Reviews

“such technically accomplished players… Berio’s pungently antiphonal Call showed imagination about how a brass quintet could be freshly deployed”.

“There's no denying that the standard of performance is exceptional. In the first two concerts on one day the Carducci String Quartet, the Lancier Brass Quintet and the pianist Alasdair Beatson astonished with their ability and maturity… John White's Doggerel Machine for brass quintet splendidly mimicked the music of the Ealing Studios comedies and the Lanciers played it so well.”

"The Lancier Brass Quintet displayed impressive sonority and teamwork. The group’s best music was fore and aft, Berio’s Call, a sit-up-and-take-notice piece from 1985, the players required to stand in a line a significant gap in between each, and parade a range of dynamics and mutes. Doggerel Machine by John White ended the evening on a light note, a sequence of vignettes, some more punctuation than a ‘proper’ movement, and including a lung-filling cadenza for the tuba and a sense of novelty that was diverting."

“The Lancier Brass Quintet demonstrated the health of British brass playing with commanding authority”

“the fine Lancier Brass Quintet”

“a fantastic group of players”

“I was very impressed by the standard of brilliant technique and musicianship displayed by the Lancier Brass Quintet. Having played with many similar groups over more than fifty years, I find the high quality of these young musicians heartening and refershing. Every member works at a level that was almost unimaginable in my early days and rarely heard over the years. This was real virtuosity from every instrument”

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