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Can't go wrong with anything by Patrick Sheridan.

If I was starting a music collection from scratch I would start with some of these titles.

Pablo Casals: Bach Cello suites
Maria Callas, the Voice of the Century
Any Glenn Gould CD
Art of Segovia: Andres Segovia

As for tuba CD's, if I HAD to buy one I would get one of these.

Tuba Tracks: Gene Porkorny
The Romantic Tuba: Floyd Cooley
Find yourself a Michael Lind CD

Here are a few suggestions off the top of my head;
Empire Brass-Class Brass on The Edge
Empire Brass-Class Brass (pre-dates on the edge)
Millar Brass Ensemble- Brass Surround
Center City Brass Quintet-Center City Brass
St. Louis Brass Quintet- Baroque Brass
Christian Lindberg-The Criminal Trombone
Wynton Marsalis-The Carnival of Venice
New York Philharmonic-Prokofiev 5, Masur on a Park Bench, Deck Era
Floyd Cooley-The Romantic Tuba
Gene Pokorny-Tuba Tracks

This makes 10 but I could go on...

You might want to get Sam Pilafian's Traveling Light and Making Whoopee. Both of these are excellent examples of dixieland tuba in a small group setting - and Sam Pilafian is Sam Pilafian.

If you like jazzy stuff, don't forget Jim Self...

Tim

Hank Feldman is a good jazz tubist too!

The Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland Gabrieli recording - a must for all brass players!

eh not really.. youre turning paper into ridiculously fantastic music. I dropped about 300 on tuba and orchestral cds a few months ago. I haven't missed the money, because i've been too busy listening to oystein.

Can strongly recomend the Pablo Casals bach cello suite recordings from the 1930's.
from a UK point of view disks worth getting...

East meets West - James Gourlay
Tuba Tribute to Fletch
Best of Fletch
Josef Horovitz - music for brass ( Polyphonic ) Euph concerto(1991 edition)stephen mead soloist , ballet for band , tuba concerto-James Gourlay soloist , Theme and co-operation. brilliant recording.

How about Alan Baer's CD:

http://www.baertracksmusic.com/

Oystein Baadsvik's new CD Danzas can be found on my site:

http://www.bvdpress.com/

$18.00 (a little cheaper than Amazon)

Oystein's music can be found on the site as well. All of the music will be available at the Army Conference in late January.

Wishing all well,

ed wrote:I'm shocked there are no recommendations for Canadian Brass. They seem to get such a bad rap because they're rich and famous. But you can't argue with the quality of the brass playing.

Buy them all, you will not be disappointed.

Personally, I enjoy their CD's, but would like to see them record a "legit" CD. Ewald, Arnold, Bozza, etc. I know it won't sell as well as what they are doing currently, but it sure would make a nice addition to Brass Quintet CD world!

On the other hand, I would recommend their recent "Magic Horn" CD. It has a wonderful new composition by Bramwell Tovey called "Santa Barbara Sonata". I hope this piece makes it into the standard Quintet lierature in the near. The only downside is the sheet music for the piece is $40.00.

While trying not to be too much of a BGSU "homer," I'm going to recommend either of Velvet Brown's CDs, and, Ben Pierce's new disc (he's advertised it on TubeNet in recent months). All three are great listening.

I have really enjoyed:

Jeff Funderburke's "Romantic Connections"

Christian Linberg's "The Winter Trombone"

Alan Baer's "Coast to Coast"

Pat Sheridan's "Storyteller"

Baadsvik's "Tuba Carnival"

Mike Forbes "Forbes Plays Koetsier"

Pokorny excerpts

tubaphore wrote:I was just going to order some CDs through Amazon. What are some other "must-have" tuba albums? . . . .

Here are a few amazing performers:

Velvet Brown
Red Lehr & Jazz Incredibles
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Melton Tuba Quartett
Vandals; Play Really Bad Original Country Tunes; "Play that Country Tuba, Cowboy"

I like the Canadian Brass and their Vivaldi: The Four Seasons remains my all time favorite CB album.

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is at the other end of the spectrum, but there is usally some kick-*** tuba work there.

I'd also recommend Howard Johnson and Gravity.

Must haves? All you can find

Jim Wagner

Yo

Free your mind with :-

Jon Sass - Sassified

Its on a different planet

Then go to :-

http://www.heavytuba.com/tuba_eng.htm

and follow the video link for two completely outrageous video's - Here comes the night and Meltdown

Andrew M

I have just got the new CD by the Melton Tuba Quartett, “What a Wonderful World“ and would highly recommend

http://www.melton-tuba-quartett.de/engl ... ew_cd.html

as far as Canadian Brass and transcriptions:except for maybe 20 tunes at max,i and 98% of audiences would think music written specifically for quintet is a big steamy pile of crap.I would like to have more real quintet lit.recorded by the big name quintets too for study purposes,but don't for a minute think that such a recording would be comercially viable,which is a concern for the C.B. Transcriptions of works by the great composers will continue to be the backbone of quintet lit. if you expect to actually have an audience at your quintet recitals(unless you have a captive college audience who must attend concerts for a grade). PS, i learned everything i needed to know about music history from the liner notes of CB tapes(yes,tapes).....

MikeMason wrote:as far as Canadian Brass and transcriptions:except for maybe 20 tunes at max,i and 98% of audiences would think music written specifically for quintet is a big steamy pile of crap.I would like to have more real quintet lit.recorded by the big name quintets too for study purposes,but don't for a minute think that such a recording would be comercially viable,which is a concern for the C.B. Transcriptions of works by the great composers will continue to be the backbone of quintet lit. if you expect to actually have an audience at your quintet recitals(unless you have a captive college audience who must attend concerts for a grade). PS, i learned everything i needed to know about music history from the liner notes of CB tapes(yes,tapes).....

A truly excellent post, Mike, especially the part about the "98% of audiences." The CB have discovered what it takes to be successful. The answer is play what the audiences want to hear, and play it well.

Brass sections of Chicago, Philly, and Cleveland - Gabrieli

Michael Lind - The Virtuoso Tuba

Philip Jones Brass Ensemble - any and all recordings by them

Velvet Brown - Velvet, and Music for Velvet

Floyd Cooley - The Romantic Tuba

LSO, Previn - Vaughan Williams Symphony no. 5 and Concerto for tuba.

Besses O' th' Barn Band - Concertos for Brass (John Fletcher on Gregson tuba concerto)

Boston Pops, Williams - all. Chester Schmitz just sounds fantastic

James Gourlay - British Tuba Concertos

I could go on and on... but I'll leave it at these.