One of the most satisfying aspects of being part of Onyx Brass is to discover pieces by well-known composers which, for whatever reason, have been neglected – neither performed or recorded. Our Fanfares disc started us out on this journey but the journey continues. The Britten Pears Archive very kindly shared with us sketches from…
We are pleased to announce that our latest collaboration with Chandos Records and John Wilson, Transatlantic will release on 27th June. Composers featured are John Adams, Sir Malcolm Arnold, Leonard Bernstein, Benjamin Britten, George Gershwin, Joseph Horovitz, Gordon Langford, Florence Price, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sir William Walton. As is always our focus, many of…
As part of the celebration and launch of our latest recording in 2025, we are pleased to announce that the group will be making its debut at the Aldeburgh Festival. Central to our visit to Snape Maltings on the 29th June, will be the performance of two neglected works by Benjamin Britten that are on…
At the end of last week, we spent the two days being looked after by the Royal College of Music for our third collaboration with conductor, John Wilson, and fourth with Chandos Records . Our new recording will have music for quintet to large brass ensemble with piano and will contain a mixture of British…
Great to see that Festmusik: A Legacy is getting a lot of notice from the music press. Hot on the heels of the exemplary review from BBC Record Review, both Classical Music Magazine and the specialist brass website, 4Barsrest.com, awarded our Chandos recording 5 stars. Both reviews are very complementary about the title track with…
We are pleased to announce that our latest recording, Festmusik: A Legacy is now available to the general public. Recorded by Chandos Records, it’s available in multiple formats across all the major streaming services, it’s another collaboration with the award winning conductor John Wilson, the acclaimed British brass chamber group, Septura and other talented friends that is guaranteed to raise the roof. For more information about the genesis of the whole project, take a look at the full promotional release video including an interview with David Gordon Shute that gives an idea of the decades of planning that has gone into the project.
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