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Please enjoy this sampling of our diverse repertoire!

These live, unedited clips were recorded during the summer of 2010 at St. Anselm's Anglican Church, Vancouver, BC using two matched NADY SCM 1000 tube condenser microphones and a Marantz PMD-670 compact flash digital recorder.

Ventos wind quintet members at the time of this recording: Jeff Pelletier- flute, Lauris Davis- oboe, Mike Dowler- clarinet, Heather Walker- horn, Olivia Martin- bassoon

           Gabriel Fauré (arr. Cheyron) "Pavane" [excerpt]

           Alec Wilder "Quintet No. 1 - "Up Tempo"- Third Movement" [complete]

           Arturo Marquez "Danza del Melodía" [excerpt]

           Carl Nielsen "Quintet - First Movement" [excerpt]

           Paul Douglas "Foyveblas - Zurisee" [excerpt]

           Paul Pierné "Suite Pittoresque - Les Oiseaux et le Chat" [excerpt]

           Gunther Schuller "Suite - I. Prelude" [excerpt]

           Gunther Schuller "Suite - II. Blues" [complete]

           Gustav Holst "Quintet in Ab - First Movement" [excerpt]

You may also enjoy these clips of an earlier Ventos concert!**

To listen to an .mp3, click the Listen hyperlink on single movement works. 
For multiple movement works, click on the the movement name.

Recorded Live, June 5, 2005 Saint Francis of Assisi, San Francisco, CA • Matched pair of Rode NT5 microphones in "ORTF" setup • Marantz PMD 670 compact flash recorder • Stereo, 48kHz sampling rate Special thanks to Todd Michael Willis, our recording engineer for this concert.

La Cheminee du Roi Rene, Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

• I: Cortege
  II: Aubade
  III: Jongleurs
  IV: La Maousinglade
  V: Joutes sur L'Arc
  VI: Chasse a Valabre
  VII: Madrigal - Nocturne

La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin, Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

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Walking Tune, Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

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**Ventos members at the time of this recording:
Jeff Pelletier-flute, Max Hollander-oboe, Jeff Carwile-clarinet, Cathleen Torres-horn,
Maria Yuin-bassoon