A4 BRASS QUARTET

Chamber brass music and virtuosic playing at its best with daytime show

A4 Brass Quartet features principal players from the UK’s leading brass bands – Black Dyke, Grimethorpe, Brighouse & Rastrick and Foden’s. Performing lyrical and high-octane works on cornet, tenor horn, baritone and euphonium, this all-star quartet form a distinctive new take on chamber music.

Programme

First Half

Richard Strauss arr. J Bates Festmusik der Stadt Wien
Mozart arr. J Bates Marriage of Figaro Overture
John Rutter arr. J Bates A Gaelic Blessing
Baritone Horn Soloist: Mike Cavanagh
Ralph Vaughan Williams arr. J Bates English Folk Song Suite
I. March – Seventeen Come Sunday
II. Intermezzo – My Bonny Boy
III. March – Folk Songs from Somerset
Anton Bruckner arr. C Robertson Locus Iste
J.S. Bach arr. J Bates Inventions 1-4
Charles Gounod arr. J Bates Finale from Faust

Second Half

John Philip Sousa arr. J Bates The Thunderer
Jonathan Bates Dreamscapes
Percy Grainger arr. J Bates Molly on the Shore
Kentaro Sato arr. J Bates Tsuna’ngari
Paul Desmond/Dave Brubeck arr. J Bates Take Five
J. B. Arban arr. C Robertson Carnival of Venice
Euphonium Soloist: Chris Robertson
Jonathan Bates Mists of the Mountains
IV. A Tale of Two Peaks