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Refractions
“Sotto Voce might be the best euphonium-tuba quartet out there. …a welcome addition to a genre with precious few entries.”

-Barry Kilpatrick
American Record Guide

cover to sotto voce's album refractions

Never before has a brass group chosen to juxtapose early music with contemporary. The resulting collection of new and old music for brass is a delight to listeners and players alike.


Samples


An exerpt from Joan Tower's Fifth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman

An exerpt from Alfonso Ferrabosco's Dovehouse Pavane from the Elizabethan Consort Music suite

An exerpt from John Dowland's Volta from the Elizabethan Consort Music suite

An exerpt from Pat Shulz's Refractions

An exerpt from "Allegretto Giocosso", the third movement of Jan Koetsier's Wolkenschatten

An exerpt from the anonymously composed With This Love

An exerpt from the first movement from Frank Lynn Payne's Quartet for Tubas

An exerpt from Mike Forbes's Cosmic Voyage

An exerpt from Mike Forbes's Go!


Tracklisting

Fifth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman - Joan Tower
Elizabethan Consort Music - adapted by Mike Forbes
1. Almayne - Alfonso Ferrabosco II
2. Joyne Hands - Thomas Morley
3. Widow's Myte - Anthony Holborne
4. Dovehouse Pavane - Alfonso Ferrabosco II
5. Why Are You Ladies Staying - Thomas Weelkes
6. Hark! I Hear Some Dancing - Thomas Weelkes
7. Allemande - Thomas Simpson
8. Volta - John Dowland
9. Refractions - Patrick Schulz
Wolkenschatten -Jan Koetsier
I. Tranquillo
II. Presto
III. Allegretto giocoso
Canzon -Samuel Scheidt, arr. Stevens
With This Love - Anonymous, arr. Forbes
Canzona per sonare No. 2 - Giovanni Gabrieli, arr. Forbes
Quartet for Tubas - Frank Lynn Payne
1. Allegro
2. Andante
3. Vivo
Cosmic Voyage - Mike Forbes
Loch Lomond - Traditional, arr. Forbes
Go! - Mike Forbes