While not as common as the brass quintet, the brass quartet has a few pieces of repertoire that works pretty well for the instrumentation. It is essentially a brass quintet without the second trumpet.
This piece is a work called Solarium and it is scored for brass quartet and piano. It is an exciting piece of new music with the performance taking place at a collaborative piano recital at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2010. There is a lot of emphasis on the piano in this piece, with the quartet acting as more of an accompaniment than a solo group. The performance itself is quite good and the recording quality is not bad either. It would definitely be a fun piece of music to add to a recital assuming you have the skilled performers necessary to pull this work off, as it seems quite challenging.
Interesting piece, especially since we were just discussing the use of piano with quintet the other day in class.
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