Solar Winds performs the standard quintet repertoire, from its origins in the classical era to the masterpieces of the twentieth century. Some of the works we have performed in recent concerts are listed below:
Arnold - Three Shanties
Barber - Summer Music
Cambini - Wind Quintet No. 2
D'Rivera - Aires Tropicales
Dahl - Allegro Arioso
Damase - Dix-Sept Variations
Danzi - Quintet opus 56 No. 2; Quintet opus 67 No.2
Fine - Partita
Grainger - Walking Tune
Hindemith - Kleine Kammermusik
Ibert - Trois Pièces Brèves
Jansons - Suite of Old Lettish Dances
Klughardt - Quintet
Milhaud - La Cheminée du Roi René
Nielsen - Quintet
Schuller - Suite
With pianist Guy Urban, Solar Winds has also performed the following works:
Beethoven - Quintet, opus 16
Jacob - Sextet
Mozart - Quintet K. 452
Poulenc - Sextet
New music is an important part of Solar Winds' repertoire. Compositions marked with an asterisk were premiered by the quintet:
Fantasy for Woodwind Quintet - Andrew List
Six Little Pieces for Woodwind Quintet - Marty Epstein
*Suite for Wind Quintet - Pasquale Tassone
*To the Solar Winds - James Ricci
*Woodwind Quintet - Francine Trester
Woodwind Quintet - Rosey Lee
Arrangements, from orchestral classics to popular songs, enliven many of Solar Winds' concerts:
Canon - Pachelbel
Carmen Suite - Bizet
Flight of the Bumblebee - Rimsky-Korsakov
Im Krapfenwaldl - Johann Strauss
Little Fugue in g Minor - Bach
Maple Leaf Rag and The Cascades - Joplin
Novelette in C - Poulenc
One Love - Marley
Overture to the Magic Flute - Mozart
Teddy Bears' Picnic - Bratton
The Stars and Stripes Forever and Liberty Bell - Sousa
Umoja - Valerie Coleman
Our family concerts feature a musical story with narrator Guy Urban:
Ferdinand the Bull - Mark Fish
How Bear Lost His Tail - Pasquale Tassone
Peter and the Wolf - Sergei Prokofiev
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship - John Kusiak
