Septura Brass - Kleptomania: Pilfered Piano

The cream of the UK's brass musicians perform a programme of music arranged from great piano works.

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Septura is a brass septet from the United Kingdom touring with Chamber Music New Zealand.

It brings together leading players from the London scene: trumpeters Simon Cox, Huw Morgan and Alan Thomas, trombonists Matthew Knight, Matthew Gee and Dan West, and tuba player Pete Smith.

The combination of three trumpets, three trombones and a tuba is a standard grouping taken from the brass section of the orchestra (minus the French horns).

But strangely, as a chamber ensemble, this is a completely new invention. The group found that they had absolutely no existing repertoire to play. So they just had to go out and create their own, and a large part of what they’ve created is arrangements of other pieces – in this particular programme, they've stolen from the piano.