[Thelonious Monk]

me and my private (tuba) teacher are compiling a list of composers than produced some great low brass music in their lifetimes. so far i've just got the basics:

Barber - All Symphonies, School For Scandal, Essays
Bartok - Concerto For Orchestra, The Miraculous Mandarine
Beethoven - Symphonies 5 and 9
Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique, Hungarian March, Roman Carnival Overture
Bernstein - West Side Story, Candide, On The Town
Brahms - All Symphonies
Bruckner - All Symphonies
Copland - Fanfare For The Common Man, Symphony #3, Rodeo, El Salon Meixoc
Debussy - Nocturnes, La Mer
Dvorak - Symphonies #7, #8 and #9
Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue, American In Paris
Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphises, Mathis Der Mahler
Holst - The Planets
Kodaly - Hary Janos Suite, Pea**** Variations
Mahler - All Symphonies, excluding #4
Mendelssohn - Symphony #4
Mozart - Requiem, Magic Flute
Mussorgsky - Pictures At An Exhibition, Night On Bald Mountain
Nielson - All Symphonies
Prokofiev - All Symphonies, Romeo and Juliet, Lt. Kije
Rachmoninoff - All Symphonies
Ravel - Bolero, La Valse, Rhapsodie Espagnole, Daphnis Et Chloe
Respighi - Pines Of Rome, Church Windows, Fountains Of Rome, Roman Festival
Rimsky-Korsakov - All Symphonies, Sheherazade, Russian Easter Overture
Rossini - La Gazza Ladra, William Tell
Saint-Saens - Symphony #3
Schubert - Symphonies #5, #8 and #9
Shostakovich - All Symphonies, especially #1, #5 and #7
Sibelius - All Symphonies (especially #2), Finlandia
R. Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Don Quixote, Ein Heldenleiben, Alpine Symphony, Till Eulenspiegal, Elektra, Salome, Der Rosenkavalier
Stravinsky - Rite Of Spring, Petrouchka, The Firebird
Tchaikovsky - All Symphonies, especially #4, #5 and #6
Verdi - Othello, La Forza Del Desiton, Aida, Requiem
Wagner - Ride Of The Valkyries, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Das Rheingold, Gotterdamerung, All Overtures

no help from him yet. obviously doesn't have to be a tuba concerto or trombone solo, just anything with great, prominent low brass. admittedly some of the stuff from this list i haven't heard yet.

 

[Aman]

Iannis Xenakis - N'Shima
It's one of my favorite post-modern works... excellent trombone performance.

 

[mbhaub]

Kurt Atterberg -- any of the symphonies.
Khachaturian -- Gayane, Spartacus
Korngold -- film scores, symphony
Bloch -- symphony in C# minor

the most extravagent low brass show ever -- Franz Schmidt's Symphony no. 2. You must hear the Chicago Symphony recording. Unbelievable playing. Out Mahlers Mahler.

What's with the Kodaly? It's Pea****. It's a bird, not a dirty word....

Edit: ok, you can't type p e a c o c k...

 

[SoundGoon]

Thelonious, I didn't know you were a fellow Tubist

 

[Thelonious Monk]

thanks for the suggestions so far; i haven't heard anything you all have mentioned, so i will have some fun tracking down recordings.

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Originally Posted by SoundGoon /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thelonious, I didn't know you were a fellow Tubist

i think team tuba-fi is about 5 strong. not quite as big a group as the 23894728 violinists on this site but we're getting there! now i just need to get rid of my current junker and get a nice big boys tuba and put it in my avatar

you should see how beat up it is, really pathetic. while there's another tuba player in the topic, who are your favorite tuba players? mine has to be Floyd Cooley. suggested to me by my instructor (principal at the louisville orchestra, cool dude, likes heavy metal

), he was taught by mr cooley. i LOVE The Romantic Tuba, such a great album.

 

[duckiedeity]

Ferdinand David
Alexandre Guilmant
Launy Grondahl
Gunnar de Frumiere

To hear all of these at once, I recommend "Romantic Trombone Concertos" as performed by Christian Lindberg. Fantastic recording. It's appropriate that it's called "Romantic Trombone Concertos" because I'm really in love with this CD.

If you are a member of www.oink.me.uk it's definitely on there, so check it out!

As far as symphonic material goes, I HIGHLY recommend Robert Schumann's Symphony no. 3 ("Rhenish"). The trombones don't actually play until the 4th movement, but that 4th movement is AMAZING. It's a trombone chorale and it's just so beautiful. I'm going to listen to it right now...

 

[BAwig05]

DG's Chicago Symphony "Principal Soloists" set has, (2 discs)

-- R. Vaughn Williams Tuba concerto
-- Schumann's Konzertstick for Four Horns
-- Ravel's Bolero

and other goodies as well.

Arte Nova, (known for David Zinman's Beethoven cycle) released a disc of trobone concertos for a very low price. (As low as 5.99 in the Midwest)

Hope this helps,
Brian

 

[BAwig05]

Sorry, by other goodies in the Chicago set i meant...

--Britten's serenade for Horn, tenor and strings
-- Mozart's Oboe and Bassoon concertos, horn concerto no. 3
--Haydn's trumpet concerto

Sorry for any confusion,
Brian

 

[fortney]

Any suggestions for Euphonium music in this low brass review? Great listings so far. TNX

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