Chaconne has a large and diverse repertoire of music spanning 600 years including many works specially written for the group; these have been commissioned to fit in with Chaconne's aim of pushing forward the musical boundaries as well as of presenting entertaining programs of the highest musical standards.

A typical Chaconne Brass performance will range from renaissance to modern, classics to experimental and from the profound to the downright silly!

Chaconne Brass have performed to audiences at the Queen Elisabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Conway Hall, St John's Smith Square and St Martin's-in-the-Fields London, St David's Hall Cardiff, die Philharmonie Berlin, BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, BBC1 TV and Classic FM.

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Music Written for Chaconne

Tomaso Albinoni (arr Mark Kesel) – Concerto Op 7 No 6 CBCD597
Matthew Allsop – Shaping the Invisible (Chaconne commission, 2004, electric guitar, ambient sounds, quintet)
JS Nach (arr mark Kesel) – Allegro  from Sonata No 1 in E flat CBCD597
J S Bach (arr Chris Mitchell) – Fugue XXII
J S Bach (arr Chaconne) – Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (quintet and organ)
JS Bach (arr Chris Mitchell) – Siciliano
Richard Baker – Keck (Chaconne commission, 1999)
Jacqueline Binns – The Circus (Chaconne commission, 1988) CBCD597; CBCD599 (excerpt)
William Boyce (arr Mark Kesel) – Symphony No 1 CBCD597 (Adagio only)
Howard Burrell – Procession (quintet plus organ)
Ben Castle – Birthday Blues (Chaconne commission, 1999) CBCD1101
Ben Castle – Picture This (Chaconne commission, 1999) CBCD1101
Giovanni Coperario (John Cooper)(arr James Baker) – Fantasia
Roger Dean – Flying (Chaconne commission, 1999) CBCD1101
Claude Debussy (arr Chris Mitchell) – Des pas sur la neige (Preludes, book VI)
(Jonkheer) Jacob van Eyck (arr Torbjörn Hultmark) – Doen Daphne d’over schoone Maeght CBCD597
George Gershwin (arr Torbjörn Hultmark) – Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) CBCD1101
Claude Gervaise (arr Torbjörn Hultmark) – French Renaissance Dances CBCD597
Edvard Grieg (arr Chris Mitchell) – Three Norwegian Songs
Franz Xaver Gruber (arr Torbjörn Hultmark) – Silent Night (soprano and suspended handbells)
George Frideric Handel (arr Chaconne) – Watering Can Music CBCD599
Laurence Harwood – Gatsby!
Ivor Hodgson – Shining Tor (Chaconne commission, 1999)
Anthony Holborne (arr James Baker) – The Funerals CBCD1101
Gustav Holst (arr Torbjörn Hultmark) – Neptune (from The Planets)(with choir/voices)
Torbjörn Hultmark – Fanfare for Linda CBCD597
Torbjörn Hultmark – An Iberian Draft CBCD1101; CBCD904 (excerpt)
Torbjörn Hultmark – A Love Song to the Moon CBCD1101
Torbjörn Hultmark – Psalm (based on a theme by (Jonkheer) Jacob van Eyck) CBCD1101
Torbjörn Hultmark – A Sketch of Gaul CBCD1101
Georg Nepomuk Hummel (arr Chris Mitchell) – Variations CBCD597
Mark Kesel – Amana CBCD1001
Mark Kesel – Genesis CBCD904
Mark Kesel – Nachna
Orlandus Lassus (arr Torbjörn Hultmark) – Fantasia CBCD597
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet (arr Mark Kesel) – Concerto
Edward Longstaff – Symphony for Brass (Chaconne commission, 2004)
Edward Longstaff – Nativity Suite (Chaconne commission, 2005)
Henry Lowther – Diversées (Chaconne commission, 1999) CBCD1101
Cecilia McDowall – Tango oscuro (Chaconne Commission, 2000)
Felix Mendelssohn (arr Chris de Souza) – Christmas Suite (Chaconne Commission, 2005)
Chris Mitchell – Celebración de vida
Chris Mitchell – Cool Samba School CBCD904
Chris Mitchell – Que pasa! CBCD599 (live rec 1); CBCD1101 (studio rec); CBCD904 (live rec 2)
Jacques Offenbach (arr Chaconne) – Watering Can-Can (played on watering cans and kettles) CBCD904
Michael Omer – Playing for Time (Chaconne commission, 1999)
Tony Osborne – Chaconne Syncopations (Chaconne commission, 1998)
Hieronymus Praetorius (arr Chris Mitchell) – Lamentations of Jeremiah CBCD597
Henry Purcell (arr Chris Mitchell) – Dido’s Lament (from Dido and Aeneas)
Henry Purcell (arr Torbjörn Hultmark) – Dido’s Lament (from Dido and Aeneas)
Henry Purcell (arr Torbjörn Hultmark) – Sonata
Sergei Rachmaninov (arr Torbjörn Hultmark) – Vocalise CBCD597
Jean-Philippe Rameau (arr Chris Mitchell) - Ouverture
Jean-Philippe Rameau (arr Chris Mitchell) – Chaconne
Maurice Ravel (arr Torbjörn Hultmark) – Pavane pour une infante défunte
Angela Rolls – Windows (Chaconne commission, 1999)
Camille Saint-Saëns (arr Chris Mitchell) – The Swan (from Carnival of the Animals)
James Saunders – Mouse Trap (Chaconne commission, 1998)
Martin Spain – Scene from a Memory (Chaconne commission, 1998)
Michael Summers – Sailing in the Twilight Sun (Chaconne commission, 1998)
Traditional (arr Chris Mitchell) – Si ya hamba CBCD904
Tim Venison – The Manhattan Project (Chaconne commission, 1999)

Chaconne's General Repertoire

John Addison – Divertimento for Brass
Malcolm Arnold – Quintet for Brass
J S Bach (arr Ronald Romm) – Little Fugue in G minor
J S Bach (arr Eugene Watts) – Sheep May Safely Graze
Eugène Bozza – Sonatine
Victor Evald – Brass Quintet
Giovanni Gabrieli – In Ecclesiis (choir and quintet)
Giovanni Gabrieli – Ricercare del duodecimo  tuono
Ian Finney – Brass Quintet
Vagn Holmboe – Brass Quintet No 1 Op 79
Elgar Howarth – Variations for Brass Quintet
Dan Jenkins – Freeway
Jan Koetsier – Kleiner Cirkusmarsch
Witold Lutoslawski – Mini Overture
Jim Parker – The Golden Section
André Previn – Four Outings
Steve Reich – Clapping Music
Giacchino Rossini (arr Arthur Frackenpohl) – William Tell Overture CBCD599
Esa-Pekka Salonen – Sets
Traditional (arr Don Gillis) – Just a Closer Walk with Thee CBCD599
Fats Waller (arr Lee Norris) – Ain’t Misbehavin’