Menuet from Flute Quartet, Op.12 for Brass Quintet - Antonin Reicha arr. Jirí Linha

From the series LA MUSICA BOEMA II.

Brass Quintet for 2 Trumpets, Horn and 2 Trombones.

The brass section of the Czech Philharmonic has released a wonderful collection of Bohemian music spanning the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The source music is pulled from organ, piano, vocal, and orchestra scores by eminent Bohemian composers; altough, with the exception of Frantisek (Franz) Xaver Richter, none are particularly well known to today's listeners. The forms and harmonies of these works, however, are quite familiar to our ears and are skillfully preserved in these arrangements by Jiri Linha. Rather than arrange for full brass ensemble, Linha has scored these works as chamber music for anywhere from three to nine instruments in a variety of combinations not often programmed (four horns; three trumpets, two trombones; three trumpets, four horns, tuba, for example).
In his informative liner notes Linha suggests that these arrangements serve both the student and professional chamber ensemble equally well; the harmonies, ranges, and technical requirements are interesting and pleasing to the audience without placing excessive demands on the performers. To that end, all of the arrangements are available from Musikverlag RUNDEL.