George Perle - Wind Quintet No. 1 1959

The Dorian Wind Quintet
Elizabeth Mann, flute
Gerard Reuter, oboe
Jerry Kirkbride, clarinet
David Jolley, horn
Jane Taylor, bassoon

George Perle has arguably written more significant wind quintets than any other composer since the early 19th century.  He wrote four, in all.   The notes to the New World Records recording of his complete quintets, - 80359 which I couldn't recommend you buy more highly - say:

Less dramatic than that of Boulez, Wuorinen, or even Babbitt, Perle's music usually sounds simpler than it is. If his surfaces seem uncomplicated, one can listen through the texture to hear the background irregularities that keep the music interesting--a changing note in a held chord, a beat quietly dropped or added--much as one does in Mozart or Schubert. Repetition is common and never literal. Perle never writes down to an audience and never worries about "accessibility," but he is a firm believer that "a piece that 'makes sense' will reach one, at some intuitive level, even at first hearing." Such is certainly true of these quintets, which place Perle alongside Schoenberg, Nielsen, and Jolivet as composers who have raised the wind quintet above its utilitarian origins to make an enduring personal statement.

The CD really sounds so much better than the mp4.  If you want to hear this music in as close to optimal conditions as possible outside of an excellent live performance, you should hear it.