Favorite Orchestral Music Without Tuba

[porkchopsisgood]

Beethoven's Late String Quartets, Missa Solemnis, Symphony #3, #9.....just Beethoven in general.....

Incredible.

[Tom Mason]

Peer Gynt, Ase's Death. (2nd movement?)

Absolutely moving and dark.

Tom Mason

[Mitch]

R. Strauss Metamorphosen
A. Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht

[corbasse]

I wouldn't know where to start. I like music, and don't give a %^* which instruments play it, as long as it's good music with good performers.

To name a few works off the beaten track: I really like
Zelenka: Cappriccios (French horns in trumpet register Largely novelty value)
Rameau: Dardanus, Les Indes Gallantes
J.F. Rebel: Les Elements (Does his surname honour )

[Mark E. Chachich]

Raposida Romana nr. 2 (op. 11) Enescu
Balada (op. 29) Porumbescu
Mark

[Chuck Jackson]

Beethoven String Quartets, Beethoven Symphonies, Bach b minor Mass, Anything by the Doors, REM, Rage Against the Machine, The Guess Who, Metallica, Frank Sinatra, Brian Eno, Bill Laswell, old Genesis before Phil Collins, anything by Peter Gabriel, Tom Waits, Shiley Horn, Miles, Coltrane, Art Tatum, Chet Baker, Alison Krause, Mark O'Connor, Dolly Parton, BR-549, Asleep at the Wheel, Suzy Bogguss, Leonard Cohen, String Cheese Incident, Richard Cheese(a West Coast Phenomenom)Mozart, any thing by Vivaldi,Telemann, any setting of "La Folia" The Bach Chaconne for Solo Violin, Brahms 1 and 2 and the 2nd Piano Concerto, any Haydn symphony, Bruckner 3, Schuberts Symphonies, chamber music, masses, actually, anything Schubert wrote Schumann's piano music, bach's Goldberg Variations as played by Glenn Gould, Thomas Quasthoff's new recording of Bach Cantats, the Ysaye Solo Violin Sonata's, hell, the list goes ever onward.....

Chuck"who is amazed at how much music I prefer without the tuba in it, but recently have doing an overview of the entire oevoure of Dvorak and am blown away by the stuff no one ever hears like the symphonicv poems and early symphonies and Iparticulary like the Liszt Tone Poems" Jackson

[corbasse]

Beethoven String Quartets, Beethoven Symphonies, Bach b minor Mass, Anything by the Doors, REM, Rage Against the Machine, The Guess Who, .......
And A LOT more.......

Hey! That's MY list!

Add anything from the Ars Subtilior, Ockeghem, Desprez etc., Monteverdi & Co. and we're there...

[Rick Denney]

How about this: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis by Ralph Vaughan Williams. I think it's one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century, and it doesn't have any brass at all.

Of course, there was the video of it being done by the Canadian Brass and the quintets of the New York Phil and the Boston Symphony.

Rick "who may like playing a piece because of the tuba part, but who rarely likes listening to a piece just because of the tuba part" Denney

[Tabor]

Dominico Scarlatti's early harpsichord sonate

J.S. Bach..nearly anything he ever wrote

Beethoven, Brahms, Grieg, Schumann and Schubert lieder (including Clara Schumann)

Fauré chanson

Mozart and Rossini operas..does Verdi count?

[jmh3412]

Pergolesi Stabat Mater
Lotti Crucifixus
Finzi ClarinetConcerto
Finzi Five Bagatelles (Clarinet)
Delius Summer Night on the Water
Howells Collegium Regale Mass Setting

[tubapress]

I was just listening to Enesco's Romanian Rhapsodies and it got me to thinking about what orchestral music that I really liked that had no tuba part (or in the case of Rhapsody No. 1 not much of a tuba part).

What are your favorite orchestral works with no tuba part?

How about:

Schumann Symphony No. 2
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"
Brahms Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3
Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Debussy/Busser - Petite Suite
J.S. Bach - anything

[Paul S]

When its done with enjoyment & passion by the performers,
It is all Good...
but my favourites would be;
Any Haydn Symphony
Any Schubert Symphony
Anything by J.S. Bach

[Mark]

Rick "who may like playing a piece because of the tuba part, but who rarely likes listening to a piece just because of the tuba part" Denney

I feel this way too.

Some of the best times I have had at rehearsals were when the rest of the orchestra was playing and I was tacet.

We played Tschaikovsky's 4th Symphony near the end of last season, and although the tuba part is a lot of fun, the thing I enjoyed the most was listening to the second movement. There is something special about being right next to the basses and cellos when they pick up what I think is one of the most beautiful melodies ever wrtitten.

[elimia]

Sibelius - Finlandia (I don't think there's a tuba part in it )

[Steve Marcus]

Sibelius - Finlandia (I don't think there's a tuba part in it )

Yup, there is. But you can still enjoy what everyone else is playing.

[Mark]

Sibelius - Finlandia (I don't think there's a tuba part in it )

Uhh... Yes, there is a tuba part and at times that part is soloistic.

[Chuck(G)]

When its done with enjoyment & passion by the performers,
It is all Good...
but my favourites would be;
Any Haydn Symphony
Any Schubert Symphony...

Whoops! You mean that the Schubert "Unfinished" doesn't have a tuba part? No wonder I was getting all those strange looks at rehearsal last night!

Actually, the local community orchestra is a bit thin on basses, so I often pitch in and help with tuba. Last night was the Unfinished and the Haydn Trumpet Concerto. It doesn't work too badly if you keep the volume down and think of yourself as reinforcement only. It's really a blast and you get a new perspective on the pieces...

[elimia]

Uh, I might need to fine tooth my listening of Finlandia! I usually just take the whole thing in for its beauty. I'll listen more for the tuba.

[Billy M.]

Any and all Beethoven, all Bach, Vivaldi. Barber's Adagio for Strings is magnificent. I'm a BIG fan of Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on Theme of Thomas Tallis and Greensleeves.