Tuba Duet with Piano

with Piano

Everyone may have heard of The Four Seasons, but Vivaldi has more than two hundred other concerti to his name for the violin alone, alongside countless others for cello, flute, oboe, bassoon and recorder. He also wrote many for solo chamber ensemble, and this example is one of 28 concerti he wrote for two violins, strings and harpsichord. Combining high virtuosity and showmanship in the outer movements with expressive tenderness and delicacy in the middle, this transcription allows two tuba players to work together to show off the real technical and musical potential of their instrument, authoritatively removing any residual preconceptions of what the tuba is capable of.

– Jack Adler-McKean, arranger

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Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, or The Shepherd on the Rock, is a lied originally for soprano, clarinet and piano by Franz Schubert. It was written for Pauline Anna Milder-Hauptmann, a friend of the composer’s, who requested a piece from Schubert that would allow her to show off her versatility as a performer. The lyrics are taken from two poets, Wilhelm Muller and August Varnhagen von Ense. This version arranges both the soprano and the clarinet parts for tubas.

This piece can be heard on Velvet Brown’s disc Simply Velvet.

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Delibes wrote many popular ballets, operas, and operettas and was a great influence on later composers. The Flower Duet, from Lakme, is heard in everything from commercials to TV shows.

2 Tubas and Piano

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universal edition includes each part in:

C, B-flat, E-flat and F

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Roadrunner portrays the never-ending chase between the roadrunner bird and the wily coyote. Musically this is achieved using canon and stretto, both funky and Classical. Does the coyote ever catch up? Maybe…

Roadrunner was commissioned by Portuguese master musician Sérgio Carolino. The world premiere was given by him and Shimpei Tsugita with Rena Hashimoto, piano, at the Yamaha Studio in Ginza, Japan in 2017. Sérgio also presented the European premiere with Daniel Perantoni on tubas and Telmo Marques, piano, at the Gravissimo Festival in Alcobaça, Portugal in 2018.

This piece is available in versions for trumpets, horns, euphoniums or tuba. It can also be performed with any combination of the above instruments: you only need a Roadrunner, a Coyote, and a piano.