UCL Brass Quintet: West Side Story Selections

This performance records chamber brass work as first trumpet in a UCL brass quintet, with repertoire from Bernstein’s West Side Story including Maria, Somewhere, and America.

The entry is included because brass quintet playing foregrounds chamber balance, rhythmic precision, stylistic clarity, and independent part leadership. It also complements the larger-orchestra and musical-theatre records on this site.

Compared with symphony orchestra playing, this format gives each part more exposure and makes intonation, articulation, and phrase direction more immediately audible. It is therefore a useful record of chamber responsibility as well as a record of musical-theatre-influenced repertoire.