German Brass Wind/Brass Ensemble Benelux and various countries

Brass players in perfect playing mood

German Brass thrills audiences with an incredible Christmas concert in Regensburg. The apparent ease with which outstanding virtuosity is presented here never loses its seriousness in the breathtakingly sophisticated and cleverly collaged arrangements. […] The ensemble got the special gift of combining its absolute top class with an artistic entertainment value that is unrivalled in this art form. […]
The joy of playing is an all too often used attribute, but here it is audible and visible in every respect. It simply couldn't be better – musically, artistically and technically.

Mittelbayerische, Andreas Meixner, 21.12.2025

50th Anniversary: Best-of-Clips

With precision, wit and virtuosity
Brilliant, humorous and entertaining
NDR Hamburg | Album of the week 08.09.2024

Pioneer among the brass ensembles
Elbphilharmonie

Homage in brass
Hamburger Abendblatt

German Brass continues to set standards after 50 years
Mannheimer Morgen

Furious German Brass
Southwest Press

Firework at opening concert

Die Eröffnung des Swiss Chamber Music Festival geriet zu einem Feuerwerk an Brillanz und Wortwitz. Da war die musikalisch kaum zu überbietende Spielkunst der German Brass mit den wohl besten Blechbläsern aus Deutschland. […] Nach John Bastons Concerto Nr. 6 und J.S. Bachs Chorälen und der Toccata und Fuge d-Moll begann eine unterhaltsame Folge von Medleys bekannter Musikstücke Around the World. Dies war ein Fest höchstklassiger Spielfreude mit einer bestechenden Moderation des Hornisten Klaus Wallendorf.

Berner Oberländer, Martin Natterer, 13.09.2021

Trip to America: CD of the week

The new album Trip to America is “CD of the week” at rbb Kultur: the renowned brass ensemble German Brass has managed an "entertaining music tour through North America, sound technically brilliant at the highest level. The long-standing brass ensemble knows what expectations its audience has got and fulfilled these with this new album once again.”

rbb Kulturradio, Judith Kochendörfer, 18.10.2019

Top class German Brass fascinates audience

The brilliant performance was topped by the interpretations of Bach's famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue: in Bach the "original" organ sound was perfectly illusioned and the delicate polyphonic balance became transparent. The version of the Rhapsody with its typical Gershwin sound and all its dynamic and technical finesses almost let forget its origin. [...] The second part of the concert marked a musical ramble "around the world" featuring a potpourri of Porgy and Bess and Spanish and French music. Huge plaudits with three brilliant and jazzy encores which led into standing ovations.

Neues Volksblatt Linz, Paul Stepanek, 21.09.2019

CD: Brass Hommage

Whether harmonies, rhythmic sophistication or playing with unorthodox timbres: this album is a concentrated demonstration of the brass universe and all the compositional possibilities that open up here. The new double album demonstrates that even after dozens of CD productions, worldwide appearances worldwide and various awards this "national team" plays at a top level.

BR-Klassik, Matthias Keller, 20.06.2018

CD: Brass Hommage

Brass Hommage is een eerbetoon aan de onnavolgbare klank die German Brass beroemd heeft gemaakt. Het erkent het succes van een audio-visie: een kamermuziekensemble met tien koperblazers, een groep met het geluidspotentieel van een machtig orgel, een symfonieorkest of een bigband - een sonore visie die de Duitse koperblazers hebben bereikt met de muzikale elegantie die hun eigen is.[…] De speciale arrangementen van German Brass hebben hen tot uitvinders van een verfijnd klankidioom gemaakt dat hun handelsmerk zou worden. [...] Warm aanbevolen.

Stretto Belgium, Michel Dutrieue, 05.08.2018

CD: Brass Heralds

The musicians of German Brass also create on their latest album a balance between brilliant sounds and an almost intimate and filigree density of setting (…) The semiquavers, which are flowing through the individual instrumental groups are as precise and perfect despite of the tempo as if they came from just one single instrument only.

<link http: www.klassik.com>www.klassik.com, Moritz Vollmer, 20.12.2017

CD: Brass Heralds

German Brass presents itself in a Bach-Händel-Telemann programme in the great freestyle. The ten virtuoso brass players are masters in the musical presentation and give the festive programme a particularly glamorous character.

Pizzicato Luxembourg, Remy Franck, 19.11.2017

CD: Brass Heralds

Many can play loud. But the intimate density of setting as for example in the transcription of Bach's Siciliano has only to offer an ensemble such as German Brass (…)The new album masters the ambition that classical music connoisseurs should not miss the original for a single moment despite its transcription - with bravura and an evident ease.

BR Klassik, Matthias Keller, 19.10.2017

CD: Celebrating Wagner

Astonishing, even incredible things can be found here: The trumpets are deceptively similar to the endless trill figure of the woodwinds in the Valkyrie ride or the whirring of the strings in the Spinnerlied from the Flying Dutchman - such virtuoso numbers were unthinkable even for Wagner.

Berliner Zeitung 18.05.2013

CD: Celebrating Wagner

In exciting arrangements by Matthias Höfs, which are both familiar and somehow different, the ten brass instruments create a pure goosebump feeling. And at the very latest when listening to the second piece, the "pilgrim's choir" from the third act of Tannhäuser, you have to lie everything aside and get completely absorbed in the music. Our recommendation: definitely to listen!

Clarino, May 2013

50jähriges Jubiläum 2024: Best-of-Clips

Mit Präzision, Spielwitz und Virtuosität
Brillant, humorvoll und kurzweilig
NDR – Album der Woche, 08.09.2024

Pionier unter den Brass-Ensembles
Elbphilharmonie

Huldigung in Blech
Hamburger Abendblatt

Aus Blech mach Gold
Concerti

German Brass setzt nach 50 Jahren weiter Maßstäbe
Mannheimer Morgen

Furiose German Brass
Südwestpresse

Feuerwerk zum Auftakt

Die Eröffnung des Swiss Chamber Music Festival geriet zu einem Feuerwerk an Brillanz und Wortwitz. Da war die musikalisch kaum zu überbietende Spielkunst der German Brass mit den wohl besten Blechbläsern aus Deutschland. […] Nach John Bastons Concerto Nr. 6 und J.S. Bachs Chorälen und der Toccata und Fuge d-Moll begann eine unterhaltsame Folge von Medleys bekannter Musikstücke Around the World. Dies war ein Fest höchstklassiger Spielfreude mit einer bestechenden Moderation des Hornisten Klaus Wallendorf.

Berner Oberländer, Martin Natterer, 13.09.2021