Samuel SCHEIDT. - PER GADE's INTERNATIONAL BRASS QUINTET. JAPAN 1982

Samuel SCHEIDT (born 1587, Halle, Saxony — died March 24, 1654, Halle) German composer and organist (The Baroque Era).
From BATLLE SUITE" (or: Galliard Battaglia).
After study in Amsterdam, he returned to his native Halle and spent his entire life there in various musical offices, including court organist and later kapellmeister to the Margrave of Brandenburg. He remained in Germany under "The 30 Years War", managing to survive by teaching and by taking a succession of smaller jobs until the restoration of stability allowed him to resume his post as Kapellmeister. - Scheidt was the first internationally significant German composer for the organ, and represents the flowering of the new north German style.

THE BATTLE SUITE: Three separate compositions, each composed in 1621, are frequently grouped together to form this suite: the "Galliard Battaglia," the "Courant Dolorosa," and the "Canzon ad imitationem Bergam" more often called the "Canzon Bergamasque." These pieces were originally written for five viols with a continuo realized from the instrumental bass line, but Scheidt indicated that other instruments could be used.

The performance: Must be with the two trumpets on each side of the remaining 3 membes in the middle. In this way we get a kind of stereo effect (question-answer).
Per Gade says: We used it as one of out encore pieces, a show piece for the two trumpets",

PER GADE's INTERNATIONAL BRASS QUINTET. JAPAN 1982
This recording was found recently. It is from a concert in Japan and was recorded on a cassette tape. No changes have been added to the recording, no notes has been replaced in digital re-mastering and all that magic. It is a "here and now" performance! What you hear is what you get. It is a live recording from a two hours concert: real life here and now!
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Professor Per Gade also told us the following, when we asked him:
- "This International Brass Quintet was the very first professional Brass Quintet in Japan, established in 1981. Each of the five members were very busy with their main jobs every day, in symphony orchestras, or as professors at Music Colleges/Academies, so we did not really have time for practicing together. So before each concert we held a serious meeting witha pot of coffee and sorted things out in a hurry, but in a highly professional way. Then a couple of hours before the concert, at the sound test, we took care of running through some important or difficult lines, all in a serious way. So what you have here is very much sight reading on the spot, in a live performance".

MEMBERS:
Allan Cox (USA), trumpet (professor).
Yukihiro Sekiyama, trumpet (NHK Symph. Orch. Japan).
Yoshi Ohno, french horn (Tokyo Philharmonic Orch. Japan).
Per Gade, (COSMOPOLITAN) trombone (slide & valve trombones) (professor).
SLIDE TROMBONE ON THIS PIECE OF MUSIC.
Hiroyuki Yasumoto, tuba (Tokyo Metropolitan Symph. Orch.).