If the wind quintet genre has its origins in the early 19th century, it was during the 20th that it came of age. The possibilities that the combination of flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn offered in terms of sounds and musical character are exploited here to the full.

Contents:
PRINTEMPS
- Jacques Ibert: Trois pièces brèves
- Henri Tomasi: Printemps for wind quintet and saxophone
- Darius Milhaud: La Cheminée du roi René
- Charles Kœchlin: Septuor pour instruments à vent
- Jean Françaix: Quintette no 1
- Eugène Bozza: Scherzo pour quintette à vent

SUMMER MUSIC
- Samuel Barber: Summer Music, Op.31
- Elliott Carter: Woodwind Quintet
- Gunther Schuller: Suite
- Kazimierz Machala: American Folk Suite
- Júlio Medaglia: Suite ‘Belle Epoque en Sud-America’; Suite popular brasileira ‘Det is die Brasilianer Luft’
- Heitor Villa-Lobos: Quintette en forme de Chôros
- Liduino Pitombeira: Ajubete jepê amô mbaê

L’AUTUNNO
- Paul Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik, Op.24 No.2 and Septett für Blasinstrumente
- Hans Werner Henze: Quintett and ‘L’autunno’

WINTER SONGS
- Brett Dean: Winter Songs for tenor and wind quintet
- Erkki-Sven Tüür: Architectonics I
- Pēteris Vasks: Music for a deceased friend
- Arvo Pärt: Quintettino, Op.13
- Carl Nielsen: Wind Quintet, Op.43