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October

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Onyx Brass

JS Bach (arr. Powell) Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm der Heiden Heiland’, BWV 659
JS Bach (arr. Maynard) Fugue in G, BWV 541
Peter Fribbins Brass Quintet (world premiere)
I Holst Leiston Suite (1967)
Arnold Brass Quintet No. 1, Op. 73
Shostakovich (arr. Sutton) Fugue in G, Op. 87 No. 3
Mendelssohn (arr. Thomson) ‘Duetto’ from Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 38 No. 6
John Adams (arr. Gordon-Shute) China Gates (1977)
Simon Lesley Time Out (world premiere)
Herbert Chappell Hollywood Portraits
Guy Barker Onyx Noir (London premiere)

Ryan Linham trumpet
Alan Thomas trumpet
Andrew Sutton horn
Amos Miller trombone
David Gordon-Shute tuba

Onyx Brass, one of Britain’s most famous and innovative brass quintets, presents an imaginative and wide-ranging programme of music for brass. As well as arrangements of favourite pieces by JS Bach, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich, they perform Malcolm Arnold’s First Brass Quintet – a leading piece in the brass repertoire, and one of the first to standardise the brass quintet instrumental line-up in the early 1960s. Onyx also performs music by Imogen Holst and John Adams, and deliver the world premieres of new brass quintets by Simon Lesley and Peter Fribbins.