Euphonium (+ bass trombone) in quintet?

[tubaguy9]

Actually, I'm playing a tuba part in a brass quintet for an honor band. The piece that I'm playing in, though, says that it's originally for Bass Trombone, but can also be played on Baritone and Tuba. The piece is called Sonata from Die Bankelsangerlieder, arranged by Robert King. It's not a difficult part by any means, but I'll see how it is when I get to the honor band...

[sc_curtis]

How about bass trombone on the tuba part? Or even any that list bass instead of tuba?

http://www.americanbrassquintet.org/

[zeign7]

I play the french horn parts in our graduate quintet at Ohio University on my euph. Pretty good times, it's a real work out for the high range obviously but the real difficulty lies in balance. Euphonium blares over the quintet in that register so it takes a lot of work to be able to play high C, D, and Eb pp. Last year I transposed some octaves here and there but as a result of last years work this year it hasn't been a problem yet. Currently working on the bozza sonatine and a few others.

[MichaelDenney]

I too played the horn part on euph. The other players in the quintet were all very strong, so balance wasn't a huge problem. One year I had to double the tuba part on euph in a brass quintet + euph. The balance was bottom heavy but the tuba player was the organizer/driving force and he loved it.

There was a quintet that recorded a CD several years ago that consisted of all conical brass, i.e. cornets, British baritone, euph and tuba.

[Chuck(G)]

Have a look at the Robert King setting of the Gabrielli "Sonata Duodecimi Toni".

There are many quintet settings that call for euphonium (and cornets and alto horn) in place of trombone, starting with the Ewald Quintet No. 1...