Arranged by Anthony Robson for 2 clarinets, 2 Basset-horns & 2 Bassoons. This fits this combination perfectly even though Bach would never even have dreamt of it!

During the Renaissance, composers found that brass instruments blend perfectly with human voices. That is why the transition from vocal expressiveness was so simple, giving the trumpet the chance to play - in an instrumental ensemble - one of the most beautiful canzonettas, quintessential of Italian music.

Guadalajara is the quintessential traditional Mexican melody and a mainstay of the repertoire of traditional mariachi bands, whose bright sound I have tried to preserve in this version for a brass ensemble.
Ioan Dobrinescu

Constantin Dimitrescu (1847-1928) was a Romanian cellist, conductor and composer who spent his entire career in Bucharest. He was cellist and then conductor in the National Theatre Orchestra and the Bucharest Philharmonic and later taught cello at the Bucharest Conservatory.

He was one of the main promoters of chamber music in Romania and, as well as founding the first permanent string quartet in Bucharest, he was the first Romanian to write string quartets and instrumental concertos.

Before composing his first string quartets, Dimitrescu wrote numerous chamber works, among them those for cello and piano which form the basis for this edition. (Romanian Serenade op. 9; Prairie op. 10; Romance op. 14;  Peasant Dance op. 15; Berceuse op. 12 and op. 16)

I came upon klezmer music while making radio shows a few years back. Some of these traditional Eastern European melodies stuck with me and I always enjoy hearing them again. One such song is Lekho neraneno, which I arranged for a friend's ensemble.
Ioan Dobrinescu

Ioan Dobrinescu was born in 1960 and studied the violin at the George Enescu Music High school and then composition at the University of Music in Bucharest, from which he graduated in 1986 as head of his class. Among the masters that have marked his artistic path are the late composers and professors Aurel Stroe, Tiberiu Olah, Stefan Niculescu, Alexandru Pascanu, Dan Constantinescu, Anatol Vieru and Constantin Bugeanu.

After a short career in teaching, Ioan Dobrinescu became an editor for Actualitatea Muzicala, the magazine of the Romanian Composers and Musicologists Syndicate. In 1991 he became editor and later artistic counselor for the Romanian Broadcasting Corporation. He is currently the head of the Evaluation Committee for Musical Recordings. Alongside numerous programmes and musical performances across a range of genres, Ioan Dobrinescu has also written as a music critic, presented numerous concerts and produced programme notes.

He has received numerous awards for his compositions, such as the Mihail Jora prize of the Romanian Music Critics Syndicate in 1995 and the Competition for Musical Programmes organized by Radio Brno in the Czech Republic in 1996.

He became a member of UCMR in 1990 and original works and arrangements by him have been played in Romania, France, Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Belgium, The Netherlands and the Republic of Moldova.