From the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet – a wonderful archive with dozens of free mp3 files.  Also check out the list of musicians who have played with the quintet over the years.

mp3, Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet

Those looking for some last minute Christmas music might be interested in the Whichpond Music holiday wind quintet library- Holst, Vaughan Williams, selections from Messiah, American and English carols, and more, at a 30% discount.

Christmas, Handel, holiday, Holst, Vaughan Williams

From Cate Gerhart at the University of Washington – a comprehensive bibliography of double wind quintet music.

And a shameless plug for my own double wind quintet transcription of Faure’s Pavane.

Cate Gerhart, double wind quintet, Faure

Stuart Balcomb’s American Trilogy (Sunset Strip, Friday Harbor, Ellis Island) will be heard on the New York Philharmonic Wind Quintet’s November 2009 CD.  “Ellis Island” has been featured twice on Bill McGlaughlin’s St. Paul Sunday on NPR.

New York Philharmonic Wind Quintet: Mark Nuccio (clarinet), Sherry Sylar (oboe), Erik Ralske (horn), Judith LeClair (bassoon) and Robert Langevin (flute)

American Trilogy, Balcomb, New York Philharmonic Wind Quintet

Solaris Wind Quintet to perform Schoenberg’s Op. 26 Quintet, November 22 in Akron.

“The quintet will perform Schoenberg’s work in the historical/cultural context of 1920s Vienna, with poetry and art by Kandinsky and popular music by Kurt Weill and Louis Armstrong.”

Schoenberg, Solaris Wind Quintet

West Virginia University Graduate Wind Quintet perform the Big 3:

Carl Nielsen – Quintet

Paul Hindemith – Kleine Kammermusik

Jacques Ibert – Trois pieces breves

“These are three of the most well known, important works of chamber music of the time period.”

Hindemith, Ibert, Nielsen, West Virginia University Graduate Wind Quintet

From the Philadelphia Inquirer – Imani Winds at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

“Imani Winds has managed the trick of paying homage to its woodwind quintet ancestors, while overhauling its repertoire with genre-bending commissions.”

Mongo Santamaria – Afro Blue

Elliott Carter – Woodwind Quintet

Pavel Haas – Woodwind Quintet

Paquito D’Rivera – Aires Tropicales

Carter, D'Rivera, Haas, Imani Winds, Santamaria

From the Dorian Wind Quintet, a list of their most performed works.  Not surprisingly, the leader – at 433 performances – is Ibert’s Trois pieces breves.

Dorian Wind Quintet, Ibert