Two Pieces for Wind Quintet (Ropartz)

Guy Ropartz's Two Pieces for Wind Quintet (Deux pièces pour quintette à vent) is a composition for wind quintet composed in 1924, published in 1926 by Durand, and first performed in 1927.^[1][2] In 1978 it was recorded on LP by the Boehm Quintette for the Orion label, along with wind quintets by Irwin Bazelon and Franz Danzi.^[3] In a review of the recording in Fanfare, Joel Flegler described the work as "pleasantly innocuous, in that well-crafted, inconsequential way of every French wind work I've ever heard."^[4] The piece also appears on the 1998 CD, Woodwind: The Danish Wind Quintet.

Portrait of Guy Ropartz by Jac Pohier

Structure

The work is scored for a quintet of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn and is structured in two movements of differing tempos :

1. Lent (slow). Duration: 4 minutes, 42 seconds^[5]
2. Vif (lively). Duration: 4 minutes, 56 seconds