Composed in 2001 for the Fine Arts Brass Ensemble, Colin Matthews’s A Quick Start is a scintillating 3-minute fanfare for brass quintet. The work also exists in a version for orchestral brass and percussion.

‘A startling fanfare… a hailstorm of splattered brass notes – out of which, incongruously but majestically, a pastiche 17th-century chorale emerged.’
The Times (Richard Morrison), 1 February 2008