Brian Kelly: Suite Parisienne Brass Quintet: Ensemble de Cuivres

Contemporary British composer Brian Kelly has composed a series of place-inspired suites, including the Cuban Suite and the New Orleans Suite. The Suite Parisienne’s four movements suggest the Paris of years gone by QuartierLatin, Promenade, Memoire, Moulin Rouge in music that shows a deep understanding of brass instruments and a lively, sophisticated setting of melodies that are almost, but not quite, French tunes. The solistic opportunities foreach instrument are generously shared and the three livelier movements make a brilliant frame for the longing tone of the Memoire movement.