Rating : - Good music, good fun
This is a very enjoyable CD. It does not include "serious" wind quintet repertoire (very underrated and ignored music, by the way), but many transcriptions of well know tunes, like Dvorak's Slavonic Dances, Bizet's Carmen, Strauss' pizzicato polka (yes) and so on, that they have been playing as bises in their concerts. This is one of the specialities of the Moraguès quintet (thanks to their oboist, David Walter), and the results are amazing. Forget your prejudices about the original scores (which are absolutely respectable, of course) and have a go. There is a lot of good humour all the way along, and a very very skillful playing from all of them, careful tuning and musical phrasing. At this price, it is a bargain, I only regret that the recordings of this group are so difficult to find. Definitely recommended.