Enrique Crespo (1941-)
Odysee in Brass
Spiritual Rhapsody
Ballade for Two Wings
Al son de Cuba
Spirit of Brass-Fanfare
Horns of My Soul
T-bone Blues

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
"Also sprach Zarathustra"

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (-1948)
"El Tango la Cumparsita"

Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941
Black Bottom Stomp

Dooley Wilson (1886-1953)
"It Was a Very Good Year"

Waldir Azevedo (1923-1980)
Brasileirinho

Chucho Monge/Ernesto Cortázar/Manuel Esperón
Feliz año Mexico

Dámaso Pérez Prado (1916-1989)
Tres Mambos

Herman Hupfeld (1894-1951)
As Time Goes By

Pablo Beltrán Ruiz (1915-2008)
¿Quién Serà?

Enrique Villoldo (1861-1919)
El Choclo

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
Cornets Chop Suey

Cole Porter (1891-1964)
It’s Alright With Me

Eddie Cooley/John Davenport
Fever

Ary Barroso (1903-1964)
Samba de Rio

Turner Layton/Henry Creamer
Way Down Yonger in New Orleans

Donald Heywood (1893-1967)
I'm Coming Virginia

Paul Barbarin (1899-1969)
Bourbon Street Parade

Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908-1992)
Camino del Indio-Piedra y Camino

Con Conrad/J. Russel Robinson
Singin’ the Blues

Zequinha de Abreu (1880-1935)
Tico Tico

Consuelo Velázquez (1916-2005)
Basame mucho

Mariano Mores (1918-2016)
Adios Pampa mia

Tito Puente (1923-2000)
Oye Como va

German Brass

Matthias Höfs, trompette
Uwe Köller, trompette
Werner Heckmann, trompette
Christoph Baerwind, trompette
Alexander Erbrich-Crawford, trombone
Fritz Winter, trombone
Ewe Füssel, trombonne
Wolfgang Gaag, cor
Klaus Wallendorf, cor
Stefan Ambrosius, tuba
Herbert Wachter, batterie

When you read the name German Brass, you know just where you’re at: here are musicians who can conjure up the most finely-honed degrees of timbre, volume and pitch that it is humanly possible to produce on brass instruments. It rings true: German Brass represents the hallmark of the highest quality brass music made in Germany – or as Concerti magazine put it: “Trailblazers of the Brass scene”. The ensemble’s last album was all about pre-Christmas anticipation, joyful messages and everything that revolves round Bach, Telemann and Handel. Brass Hommage takes us to the opposite end of the calendar spectrum. Things are colourful, rhythmic, exotic even. After a bombastic introduction by way of Strauss’s Thus spake Zarathustra it’s off to the south and the west, armed with a sun hat and shades: two CDs feature classics ranging from Black Bottom Stomp, via Quien Sera, As Time Goes By, Tico Tico to Oye Como va. This is the perfect programme for hot days and balmy nights. With their virtuosity, their brilliant musicality and their own special charm, they have definitely placed their stamp/ made their mark on brass culture. Their declared goal is to reproduce the grand-scale resonant sound of an organ. That’s what inspires German Brass’s arrangers and members to produce that sound which has given this top-flight ensemble an inimitable edge for decades. They have been making German brass history now for more than 40 years. Founded in 1974, they seem not to have grown a day older since then. Proof of that can be seen in their full concert schedule. The fact that the ensemble recruits musicians from Germany’s top orchestras means that they can offer outstanding quality, and their collaboration over decades still has audiences gasping, wide-eyed and perking up their ears to hear this musical cornucopia.