John Pizzarelli / The George Shearing Quintet
The Rare Delight of You [ Telarc SACD / SACD ] This is a dual-layer discrete multi-channel surround Hybrid SACD - playable on all CD players. Fantastic sound quality! |
GESUALDO
Madrigals Book I Kassiopeia Quintet [ Globe / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] The first ensemble in over 40 years to record all of Gesualdo´s madrigals |
GESUALDO
Madrigals Book II Kassiopeia Quintet [ Globe / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] The first ensemble in over 40 years to record all of Gesualdo´s madrigals |
GESUALDO
Madrigals Book III Kassiopeia Quintet [ Globe / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] The first ensemble in over 40 years to record all of Gesualdo´s madrigals |
GESUALDO
Madrigals Book IV Kassiopeia Quintet [ Globe / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] The first ensemble in over 40 years to record all of Gesualdo´s madrigals |
Lou McGarity Quintet
Music From Some Like It Hot [ Lonehill / CD - released 10/May/2008 ] |
Louis Sclavis Quintet
Rouge [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Clarinettist/saxophonist Louis Sclavis's first ECM album (recorded 1991) brims over with ideas, creating something fresh at the intersection of jazz and chamber music. Compositions and arrangements on Rouge twist and turn in unexpected ways, keeping... |
DAVID / SACHSE / GRAFE / REICHE / GABRIELI / SCHUTZ / etc
Trombone: Greatest works Ludwig Guttler Wind Band Ensemble & Berlin Wind Band Quintet [ Berlin Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2012 ] This collection includes trombone concertos by David, Sachse, Gräfe and Reiche as well as pieces by composers ranging from Gabrieli to Stravinsky. |
The Man Overboard Quintet
Down In The Deep Deep Blue [ Champs Hill Records / CD ] A rhythm section that would make even a half-decent front line sound great; a front line that would enhance any ensemble; a bunch of great, sometimes neglected, songs with catchy tunes and quirky, image-laden lyrics. Surely, it's all just a wonderful... |
Manfred Schoof Quintet
Resonance [ ECM Records / 3 CD - released 19/Oct/2009 ] One of the founding fathers of modern jazz in Germany, Schoof counts as the romantic amongst the free players, a strongly lyrical improviser. Romantic ballad playing, stark dramatic post-bop soloing, and the squeezing- out-sparks free playing. |
Mario Biondi & The High Five Quintet
Handful Of Soul (2LP) [ Schema / 2 LP - released 27/Jan/2017 ] |
SCHOENBERG
Chamber Symphony No. 2 / Die gluckliche Hand / Wind Quintet Mark Beesley (bass) / Simon Joly Chorale / New York Woodwind Quintet / Philharmonia Orchestra / Robert Craft [ Naxos Schoenberg Edition Vol 8 / CD - released 1/May/2008 ] The little-known Second Chamber Symphony ought to be the most popular of Schoenberg's later masterpieces. Neither "atonal" nor "twelve-tone", it contrasts a lush, melodious, dramatic first movement with a rapid and richly polyphonic second movement.... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Concerto Barocco Matthias Havinga (harpsichord, organ) / Seldom Sene (flute quintet) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Masterpieces of the Baroque concerto as you've never heard them before: the sixth Brilliant Classics album from a much-acclaimed, ground-breaking young recorder quintet. As the forerunner of the piano and violin concertos, the concerto grosso is all... |
BEETHOVEN
String Quintets Vol 1 Metamorphosis Quintet [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] The three works here included are arrangements of two trios by Beethoven and of his Horn Sonata. |
Michael Garrick Quintet
Cold Mountain [ Vocalion / CD - released 20/Feb/2006 ] |
Michael Garrick Quintet
October Woman/Anthem [ Vocalion / CD - released 31/Oct/2005 ] |
Michael Garrick Quintet
Poetry And Jazz In Concert [ Vocalion / 2 CD - released 20/Feb/2006 ] |
REICHA
Wind Quintets, Op. 88, No. 5 and Op. 91, No. 1 Michael Thompson Wind Quintet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] "Great music you might not have heard, but will listen to often" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
REICHA
Wind Quintets, Volume 1 Michael Thompson Wind Quintet [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2000 ] The first of many recordings!! |
Mike Nock Quintet
Ozboppin' [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/1998 ] New Zealand born Mike Nock is an established piano master who has developed his own distinguished style of rock-solid tunes, jagged lines, spare harmonies and ostinato patterns. His work with the likes of Coleman Hawkins, Sam Rivers, Yusef Lateef,... |