Chicago Brass Quintet Sample Programs
The Chicago Brass Quintet's repertoire includes nearly 400 works.
It reaches from the renaissance to today and includes original
works for brass, commissions and arrangements for the Chicago
Brass Quintet alone and with Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble,
Organ, Piano, and The Brown Singers Gospel Quintet. The following
programs include a sampling of performances given within the past
five years.
“Bach to Stravinsky”
La Mourisque
The Music of Bach
Chorale
Bouree
Sonatine
Fugue
Tylman Susato ( 1500- 1564)
Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685-1750)
arr. Samuel Adler
arr. James Mattern
arr. Jan Bach
arr. Irving Rozenthal
Suite Debussy
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
arr. James Mattern
La Petit Negre
Adagio
Reverie
Golliwog’s Cakewalk
Sonata Breve
James Mattern (1937- )
Moderately Fast
Scherzo
Very Slow
Moderately Fast
Swing Low
Four Works
--INTERMISSION-Traditional - arr. Daniel Anderson
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
arr. James Mattern
March
Adagio
Song of the Balalaika
Gallop
Adagio from Concerito de
Aranjuez
The Sound of Music
“A Night In London”
Joaquin Rodrigo (1901 - 1999)
arr. James Mattern
Richard Rogers (1902 - 1979)
arr. John Mindenmen
Handel Suite
Overture to Rinaldo
Total Eclipse
Sound an Alarm
George Frederich Handel (1685 - 1759)
Centone #11
William Boyce (1710-1779)
arr. Verne Reynolds
Allegro Assai
Moderato e dolce
Allegro
Rest
Brass Quintet #1(1961)
Allegro Vivace
Chaconne
Con Brio
Ralph Vaughn Williams (1872-1958)
Malcolm Arnold
--INTERMISSION-Holst Suite
March
Song Without Words
Song of the Blacksmith
Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Tribute to Gilbert and Sullivan
Sr. Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
A Nightingale Sang in Barley A. Markowitz
Square
Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Weber (1948)
“Music for Organ & Brass”
Music of Baroque Masters
Fanfare
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Sonata Pian e' Forte
Giovanni Gabrieli (1554-1613)
Fanfare
Gottfried Reiche (1667-1734)
Prince of Denmark's March Jeremiah Clarke (1673-1707)
Solemn Entry
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Primeval Light (from Symphony 2) Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Toccatta from Fifth Symphy for Organ Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
--INTERMISSION-Concerto in G minor for Organ
Swing Low
Elegy for Trumpet & Organ
Francis Poulenc
arr. James Mattern
Traditional
arr. Dan Anderson
Oistein Sommerfeldt (b. 1919)
Old American Songs
The Dodger
Simple Gifts
Ching-a-Ring Chaw
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Stars & Stripes Forever
John Phillip Sousa (1854-1932)
“Chicago Brass Quintet with The Brown Singers”
Suite from Porgy and Bess
Introduction and Summertime
A Boat Dats Leavin’
Strawberry
I Can’t Sit Down
George Gershwin
Old American Songs
The Dodger
At the River
Ching A Ring Chaw
Simple Gifts
Aaron Copland
The Greatest Gift
We Shall Behold Him
Swing Down Chariot
Song of Praise
Daniel Toles
Doris Brown
--INTERMISSION-Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Traditional
arr. Dan Anderson
Three Rags
Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
When Your Hair is Like the Snow
Pineapple Rag
How Great Thou Art
Amazing Grace
When the Saints Go Marching In
“Chicago Brass Quintet with Piano”
Allegro
Folk Song Suite
Magyar Tanc
Melody
Song of the Fox
The Swinherd's Dance
Antonio Vivaldi
Bela Bartok
arr. James Mattern
El Amor Brujo
Manuel DeFalla
arr. James Mattern
Excursions
Un Poco Allegro
Slow Blues Tempo
Allegro Molto
Samuel Barber
Dancing to Restore an
Eclipsed Moon
From Shadowcatcher
Eric Ewazen
arr. For Brass & Piano by E. Ewazen
--INTERMISSION-Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Traditional
arr. Dan Anderson
Sute for French Horn, Tuba & Piano
Alec Wilder
In a Jazzy Style
Berceuse
Hoe-Down
Ching a Ring Chaw
Four Rags for Piano & Brass
Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
Maple Leaf Rag
When Your Hair is Like the Snow
Pineapple Rag
Stars & Stripes Forever
John Phillip Sousa
“Chicago Brass Quintet Christmas
with Symphony Orchestra”
Variations on
Ronald Foster
“Good King Wenceslas”
Suite from "The Nutcracker"
P.I. Tchaikovsky
March of the Toy Soldiers
Chocolate
Trepak
Christmas Around the World
Joy to the World
Away In the Manger
Gesu Bambino
Christmas Bells
Infance du Christ
Troika
arr. James Mattern
Sleigh Ride
Leroy Anderson
--INTERMISSION--
Silent Night
Franz Gruber
arr. James Mattern
The Cristmas Suite
Maury Laws
Save a Little Christmas
Carol
Waltz for Christmas
One Star in the Night
Parade of the Christmas Toys
Tivoli Bells
Patapan
Hallelujah Chorus
Traditional
George Fredrick Handel