Manuel de Falla – Final Dance – Jota from The Three-cornered Hat

Arranged for Brass Quintet by Ivaylo Hristov.

Since it is St. John's Night, a large number of people drop in across the bridge and fill the esplanade in a procession, carying a banner on which the effigy of the Corregidor is displayed. General dance, during which the old coxcomb is identified, and the miller and his wife are reconciled. The Corregidor, scoffed at by the crowd, has received so many cuffs that he lets himslef drop to the ground completely confounded. The people lay hold of him and joyously toss him on a blanket, like some rueful puppet. This is the final Jota from the ballet El sombrero de tres picos (1919), from Manuel de Falla.

4' 15"

Penko Gelev.

ISMN 979-0-707683-18-7

Lιo Delibes – Le Roi s'amuse – Scθne du Bal – Six Airs de Danse dans le Style ancien.

Arranged for Brass Quintet by Ivaylo Hristov.

Incidental music to the first act of the play Le Roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo – a nocturnal party at the Louvre palace in the early 16^th century. Concert performance version by the author from 1889.

13' 00"

Penko Gelev.

ISMN 979-0-707683-22-4

Manuel de Falla – The Neighbours' Dance – Seguidillas from The Three-cornered Hat

Arranged for Brass Quintet by Ivaylo Hristov.

Evening of the St. John's Night (Midsummer's Night). The neighbours come to celebrate the feast at the mill. Men and women drink and dance. It is a fine Andalusian night, fragrant, starlit, and mysterious. Danza de los vecinos – a beautiful Seguidillas, opens act two of the ballet El sombrero de tres picos (1919), from Manuel de Falla.

3' 25"

Penko Gelev.

ISMN 979-0-707683-14-9

Maurice Ravel – Mother Goose – five children's pieces

Arranged for Brass Quintet by Ivaylo Hristov.

First trumpet plays also on tam-tam, second trumpet – chimes, horn – water-whistle.

This is probably the best piece of music written for children ever. Each of the quintet members is given wonderful solos throughout the whole work.

16' 55"

Penko Gelev.

ISMN 979-0-707683-05-7

Johannes Brahms – Hungarian Dances 14, 15 & 17

for trombone quartet

Selected and arranged by Ivaylo Hristov.

George Gershwin – Summertime – lullaby from the opera Porgy and Bess

for trombone quartet

Arranged by Ivaylo Hristov.

3'

Penko Gelev.

ISMN 979-0-707683-06-4

Andrian Pervazov – /dev/jam for Trombone and Harp

Recorded on the CD release Embracing The Unknown by John Kenny and Catriona McKay on the Brass Classics label.

8' 35"

Harp and solo part

ISMN 979-0-707683-00-2

...Instead, we shall better listen to the jam, we shall better try to enjoy it if only humanly possible. And, should we ever come across an unmarried locomotive, we shall be very, very careful!

Program notes in English and Bulgarian.

Bulgarian music for trombone and piano Vol. III

Alexander Tanev – Rondo Scherzando (1964)

Boyan Ikonomov – Prelude and Dance (1948)

Milko Kolarov – Autumn Elegy (1998)

Piano and solo part.

Recorded for The Bulgarian Trombone CD.

Milko Kolarov – Concerto

for bass trombone and symphony orchestra

Commissioned by Swiss bass trombone player Johannes Bigler this Concerto was and premiered in 1998 during Varna Summer music festival. It was named by the critics as a brilliant piece... a model of miniature form.

Bass trombone and piano version is also available.

Milcho Leviev – String Quartet 1960, rev. 2019.

Milcho Leviev (1937–2019) composed his String Quartet for his Master’s graduation exam in Composition. This early work, strongly influenced by the music of Paul Hindemith, had a single premiere performance in 1960. In 2019, the score was rediscovered by the Philharmonica String Quartet, whose members took up the task of programming it. While attending one of their rehearsals, Leviev made certain minor amendments to the score.

2 violins, viola and violoncello – 72 pages.

18'

Penko Gelev.

ISMN 979-0-707683-21-7

Robert Aldridge – Tango for Gabriela

Arranged for solo violin and brass ensemble by Ivaylo Hristov.

For 3 trumpets in B, 2 horns in F, trombone, bass trombone, tuba and solo violin.

Slovak violinist Boris Kucharsky had commissioned the American composer Robert Aldridge an encore piece for solo violin and string orchestra — Tango for a Beautiful Woman, inspired by Gabriela Skrabakova. We publish a transcription for solo violin and brass ensemble, where the brass instruments are supposed to play all the time quasi pizzicato.

2' 40"

Penko Gelev.

ISMN 979-0-707683-10-1

Pantcho VladigueroffPancho Vladigerov – Swedish Dance op. 13, No. 2, for two pianos, Urtext

From the stage-music for A Dream Play by August Strindberg composed in 1921.

77.

5' 10"

Pantcho VladigueroffPancho Vladigerov – Four Pieces for piano op. 65 (1973) Urtext

À Ivan Drenikov

5' 00"

Pantcho VladigueroffPancho Vladigerov – Shimmy de concert w/o opus, for two pianos, Urtext

Originally Shimmy orientalico or Chimmy orientalico for violin and piano, and for piano, composed both in 1924.

77.

3' 45"

Claude Debussy – La plus que lente – The More Than Slow – Waltz (1910-1912)

Arranged for Brass Quintet by Ivaylo Hristov.

La plus que lente or The More Than Slow is a work in the manner of English waltz, which gain popularity at the beguinning of the XX^th century in the so called five-o'clock-tea-parties in Parisian salons and cafes. The title refers not so much to the tempo of the waltz as to the time it took to create it—the piece is a production of an entire summer, says Ms. Debussy. Two years later, presenting the orchestration of the waltz to his publisher Jacques Durand, the composer writes: But let's not limit ourselves to beer parlors. Let's think of the numberless five-o'clock teas where assemble the beautiful audiences I've dreamed of.

4' 40"

Penko Gelev.

ISMN 979-0-707683-25-5