Wind Quintet

Franz Schubert

arranged by Tony Turrill

 If you wish to hear some computer generated extracts of each movement in turn, then click on the quaver

Tony Turrill writes of this quintet :-

This arrangement of an early violin sonatina by Franz Schubert was prompted by two events. One was publishing a delightful arrangement by James Breed of the same sonatina for wind octet. ( also available from NorviK Music). The process  of typesetting that arrangement embedded the melodies so firmly in my brain that I frequently awoke with the tunes singing in my head..  The second was less musical but perhaps more directly related to the quintet version. At one stage of their  development, each of my grandchildren was addicted to a particular children's television programme which my wife and I "enjoyed" over and over and over again.  They included Thomas the Tank Engine; Pingu; Postman Pat; Wallace and Grommet, thankfully  and a Canadian  cartoon character called Little Bear. The accompanying music was usually less than memorable with the exception of the last.  Little Bear was performed to the strains of the last movement of this sonatina,  set for a wind quintet.   I couldn't trace that particular arrangement and therefore if I wanted to play it,  had to make my own.   This arrangement is therefore dedicated to three people - James Breed, Little Bear and my youngest grandson William Cook. Some liberties have been taken to fit the new instruments to the original score particularly at the beginning, where listeners will recognise the influence of the "marches militaires", and in the clarinet accompaniments of the last movement. “

The movements are:-

• Allegro molto
• Andante
• Allegro vivace