bones apart trombone quartet
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"Bones Apart represents all that is best about British brass playing, with a beauty of sound and musicality that is simply stunning. They communicate with passion and humour and serve as wonderful ambassadors for the trombone"
Kevin Price,
Head of Brass,
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Sample programmes
Wonder Women
Wonder Women: Muses, Queens and Warriors
We showcase music of female composers and songwriters including Lili and Nadia Boulanger, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Nina Simone and Joni Mitchell as well as exploring music inspired by female icons throughout history from Boudicca to Calamity Jane!
Suite from Bonduca - Henry Purcell
O quam mirabilis - Hildegard von Bingen
Suite from Sant Alessio - Camilla de Rossi
Vignettes - Selection of works by Lili and Nadia Boulanger
First Trombone Quartet - Saskia Apon (2000)
Lady Sings the Blues - Songs by Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Ann Ronell
Blues Melba - Melba Liston
Songs from Calamity Jane - Fain and Webster
El Nuevo Mundo
A
musical voyage from the Spanish peninsula to the discovery of The
Americas
Three Pieces from the Spanish Renaissance - Anon
Vivencies - Christian Lindberg (2004)
American Folk Songs and Spirituals - Various
Choros No.4 - Villa-Lobos (1926)
Three Preludes - Gershwin
Postcards from Argentina - Piazzolla
Chasing Legends
Colourful
and enchanting tales including King Arthur, Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood and
Sweeney Todd
Orfeo - Monteverdi
Suite from King Arthur - Purcell
Scenes from Sherwood - Dan Jenkins (2012)
A Little Threepenny Music - Kurt Weill
Tales from Mother Goose - Ravel / Tchaikovsky / Humperdinck
Little Suite from Sweeney Todd - Malcolm Arnold
Songs from My Fair Lady - Lerner and Loewe
"If music be the food of love..."
Programme of music inspired by the works of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare
Agincourt Song - Anon.
Four Shakespeare Songs - Tim Jackson (2008)
Scenes from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' - Mendelssohn
Poem Unlimited - Jason Carr (1999)
Suite from 'Hamlet' - Tchaikovsky
West Side Story Selection - Leonard Bernstein
If Music be the Food of Love - John Dankworth
The art of trombone
St. Mark's to St. Louis... the history of the trombone from the Renaissance to Red Hot Jazz
Canzona - Marini (1626)
Drei Equali - Beethoven (1812)
Motets - Bruckner (1847)
Sonata for Trombones - Simon Wills (1983)
Variations on 'Annie Laurie' - Arthur Pryor (1905)
Three Movements - Tom Davoren (2009)
St. Louis Blues - W.C.Handy (1914)
Bones Apart presents...
Music from the Stage and Screen brought to life at a theatre near you!
A Tudor Maske - Henry VIII / Byrd / Dowland
Overture to 'The Barber of Seville' - Rossini
Scenes from 'The Nutcracker' - Tchaikovsky
Comedians' Galop - Kabalevsky
Promenade 'Walking the Dog' - Gershwin
Such Sweet Thunder - Duke Ellington
Tribute to the 'Rat Pack' - Porter / Rodgers & Hart / Berlin