Coming Soon: New Wind Music

After an unfortunate delay getting ready, we’re pleased to announce several new pieces of music for winds from composer Emma Arandjelović will be published by us later this month and in August.

These exciting new pieces will be followed by a wind arrangement of part of a string quartet by John Blackwood McEwen, and a piece for choir (in our upcoming new choral series launch later in the year). Details to follow.

The first two wind pieces are as follows:

Gaia - Mother Earth (2021)

For wind sextet (fl/ob/cl/hn/bcl/bn). Duration: 4' 30''

Commissioned by the University of St Andrews in response to Katerina Evangelou's Gaia – Mother Earth from the Art of Energy Gallery, and premiered by the St Andrews Scholarship Wind Quintet, with associate teacher Alex South.

“I was struck by the evocatively vivid colours and bold shapes in Evangelou’s artworks, each of which represents a different source of renewable energy: wave, geothermal, solar, and tidal. As with Evangelou’s work, this piece focuses on the idea of renewable energy as humanity’s “regenesis” and a cause for hope, though the precarious nature of our situation is hinted at in the final chord.”

Piob Mhor (2020)

For wind quintet (fl/ob/cl/bcl/bn). Duration: 3' 20''

“This lively wind quintet takes inspiration from one of the most characteristic traditional instruments of Scotland - the Great Highland Bagpipes (known as Piob Mhor in Gaelic). Piobaireachd is a traditional form of theme and variations played on the pipes, and in my own interpretation of this unique art form I have employed a contemporary performance technique on the oboe to recreate the sound of the bagpipes.”

The sheet music can be found in our shop here: https://www.moonhousemusic.com/shop/p/piob-mohr-quintet