintet (2015)
Contact the composer: http://rowsonmusic.com/
Duration: 8:45.
Quintet for Winds (2008)
Contact the composer: http://rowsonmusic.com/
Roxburgh, Edwin (1937- )
Nebula II (1974)
Essex: United Music Publishers
Duration: 12:00.
Wind Quintet No. 2 (1983)
Essex: United Music Publishers
Duration: 14:00.
Roy, Klaus George (1924-2010)
Sterlingman Suite (by Scarlatti?)
Bryn Mawr, PA: Theodore Presser Co.
Originally a chamber opera. The composer had a long association with the Cleveland Orchestra as a program note annotator and radio personality, too.
Rózsa, Pál (1946- )
Wind Quintet No. 1, Op. 26 (1982)
Manuscript copy from Hungarian Music Information Service
4 movements. Duration: 15:00.
Quattro Pezzi, Op. 123 (1987)
Manuscript copy available from the Hungarian Music Information Service.
4 movements. Duration: 9:00. Dedicated to the “Mecsek” Wind Quintet, who played the premiere performance in 1989.
Quintetto penta-tono, Op. 399/A (2002)
Op. 399, on which this appears to be based, was the Quintetto Clarinettissimo for four clarinets and bass clarinet.
Rubin, Marcel (1905-1995)
Serenade für fünf Blaeser (1972)
Wien: Verlag Doblinger 1973
Requires A Clarinet. Duration: 18:00.
Rubinstein, Anton(1829-1894)
Romance (arr. Mike Walton)
Sound the Trumpets, http://www.soundthetrumpets.com/
For student quintets.
Melodie, Op. 3/1 (arr. Joachim Linckelmann)
Mainz: Schott, 2007
See Anton Rubinstein’s Quintet for piano and winds.
Rubinstein, David (1949- )
Jazz Preludes (1990)
Glendale, Ca.: Walrus Music, 1990
Duration: 8:00. Arrangement of work for piano. See also: http://davidrubinstein.net/
Sonatina for Woodwinds (1998)
New York: American Music Center
Duration: 7:00. Recording on composer’s website: http://shadowhillsmusic.com/SonatinaForWoodwinds.html
According to the composer, “The first movement, allegro con spirito, is an abridged sonata-allegro form; the aria is a simple song form which repeats with slight variation, and the last movement, allegro, is essentially an ABABA rondo. It requires little rehearsal time and is an excellent program opener or closer. It received its world premiere by Calico Winds at the Sunday Muse Intergenerational Concerts in Los Angeles in 2000….”
Rubtsov, Andrey(1982- )
Three Moods (2002)
TrevCo Music Publishing; see https://vk.com/smartmusicshop for other countries
3 movements: Void; Sadness; Frivolity. Work was composed shortly after Rubtsov became oboist with the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet. It has since been performed by many quintets around the world. Duration: 11:00. See: http://www.eng.andreyrubtsov.com/ . Recording available on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSfIQXQy3A0
Arrangements by Andrey Rubtsov (see also original composers’ listings)
Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev
See the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet’s commerce page at https://vk.com/smartmusicshop
Flight of the Bumblebee by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
See the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet’s commerce page at https://vk.com/smartmusicshop
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka by Johann Strauss, Jr.
See the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet’s commerce page at https://vk.com/smartmusicshop
Tales from the Vienna Woods by Johann Strauss, Jr.
See the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet’s commerce page at https://vk.com/smartmusicshop
Vocalise by Sergei Rachmaninoff
See the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet’s commerce page at https://vk.com/smartmusicshop
Nutcracker Suite by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
See the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet’s commerce page at https://vk.com/smartmusicshop
“Wolf Tracks” by Jean-Pascal Beintus
See the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet’s commerce page at https://vk.com/smartmusicshop
Air by Johann Sebastian Bach
See the Russian National Orchestra Wind Quintet’s commerce page at https://vk.com/smartmusicshop
also:
Concertanta for woodwind quintet and strings and percussion (2008)
See http://www.eng.andreyrubtsov.com/
Duration: 16:00.
Rudajev, Alexandre (1935- )
Petite Suite Parisienne
Flute doubles on Alto flute. Movements: Promenade; La tendre misterieuse; Les guignols; Chanson d’un clown triste; Finale en forme d’ouverture.
