Great to see that A Winter’s Night has received another accolade and has been chosen as “Album of the Weekend” for Scala Radio on the weekend before Christmas. Starting on Angellica Bell’s 7am Saturday morning show on the 19th December, tracks will be played from the recording throughout the weekend. Since its release in October…
Really chuffed to find out that A Winter’s Night has been chosen as Alexander Armstrong’s Classic FM Album of the Week. Recorded by Signum Records, it’s such a fabulous collection of Christmas music, new and old, and includes two solo quintet numbers alongside the carols we perform with the Choristers of Winchester College School and…
“The sound of Onyx Brass lifts this collection of Christmas favourites from Winchester College Chapel Choir – Cecilia McDowall’s A Winter’s Night is a particularly effective miniature cycle, and the traditional carols are resplendent in festal arrangements for choir, organ and brass.” Presto Classical, Dec 2020 Now we are entering the Christmas season it’s good to see…
Way back in 2014 we recorded the music that Dave had composed for his sister’s wedding. Originally planned as just a personal momento, the recording was taken in studio conditions so what better than to release it as a single to lighten moods in these dark days of Winter and Covid-19 lockdowns. In two versions,…
Released on 16th October 2020, by Signum Records, this is a beautiful collection of Christmas music fantastically sung by Winchester College Chapel Choir directed by Howard Ionascu featuring added sparkle from Onyx Brass. It includes many of the popular seasonal numbers in brand new arrangements especially for this recording, and features two solo quintet numbers,…
Over the weekend of 4/5 October, we got together along with a few friends to record a new disc for Chandos Records. Revisiting our collaboration with John Wilson from Fanfares, the recording has Festmusik der Stadt Wien by Richard Strauss as its centrepiece and brought together the finest brass-playing talent from across Britain.
Also included on the disc will be new arrangements of vocal motets, again by Strauss and smaller scale transcriptions for the quintet of music by Brahms, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Rubinstein and Franz.
We will keep you posted with the release date.
Here is the line up:
Trumpets – Alan Thomas, Niall Keatley, Philip Cobb, James Fountain, Christian Barraclough, Simon Cox, Ryan Linham, Catherine Knight, Richard Blake, Matthew Williams
Trombones – Amos Miller, Peter Moore, Matthew Gee, Matthew Knight, Richard Watkin
Bass Trombones – Dan West, Paul Lambert
Tubas – David Gordon Shute Sasha Koushk-Jalali
Horns – Andrew Sutton, David Pyatt
Timpani – Scott Bywater
