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Re: Kalevi Aho Tuba Concerto.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:39 am
by gionvil
Hi,
you can order it from Finland, this is the address of the publisher:
Fennica Gehrman Oy Ab
PO Box 158
FIN-00121 Helsinki
Finland
(Visiting address: Lönnrotinkatu 20 B)
Fax + 358-103871221 (in Finland: 010 3871221)
E-mail: info@fennicagehrman.fi" target="_blank" target="_blank
I ordered something time ago and they were rather quick in sending if the parts are available.

Gionata

Re: Kalevi Aho Tuba Concerto.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 7:54 am
by BVD Press
For anyone who might not know, the CD recording by Oystein Baadsvik won the "Roger Bobo award for excellence in recording" at ITEC 2008:


http://www.baadsvik.com/?articleID=213" target="_blank

Re: Kalevi Aho Tuba Concerto.

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:33 am
by Nick Pierce
Bob1062 wrote:Didn't the same author write a contrabassoon concerto? Has anyone played this on tuba (I seem to recall there was a CD with both of them, but only played on the original instrument each)?
Yep, Baadsvik doing the tuba, and someone else doing the other one. It's on Itunes if you're interested.

Re: Kalevi Aho Tuba Concerto.

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:47 am
by djwesp
tubashaman wrote:If anyone would do the contrabasson concerto on tuba.....itd have to be transposed an octave.....fun!

But the contrabassoons dont have much literature.......lets let them have this one :)

You would? Why? Most of, if not all, of this sits in the gravy range on a CC tuba.

Re: Kalevi Aho Tuba Concerto.

Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:39 am
by pulseczar
It won't sound as cool though.

Pulse "who recently had the opportunity to overhaul a Mollenhauer contrabassoon and thinks it's the most kickass sound ever." czar