Dark Horse Consort - Viedanck

The Dark Horse Consort is an early brass ensemble that is still touring and performing on period correct instruments. This recording of Johann Viedanck's Sonata 31 is a beautiful example of the pretty sounds that these instruments are able to produce.

Viedanck may be a lesser known composer so a little information about him was that he was a student of Schutz at the Dresden court chapel. He was a German violinist and cornettist as well as a baroque composer in the early 1600's.

The Dark Horse Consort often brings in other instruments and vocalist into their performances, but primarily consist of  brass quintet using 2 cornettist and 3 sackbuts. I point this out of the popularity of brass quintets and because of its similarities to the first brass quintet with the Distin family quintet that used 3 horns and 2 trombones.