Vaughan Williams on YouTube

[AsiagoCheezBagel]

Hey everyone,

Decided to post a recording from last year on YouTube to add to the stockpile of RVW recordings on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzyRYLh1So4

Read about it on: http://tubarachel.blogspot.com

Thanks!

[ppalan]

Rachel,
What a beautiful, clear tone...a very musical performance. Thanks for posting.

Pete

[TubaNerd88]

Rachel,

You did a very nice job on the Vaughan Williams! I played this piece earlier this year for my senior recital, and it's definitely not an easy piece to play. I like what you said in your blog about how no one is perfect when it comes to performing a piece, and you're absolutely right. I thoroughly enjoyed your rendition of it though. Thanks!

- Matthew Gray

[Tom Coffey]

Super playing! Anyone listening to that would be struck by how musical it is, and there is no hint of how difficult a lot of that stuff can be to play. Definitely one of the most lyrical versions I have heard, and very authentically English, too.
I especially liked how you got the low Gbs to pop coming off of the Fs.

[bort]

In all honesty, I've never particularly liked this piece.

That was nice playing though!

[bentuba7]

If only we could "like" posts on TubeNet.

Something to think about, Mr. Chisham??

[normrowe]

That was an excellent performance, Rachel!!! And it was just yesterday or the day before that I came across Beth McDonald's video of just the first movement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yfu1EKnTmo" target="_blank). Hats off to such fine female tubists! I never encountered one during my school years, either high school or college. I think it was "forbidden territory" back then. I've only seen one live performance of the piece and that was when my teacher at the time did it with his orchestra. Thanks for posting it!

[AsiagoCheezBagel]

Thanks! I really like Beth's recordings too.

YouTube is funny in a way... do you notice, if you click on my other videos (where you can actually see me), all of the top "related videos" are of female tubists? But I notice that on my RVW, where there is no photo of me (just a photo of the composer as the background), the results are more of a mix of male and female. Interesting...

[normrowe]

I have no idea how their system for choosing "related videos" works. A lot of the time the first few are definitely related in some obvious way (the same performer, the same piece), but sometimes the ones down a bit have some mystical distant relationship while there are unlisted videos that are definitely more closely related. But I've come across some unexpected delights while looking at the list of "related" postings.