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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]
Pavane

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

           Arturo Marquez "Danza del Melodía" [excerpt]
Danza del Melodia

           Gustav Holst "Wind Quintet in Ab" [excerpt]
Quintet in Ab

           Paul Douglas "Foyveblas" [excerpt]
Foyveblas

           Carl Nielsen "Wind Quintet, Op. 43" [excerpt]
Wind Quintet, Op. 43

           Paul Pierné "Suite Pittoresque" [excerpt]
Suite Pittoresque

           Gunther Schuller "Suite for Wind Quintet" [excerpts]
Suite - Movement 1
Suite - Movement 2