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German Brass

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Active from
  
1974

Genre
  
Holiday

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Albums
  
Brass Christmas, Wagner: Celebrating Wagner

Members
  
Matthias Höfs, Enrique Crespo, Uwe Köller, Klaus Wallendorf, Walter Hilgers

Profiles

German Brass is a brass ensemble, founded 1974 as a Brass Quintet by Enrique Crespo, named "Deutsches Blechbläserquintett – Solobläser deutscher Spitzenorchester" (German Brass Quintet – Soloists of German top level orchestras).

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In 1985, to record the CD "Bach 300" (Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685) the group was extended by Enrique Crespo to ten performers. The group is well known as the best performing professional brass ensemble in Germany. More than twenty CDs and two DVDs have been recorded to date. German Brass musicians are members of major German symphony orchestras and/or are professors at university schools of music.

The current members are:

Trumpets:

  • Matthias Höfs
  • Uwe Köller
  • Werner Heckmann
  • Christoph Baerwind
  • Trombones:

  • Alexander Erbrich-Crawford
  • Uwe Füssel
  • French horns

  • Wolfgang Gaag
  • Klaus Wallendorf
  • Tuba:

  • Stefan Ambrosius
  • Bach sinfonia from partita no 2 bwv 826 german brass orchestra


    Songs

    Music Was My First Love2001
    Street Parade2001
    Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen2000

    References

    German Brass Wikipedia