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The Quintet's wide-ranging repertoire, including baroque and classical arrangements, adaptations of renaissance music and transcriptions of modern jazz and swing have delighted concert-goers throughout the UK, France, Germany, Canada, Spain, Austria, Iceland, Finland, Thailand, Qatar and Jordan.

CBQ can plan special programmes to suit your festival, concert or private function. Below are our most requested pieces, but there are endless possibilities…

Original music written for brass quintet, including commissions

*Commissioned by Cambrian Brass Quintet

** Written for CBQ

  • Armenian Scenes by Aratjunian
  • *Blue, Indigo, Violet by Tim Ewers
  • Brass Quintet by Malcolm Arnold
  • Call by Berio
  • Chamber Music by John Joubert
  • **Hellenic Suite by Ted Watson
  • The Pole Star March by Peter Maxwell Davis
  • Music for His Majesty's Sackbutts and Cornetts by Matthew Locke
  • Mini Overture by Witold Lutoslawski
  • Chaucer Music by Michael Berkeley
  • Quintet by Victor Ewald
  • **Quintet by Gareth Wood
  • *Quintet by Robert Simpson
  • Quintetto by Petre Eben
  • Rounds for Brass by John McCabe
  • Seven Proverbs for Brass Quintet by Dereck Bourgeois
  • Summer Dances by William Matthias
  • **Spanish Suite by Ted Watson
  • Sweet Swan of Avon by Ted Watson
  • *Things Remembered While on Trains by Jonathan Dove

Arrangements/transcriptions

  • A Newfoundland Sketch by Howard Cable (collection of US /Canadian folk tunes)
  • A Nightingale Sang arr. Roberts
  • Aint she sweet arr. Roberts
  • Canon by Pachelbel
  • Canzona per Sonare by Gabrieli
  • Carmen by Bizet arr. Gareth Wood
  • Champagne Polka by Strauss arr. Roberts
  • Chanson de Matin by Elgar arr. Roberts
  • Chicken Dance by Praetorious arr. Archibald
  • Come into the Garden Maude by Balfe arr. Roberts
  • Early Spanish Music - various, arr. Miller
  • Emperor Waltz by Strauss arr. Holcombe
  • Fancies, toyes and dreames by Giles Farnaby arr. Howarth
  • Fugue in G minor by Bach arr. Sauer
  • Gay 90s - Traditional Victorian tunes arr.Holcombe
  • Gershwin Selection arr. Willis
  • Hello by Lionel Richie arr. Willis
  • Here, there and everywhere by Lennon/McCartney
  • Home Sweet Home - trad. arr. Willis
  • Honey Pie by Lennon/McCartney arr. Willis
  • Humoresque by Dvorak arr. Hazel
  • Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach arr. Allen
  • La Rose Nuptiale by Lavallée arr.Cable
  • Largo from Xerxes by Handel arr. Pitt
  • Liberty Bell March by Sousa arr.Holcombe
  • Light Cavalry Overture by Suppe arr. Holcombe
  • Londonderry Air - trad. arr. Roberts
  • Music from the Court of Christian IV - various
  • Pirates of Penzance by Gillbert and Sullivan arr. Wadkin
  • Poet and Peasant by Suppe arr. Mills
  • Porgy and Bess by Gershwin arr. Holcombe
  • Radetsky March by Strauss arr. Robert
  • Roaring 20s - trad. arr.Nagle
  • Spring Dance by Praetorious
  • Suite for Brass Quintet - Edvard Greig arr. Civil
  • Suite from Nicholas Nickleby by Steven Oliver
  • Winter by Vivaldi arr. Roberts
  • Yesterday by Lennon/McCartney arr. Willis

A tYPICAL PROGRAMME FOR A MUSIC SOCIETY OR CLUB

Aratjunian Armenian Scenes

Praetorius Spring Dance

Gabrieli Canzona per Sonare

Dvorak Humoresque

Ewald Quintet

INTERVAL

Maxwell-Davies March: The Pole Star for Brass Quintet

Gershwin Porgy and Bess

Lennon/McCartney Yesterday

Lavallée La Rose Nuptiale

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