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Listen: Quintet for Brass (2nd Movement)

This work was written in 1967 as a graduation piece whilst I was a student at the Royal Academy of Music. It won the coveted Frederick Corder memorial prize.

In the audience at the first performance, given by a student brass quintet, was Philip Jones, who took up the work and gave it its first professional performance as well as a broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Soon after, the Quintet was also taken up by Hallé Brass, who recorded it commercially. It was the composer’s first published work with Novello, who remain as his main publisher today. The work is dedicated to the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.

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