* Summit Hill BQ CDs
The Summit Hill Brass Quintet
The Summit Hill Brass Quintet has performed in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, area since 1977. Their unique repertoire includes a large number of works by J.S. Bach, contemporary works by Etler, Reynolds, Bozza and others (including Baldwin), and many popular song arrangements.
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Music for Al's Breakfast
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1. Coffee? |
The music on the CD is a tribute to the 14-stool hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Dinkytown, adjacent to the University of Minnesota campus. Euphonium soolist Thomas Ashworth is featured on the last tasty cuts on this album. Baldwin is a regular at Al's Breakfast, and the Summit Hill Brass Quintet plays an outdoor concert there every spring. They get a free breakfast. The sheet music for Music for Al's Breakfast is available from Carl Fischer (published by Balquhidder Music).
American as Apple Pie
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1. Bugler's Holiday
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Yes, that's David and his mom on the cover! This wonderful music is mostly from the early 1900s, but there are a few from the 1950s and '60s, including Samuel Baron's ingenious and stirring "Impressions of a Parade."
Old American Songs
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1. General Mixup USA |
Lee Dummer, Dave Hagedorn, and Pam Humphrey join the SHBQ for the 41 songs, calls, and ditties on this album. The title track is an 18-song medley of tunes that will be familiar to most Americans (over a certain age!).
Sugar Plums
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1. Joy to the World |
Finally, a Christmas CD! And this one has the songs you'd expect, but it also has gems like "Now the Time is Fulfilled" and "Swingle Bells" as well as a sublime rendition of Gesu Bambino. It's all backed up by the great percussion of Dave Hagedorn.
Christmas Up North
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1. Carol of the Bells |
David has always bee fascinated by the Messsiah because of its continued immense popularity since its creation in 1742. Even though eight of the nine movements included here are for vocal soloists or full chorus, Baldwin feels "it makes for more powerful music when transcribed for brass alone." You may just find yourself agreeing with him.
Bach and Mozart
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J.S. Bach: Conc'to No. 1, BWV 972 (after Vivaldi) |
Antonio Vivaldi wrote hundreds of wonderfully crafted concertos, and a young Johann Sebastian Bach learned a great deal from copying many of those concertos. Bach added new melodic lines and more virtuosic rhythms.
While the quintet members thought that playing Mozart's 29-minute-long Quintet in G Major on brass instruments was an unnatural act, they felt it was well worth the effort. After all, it is some of the greatest music ever written.
Mozart and Bach
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W.A. Mozart - Divertimento J.S. Bach - Prelude and Fugue in C Minor J.S. Bach - Prelude and Fugue in D Minor W.A. Mozart - Quintet in E-flat Major J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in F Major J.S. Bach |
This is the ninth CD the Summit Hill Brass Quintet has made. The group has enjoyed playing this virtuosic and significant music for many years. The group's goal is to have as much fun with music as possible, and they have been pursuing that goal relentlessly, while striving to present some of the world's best music in new and exciting ways as brass music.
Renaissance and Romance
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1. Victorious Love - Gastoldi |
This CD presents some of David’s favorite transcriptions, done over a period of 40 years and performed by the SHBQ for weddings, graduations, and concerts. Music of the Renaissance sounds particularly good on modern brass instruments, the sounds of which may very closely reflect composers’ original intentions. Romantic period gems on this CD are from Elgar, Greig, Vaughan Williams, Fauré, and Walton. Members of the St. Anthony Brass Quintet have joined the SHBQ many times for church services and concerts, and this is their first recorded release together.
Christmas in Minnesota: Warm thoughts
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1. Halleluiah from Messiah - Handel |
Dave Baldwin said of this CD, “The transcriptions and arrangements included here have been done over a long period of time and it is extremely satisfying to finally hear them as I imagined - or even better with Dave Hagedorn’s improvised percussion stylings! My sincere heart-felt thanks to the other members of the Summit Hill Brass Quintet for their musicianship and dedication to this project.”
University of Minnesota ALUMNI Brass Choir
& The Summit Hill Brass Quintet
Magnificat: Antiphonal Music & other classics
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The University of Minnesota |
| 1. Chorale: O Blessed Jesu - Bach 2. Magnificat - Gabrieli 3. Music for Queen Mary (ed. Robert King): March, Anthem, Canzona - Purcell 4. Chorale: Near Thee Would I Be Staying - Bach 5. Alleluia (arr. Carl Kandel) - Gallus 6. Ch’ale: The Will of God Always Be Done - Bach 7. Fanfare “La Peri” - Dukas 8. Chorale: The Crafty World - Bach 9. Canzon noni toni (ed. Greg Barnes) - Gabrieli 10. Chorale: When Life Begins to Fail Me - Bach |
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| The Summit Hill Brass Quintet David Baldwin, Pam Humphrey, Gwen Anderson, David Stevens, Scott Anderson |
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| 11. Fanfare - Lemmens 12. March Religeuse - Guillmant 13. Rondeau - Mouret 14. Adagio and Allegro, K. 594 - Mozart 15. Overture to the Beggar’s Opera - Pepusch 16. Let All Nations Praise the Lord - Leisring |
This Alumni Brass Choir includes former students of Dr. Baldwin at the University of Minnesota from 1971 to 2016 and who had continued to be members of various music groups after their graduation.This alumni event was recorded Novemebr 12, 2016, at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis. Tracks 11–17 are the Summit Hill Brass Quintet, and were recorded at House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul on July 2, 2014.
This CD is available from David by email, telephone at 651-216-3001, or mail to 532 Angola Rd., Cornwall, NY 12518.
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