Ruders, Poul (1949- )
Wind Drumming (1979)
Copenhagen: Wilhelm Hansen
Duration: 12:00.
Rudolf, Bert (1905-1992)
Musik für fünf Bläser, a la memoire de Stifter (1971)
Berlin: Astoria, 1973, 1980
Duration: 7:30.
Concerto Romano (1975)
Berlin: Astoria Verlag
Duration: 12:00.
Rüegg, Mathias (1952- )
Short Developments
Wien: Doblinger
Commissioned by Swiss ensemble Opus Novum. The German text suggests that there is a strong jazz influence in this work.
Rugani, Jessica
Rondo for Woodwind Quintet (2005)
New York: American Music Center
Duration: 4:30. See also: http://jessicarugani.weebly.com/
Rufeisen, Arie (1926- )
Five Miniatures (1994)
Tel Aviv: Israel Music Center /
Tel Aviv: Israelcomposers.org
Duration: 22:00.
Antiphonia (1994)
Tel Aviv: Israelcomposers.org
Duration: 6:00.
Dance (1992)
Tel Aviv: Israelcomposers.org
Duration: 5:00.
Fuga No. 1 (1992)
Tel Aviv: Israelcomposers.org
Duration: 5:00.
Fuga No. 2 (1992)
Tel Aviv: Israelcomposers.org
Duration: 3:00.
Phonia (1996)
Tel Aviv: Israelcomposers.org
Duration: 5:00.
Prophonia (1995)
Tel Aviv: Israelcomposers.org
Duration: 5:00.
The Train of Vale (2000)
Tel Aviv: Israelcomposers.org
Duration: 4:00.
Rugel, Philip
Introduction & Fantasia (2008)
Halcyon Music; see also http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
Rüggeberg, Michael
Bläserquintett
Rugolo, Pete (1915-2011)
Bossa-Waltz (1965)
Los Angeles, Calif.: Western International Music, 1965 /
San Antonio, Tex.: RBC Publications
Ruggieri, Giovanni Maria (ca. 1665-ca. 1725, flourished 1689-1720)
Allegro from Op. 3, No. 5 (arr. Robert Dockstader)
New York: Consort Trios, 1973
Originally for 2 violins and continuo. Photocopy.
Rumsey, Tim (1977- )
composer & arranger
Five Sketches
Pub. by Tim Rumsey. See also: http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
Five movements: Skipping Time; Out of the Womb; First Flight; No Trees in the Forest; Funeral Dance. Duration: 6:00.
Amazing Grace (arranged, 2009)
Pub. by Tim Rumsey; see also http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
A Mighty Fortress is Our God (Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott) by Martin Luther (arr. Tim Rumsey)
Pub. by Tim Rumsey; see also http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/
Luther wrote the words and the melody between 1527-1529.
Morning has Broken (arranged)
Laudation Music www.laudationmusic.com
Traditional folk song made famous by Cat Stevens (later Yusuf Islam).
Meditation on “I Wonder as I Wander”
Laudation Music; see Boston, MA.: Ione Press
“I Wonder as I Wander” is a hymn by John Jacob Niles, usually sung for Christmas, based on a fragment of a folk song. Duration: 5:30.
Rise Up, Shepherd and Follow (arranged)
Laudation Music www.laudationmusic.com
Arrangement of the American spiritual.
For more arrangements, see also; Messiter, Arthur H., and others.
See Tim Rumsey’s The Sacred Pools of Hana for quintet and piano.
Running, Arne (1943-2016)
Aria and Quodlibet for Woodwind Quintet (2004)
From the composer. See Trevco Music in the U.S.
