Handel

[Rochester2013]

In this Tuba Source Book there is a listing for Handel Concerto No. 3 for Tuba and String Orchestra.

I cannot seem to find this arrangement anywhere. Anyone know if it is still around?

[Kevin Hendrick]

In this Tuba Source Book there is a listing for Handel Concerto No. 3 for Tuba and String Orchestra.

I cannot seem to find this arrangement anywhere. Anyone know if it is still around?

Hmmm ... I'm sure there's a copy Haydn here somewhere. I'll take a look and get Bach to you ...

(it would have been seriously prescient of a composer who died in 1759 to write a concerto for an instrument that didn't exist until the 1830s)

EDIT: D'oh! Don't know why I didn't think of this before -- it's probably in a ziploc bag taped to the bell of York #3 ...

[Rochester2013]

In this Tuba Source Book there is a listing for Handel Concerto No. 3 for Tuba and String Orchestra.

I cannot seem to find this arrangement anywhere. Anyone know if it is still around?

Hmmm ... I'm sure there's a copy Haydn here somewhere. I'll take a look and get Bach to you ...

(it would have been seriously prescient of a composer who died in 1759 to write a concerto for an instrument that didn't exist until the 1830s)

EDIT: D'oh! Don't know why I didn't think of this before -- it's probably in a ziploc bag taped to the bell of York #3 ...

Not quite sure I understand the York #3 reference. However I thought it would be clear which piece I am looking for. Obviously I know that the work isn't truely a "tuba concerto" that Handel wrote, however, that is the name that the Tuba Source Book indicates it as being. I understand it is a concerto written by Handel that was written for another instrument, and arranged.

[Kevin Hendrick]

I know -- just seemed odd that the transcriber would label it as such without providing the name of the original from whence it sprang. The "York #3" reference comes up from time to time here on TubeNet -- it's the mythical (?) sibling to the two CSO Yorks played for many years by Arnold Jacobs. Seemed to me that a "Handel Tuba Concerto #3" would be best played on "York #3" ...

Anyway, enough of this seriousness -- back to the frivolity:

It looks like this might be a transcription of the Oboe Concerto No. 3 (HWV 287), in which case you might be able to use the original orchestra parts with it. I did find this:

http://www.music-exchange.co.uk/HANDEL_ ... tails.html

which would give you the tuba part (and a piano part for rehearsal & study) -- might also help you track down the matching orchestra parts. (not easy to find information about Hiroyuki Yasumoto or Toa Music International Co, is it? I looked ...)

Good luck with your search! Hope this helps.