What piece of music hits your sweet spot?

pulseczar · Post by **pulseczar** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:55 pm

Tichelli's Vesuvius

During the brass chorale where the tuba holds down the A while the rest of the brass section toys with chords and then we all resolve to an F. It's such a sweet feeling when we all nail the chord.

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:54 pm

Pink Floyd "The Wall"
Brian Eno "Another Green Earth"
Mendelssohn "Hebrides Overture"
Willie Nelson "September Song" via Kurt Weill on the Stardust Album

Arkietuba · Post by **Arkietuba** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:57 pm

Saint-Saens's "Bacchanale"
Wagner's "Prelude to the 3rd Act of Lohengrin"
Gandolfi's "Vientos Y Tangos"
Maslanka's "In a Child's Garden of Dreams"
Mozart's "O Isis und Osiris"
Schubert's "Die Erlkonig"
and of course
Dvorak's "Symphony No. 9"

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 3:56 pm

timayer wrote:Vaughan Williams Fantasia on the Theme by Thomas Tallis

You speak for me. It's one of very few pieces I can listen two twice straight through in turn without getting bored the second time around.

Rick "thinking tuba players should be grateful they get to listen to this one" Denney

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 4:12 pm

Vaughan Williams- 'Wasps' Overture
VW- Tallis Variations (the coolest piece for string orchestra EVER)
any Vincent Persichetti slow movement (esp. Symphony #6)
a really great performance of "O Holy Night" of "Gesu Bambino" (I once heard a performance of Fredereke Von Stade doing "Bambino" whilst in the car. I just about had to pull over)
Crosby, Stills & Nash- "Wasted on the Way"

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:13 pm

Adams, Harmonium
Scriabin, Poem of Fire (Prometheus)

finnbogi · Post by **finnbogi** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:58 pm

Vaughan Williams: The lark ascending
Wagner: Starke Scheite schichtet mir dort (BrÃ¼nnhilde's last scene from GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung)
Grieg: VÃ¥ren
Bach: Ruht wohl (from Johannespassion)
Rachmaninoff: Bogoroditse Devo (from Vespers)
Schubert: Litanei auf der Fest Allerseelen

... to name but a few.

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:17 pm

Alice Parker: Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal
Orlando Gibbons: O' Clap Your Hands
Petula Clark singing Downtown

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:18 pm

Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings". Brings tears to my eyes every time.

The piece inspired me to write this...
http://dylanking.net/Adagio_for_Strings.mp3

Not to say it in any way measures up to Barber, but I don't think I would have written my short "Adagio for Stings" without ever hearing his.

Cameron Gates · Post by **Cameron Gates** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:20 pm

SplatterTone wrote:Petula Clark singing Downtown

I thought I was the only one who liked that tune.

A couple of others:

Maynard's MacArthur Park

Rush's Tom Sawyer

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:29 pm

the elephant wrote:Tchaik 4, slow movement

Heavenly . . .

Yes! There's no tuba in this movement; but sitting in the orchestra when the low strings start playing in the second movement is heavenly.

UTTuba_09 · Post by **UTTuba_09** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:16 am

Dvorak's 9th
Second Mvmts of the Wilhelm Concertino and VW Concerto

GC · Post by GC » Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:29 am

knuxie wrote:I'll second Adagio for Strings...did Barber write anything else?

Barber wrote a LOT else. It's hard to beat the Overture to The School For Scandal, Essay for Orchestra #1 and #2, Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, and the Piano Concerto. Also, Adagio for Strings was originally just a movement from an excellent string quartet.

Steve Marcus · Post by **Steve Marcus** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 1:11 am

http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/sep2002 ... 06606.html

MileMarkerZero · Post by **MileMarkerZero** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 4:03 am

I'm going to commit an act of tuba heresy here.

To me, the most incredibly beautiful piece of music is Barber's Adagio. I can listen to it at any time and it will always lift me up.

*EDIT* Obviously, I posted without reading the other Barber nominations...

Tubaguyry · Post by **Tubaguyry** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 6:11 am

2nd movement of the Vaughan Williams tuba concerto. If any person who claims to be alive can listen to that without having tears come to their eyes, they need to check their pulse.

1st movement of Poulenc's flute sonata.

The "Gandalf" movement of "The Lord of the Rings" by de Meij

"Deeper Than Crying" by Alison Krauss

"Nobles of the Mystic Shrine" and "Sound Off" by Sousa

1st movement of "Symphony in Bb" by Hindemith

"Fantasia in D," K. 397 by Mozart

"Requiem," KV 626 by Mozart

Dvorak's Slavonic Dance #8, op. 46

2nd movement from Holst's "Second Suite in F"

"Lincolnshire Posy" by Grainger

"The Impossible Dream" by Mitchell Leigh from "Man of La Mancha"

1st movement of the Ewald brass quintet #1

2nd movement from the Koetsier brass quintet

"Adagio und Allegro," Op.70 by Schumann

Ok...this list could go ono for a while, so I'll just cut it off there for now.

UTTuba_09 · Post by **UTTuba_09** » Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:30 pm

I'll add Strauss' Four Last Songs as well, no great tuba part, but absolutely beautiful music

Dean E · Post by **Dean E** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:19 pm

Hymn of Victory-Victory at Sea, Richard Rogers

Film:
Dances with Wolves, John Barry
Chariots of File, Vangelis

Polovotsian Dances, Prince Igor-Borodin

Bolero-Ravel
Pachelbel's Greatest Hit: Canon in D

Roger Lewis · Post by **Roger Lewis** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:08 pm

Mitropoulis recording with the New York Phil - Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht
Ralph Vaughn Williams - Variations on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
The Chorale from the 4th movement of Mahler II
The second movement of Mahler V
Barber Aagio for Strings (yet another vote)
Anything played by the late Jaquelin DuPres (sp?)-even scales!
Our quintet's version of Savlation is Created
Anything by a Russian Men's Chorus
Brahm's First and Second Symphnony
Smetana - Die Moldau the soft trombone and tuba choral towards the end
Frst movement of John Adams Harmonielehre - the cadence right before the tubas and bass trombone go nuts.
More later
Roger

GC · Post by GC » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:25 am

march addendum to my previous contemptible suggestions:

Hands Across the Sea and Fairest of the Fair, by Sousa. His Honor and Rolling Thunder, by Fillmore. Coat of Arms, by Kinney. "Marche" from Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Von Weber, by Hindemith

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