about Music Sundowner-Programme 33 – Graceful Breezes (Woodwinds Only)

Two A major Concerto’s by Mozart today. Mozart’s Concertos for Piano and for Clarinet, are both in A major. This is one of Mozart’s “happy keys”, along with E flat major and C major. In the context of the Doctrine of the Affections, each musical key was believed to have…

The Saxophone music I played has proved popular and requests for more have followed. Today we turn to a lighter side of the instrument, exploring short pieces that are arrangements of popular orchestral and piano compositions, arranged for the Saxophone.

Think you know what a tuba sounds like? Think again. In music4tubas, the biggest and lowest member of the brass family shows a very different side of its personality. Hear four tubas sing together, a single tuba dance through Grieg, tackle Vivaldi's Winter and race through the dazzling Carnival of…

This time, the trombone speaks for itself. It welcomes us, romances us and reveals its darker colours before the light returns. And if you thought an instrument with a long slide couldn’t dazzle with breathtaking virtuosity — think again! Ten short pieces reveal a trombone that can sing, dance, mourn,…

This time we forget the hunting calls and heroic fanfares that the horn is so good at for a while. This time, we simply allow the horn to sing. Saint-Saëns, Glazunov, Franz and Richard Strauss, Glière and Schumann reveal the instrument at its warmest and most lyrical. Poulenc takes us…