The Aria is a beautiful movement, but the standout is the Quodlibet, which includes a fast-moving comic display of orchestral, circus and cartoon musical excerpts that you have to hear to believe. There are several recordings on YouTube, including this graduate quintet: https://youtu.be/5SY_hOd81as .) [ Andrew Brandt ]
Rusch, Milton Howard (1896-1964)
Quintet (1964) (also listed as Festival Quintet)
Manuscript: University of Wisconsin
The New York Woodwind Quintet premiered the work on June 29, 1964 on the Summer Evenings of Music at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Festival Quintet (1964)
Movements: Sonata; Chorale and Variations; Scherzo; Cadenza; Finale
Rush, Ed arrangements
Angels We have Heard on High
manuscript
Also check: David E. Smith Publications http://www.despub.com/
Russell, Armand (1932- )
Quintet
Manuscript: Michigan State University
Suite Concertante for tuba and woodwind quintet
Fairport, N.Y.: Pyraminx Publications, 1963
Athens, Ohio: Accura Music, 1963
Music for Woodwinds
7 movements, of which only 3 are for full woodwind quintet: Movements: I. Fantasia for quintet; II. Variations for solo clarinet; III. Rondo for flute, oboe and bassoon; IV. Fantasia for quintet; V. Variations for solo flute; VI. Rondo for clarinet, horn and bassoon; VII. Fantasia for quintet.
Russell, Robert
Woodwind Quintet, Op. 32 (1970)
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.: General Music Pub. Co. 1971
Duration: 13:00.
Russo, John(1943- )
Five pieces for woodwind quintet
Duration: 16:00. Movements: Il Energetico; Il Ostinato; Il Gentile; Il Maestoso; Il Scherzando.
Rut, Josef (1926-2007)
Wind quintet (1977)
Check Praha: Cesky Hudebni Fond (Czech Music Foundation)
Duration: 17:00. (Listed under works using 12-tone scale.) http://www.musica.cz/rut/index.html
Rutschman, Edward Raymond
Woodwind Quintet (1969)
Rutter, John (1945- )
Three Pieces from Five Childhood Lyrics
Sound the Trumpets, http://www.soundthetrumpets.com/
Includes: The Owl and the Pussy-cat; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; Sing a Song of Sixpence. For student quintets.
Ruyneman, Daniel (1886-1963)
Nightengale Quintet (1949)
Amsterdam: Stichting Donemus, 1965
Duration: 16:00.
Reflexions No. 4 (1961)
Amsterdam: Donemus, 1961 /
New York: C.F. Peters, 1961
Score also includes: “Hieroglyphs” for three flutes, celesta, harp, cupbells, piano, two mandolins and two guitars. Duration: 5:00.
Ruždjak, Marko (1946-2012)
Prospetti (1973)
Figure (Figures) (1993)
In-Out (2002)
Recorded by the Zagrebački puhački ansambl (Zagreb Woodwind Ensemble) in Croatia.
Růžička, Rudolf (1941- )
Wind Quintet No.2 (1975)
See http://www.musicbase.cz/composers/823-ruzicka-rudolf/
Duration: 11:00.
Timbres (1967) for woodwind quintet and electronic sounds (also listed as Timbri)
Hudebni Informacni Stredisko, http://www.musicbase.cz/compositions/6880-timbri/
See also: http://www.pytheasmusic.org/ruzicka.html
Ryan, Pat
A Haydn Movement
London: Chappell & Co., 1969
Ryan-Hirst, Thomas
Safety Net
Rybar, Jaroslav (1942- )
Discourse for Five Instruments (Rozhovor pro pět nástrojů) (1976)
See http://www.musicbase.cz/compositions/6902-rozhovor-pro-pet-nastroju/
See also: http://www.musicbase.cz/composers/827-rybar-jaroslav/
Recorded for Czech radio.
Rychlik, Jan (1916-1964)
Dechovy kvintet (Woodwind Quintet) (1961)
Praha: Statni Hudebni Vydavatelstvi, 1964 /
Prague: Editio Supraphon
Duration: 14:00.
Suite (1946)
Prague: Statni hudebni vydavatelstvi (Supraphon)
Ryden, William (1939- )
Three Wonderland Rags (on quotes from Lewis Carroll)
Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: General Music /
Boca Raton, Florida: Masters Music, 1998
A Ragtime Aviary (2002)
Bocal Raton, Florida: Masters Music, 2002
Rypdal, Terje (1947- )
Quintet for Winds, Op. 5 (1973)
Oslo: NB noter (Contemporary Norwegian sheet music)
Duration: 8:25. See also Norwegian Music Information Centre, http://www.notam.uio.no/nmi/index.html
also:
Mesmerized – Capriccio for electric guitar, woodwind quintet and strings, Op. 93 (2009)
Oslo: NB Noter https://www.nb.no/sheet-music/
Duration: 24:40. Sample score available for download from NB Noter.