Great low brass music

[tubapix]

Copied this from a post on Head-fi (?) by Thelonious Monk. Thought it was appropriate for this forum -

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"Me and my private (tuba) teacher are compiling a list of composers that produced some great low brass music in their lifetimes. so far I have just got the basics:

Barber - All Symphonies, School For Scandal, Essays
Bartok - Concerto For Orchestra, The Miraculous Mandarin
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 Mexico
Debussy - Nocturnes, La Mer
Dvorak - Symphonies #7, #8 and #9
Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue, American In Paris
Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphoses, Mathis Der Mahler
Holst - The Planets
Kodaly - Hary Janos Suite, Peacock 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
Iannis Xenakis - N'Shima
Kurt Atterberg -- any of the symphonies.
Khachaturian -- Gayane, Spartacus
Korngold -- film scores, symphony
Bloch -- symphony in C# minor
R. Vaughn Williams Tuba concerto
Schumann's Konzertstick for Four Horns
Ravel's Bolero

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."

[Heavy_Metal]

That's quite an extensive list already, and it should grow pretty quickly.

The only things I'd add right now are Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture", in which it's pretty easy for the low brass to inflict brain damage during the finale- and Strauss' "Feierlicher Einzug", which is IMHO one of the best brass pieces ever written.

[imperialbari]

Alone from the opening of the overture I would add Verdi’s Nabucco to this list.

Klaus