Rutter: Most Glorious Lord of Life

[Steve Marcus]

Please describe the tuba part of this piece.

Bass tuba or contrabass?

Thanks.

[AndyCat]

+1 for the part!

Performed the Gloria twice and "Rejoice and be Merry" this Christmas, and both just right for my BBb.

[Steve Marcus]

Agreed, Bloke and Andy. I've performed Rutter's Gloria at least twice, and it definitely works well for contrabass.

But Rutter has written much more lightly textured music as well. Example: What Sweeter Music attracted the Volvo people not for its text. The "light, soft, warm, fuzzy" sound is what they heard and paid Mr. Rutter quite royally for the rights to use in their TV commercial.

Admittedly, there is no brass in What Sweeter Music. But Mr. Rutter has enough versatility in tone coloring that it may not be safe to assume that everything that he writes with brass is big and bombastic.

It's a number of weeks before I have to perform Most Glorious Lord of Life, so I'm satisfying curiosity more than anything else because I haven't heard this work nor seen the music.

[imperialbari]

I would like to study the part also. Max resolution smartphone shots still would be worth much more than no scans.

Klaus

[oldbandnerd]

But Rutter has written much more lightly textured music as well

Here's a good example of such a light textured piece. Rutter wrote "Suite Antique for Flute and Harpsicord and Strings" and it has been transcribed for euphonioum. Here is our old friend Charley Brighton playing 3 of the 5 movements.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8iUFB8QnHU" target="_blank

[tbn.al]

Gosh! That is certainly beautiful music played beautifully........and I'm usually not much of a Rutter fan.

[MSchott]

But Rutter has written much more lightly textured music as well

Here's a good example of such a light textured piece. Rutter wrote "Suite Antique for Flute and Harpsicord and Strings" and it has been transcribed for euphonioum. Here is our old friend Charley Brighton playing 3 of the 5 movements.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8iUFB8QnHU" target="_blank" target="_blank

I know this is getting OT but does anyone know where to purchase this arrangement?

[Highams]

Thanks for your kind words folks, I was playing/transposing from the original flute/piano copy on those recordings, published in the UK by the Oxford University Press.

The wind band arrangment was done for me by John Holland here in the UK and is strictly a private agreement with John & the OUP. Not all the movs remain in their original keys for obvious reasons.

CB

[MSchott]

Thanks for your kind words folks, I was playing/transposing from the original flute/piano copy on those recordings, published in the UK by the Oxford University Press.

The wind band arrangment was done for me by John Holland here in the UK and is strictly a private agreement with John & the OUP. Not all the movs remain in their original keys for obvious reasons.

CB

Thank you Charlie. Lovely piece and beautiful performance.