Onyx Brass
Celebrating its 30 anniversary in 2023, Onyx Brass continues to be the leading light in establishing the brass quintet as a medium for serious chamber music, combining “staggering virtuosity” (BBC Radio 3) with the entertaining and articulate style that has become the group’s trademark. The group’s extensive discography has received huge critical acclaim; Gramophone hail ‘some of the most thrilling chamber brass-playing of its kind’ and Record Review described the group as a ‘wonderful, virtuosic brass quintet’. Education has always been central of the remit of Onyx Brass: workshops and masterclasses have from Primary School to the Juilliard School, and the group has held several residencies, including 15 years at Imperial College, London.
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Flor Peeters was one of the most significant Catholic composers of the twentieth century, whose deeply spiritual œuvre incorporates elements of Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony. This recording celebrates his Latin choral music, a perfect assimilation of the motu proprio of Pope Pius X in 1903, which was unjustly neglected following the Second Vatican Council but is now sung in both Catholic...
