Recommended Recordings
Tuba Solo
Roger Bobo: Bobissimo (includes Kraft: Encounters II, Wilder: "Effie" Suite, and Barat: Introduction and Dance) Oystein Baadsvik: Tuba Works (includes Hindemith: Sonata, and Kraft: Encounters II) Alan Baer: Coast to Coast (includes Woodward: Tuba Concerto) Gene Pokorny: Tuba Tracks (includes Bach: Partita in A Minor, and Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song) Carol Jantsch: Cascades (includes Penderecki: Capriccio, and Shostakovich: Adagio from The Limpid Stream) David Zerkel: Solos for the Developing Tubist (includes Haddad: Suite for Tuba, Capuzzi: Andante and Rondo, Marcello: Sonata No. 1 in F major, Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song, and Lebedev: Concerto in One Movement) Floyd Cooley: Friends in Low Places (includes Vaughan Williams and Gregson Tuba Concertos, and Strauss: Horn Concerto No. 1) Tim Buzbee: Raw Emotions (includes Broughton: Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra, and Grant: Three Furies) Pat Sheridan: Blazing Brass (includes Ellerby: Tuba Concerto) David Zerkel: American Music for Tuba (includes Persichetti: Serenade No. 12, Hartley: Sonata No. 1, and Woodward: Tuba Concerto) Jozsef Bazsinka: French Connection (includes Bozza: Concertino and Barat: Introduction and Dance) |
Euphonium Solo
Adam Frey: Majestic Journey (includes Cosma: Concerto, and Sparke: Pantomime) Steven Mead: Euphonium Virtuoso (includes Horovitz: Concerto for Euphonium) Brian Bowman: American Variations (includes Clarke: Carnival of Venice and Napoli) Pat Stuckmeyer: Just for Fun (includes Ewazen: Concerto) Ben Pierce: Wheels of Life (includes Butterworth: Partita and Bitsch: Intermezzo) Adam Frey: Little Buckaroos (includes Hartmann: Rule Britannia, Reed: Seascape, and Ellerby: Concerto) Mark Fisher: Eufish (includes Jacob: Fantasia for Euphonium and Band, and Jan Bach: Concert Variations) Adam Frey: Beyond the Horizon, vol. 2 (includes Brusick: Concerto for Euphonium, and Stephenson: Sonata) Matt Tropman: Continuum (includes Gillingham: Blue Lake Fantasies) Steven Mead: Audacity (includes Graham: Concerto and Szentpali: Sketches) David Thornton: A Breathless Alleluia (includes Wilby: Euphonium Concerto) Dave Childs: Peace (includes Golland: Concerto No. 1) |
Brass Ensembles
Summit Brass Live (With Allan Dean, David Hickman, Jens Lindeman, Allen Vizzutti, Thomas Bacon, Arthur David Krehbiel, Gail Williams, Martin Hackleman, Larry Zalkind, Carl Lenthe, Milton Stevens, John Lofton, Daniel Perantoni, and Samuel Pilafian) Summit Brass: Delights (With Allan Dean, David Hickman, Raymond Mase, Anthony Plog, Thomas Bacon, Arthur David Krehbiel, Fred Rizner, Lawrence Strieby, Gail Williams, Joseph Alessi, Mark Lawrence, Ralph Sauer, Melvyn Jernigan, Daniel Perantoni, Eugene Pokorny, Gray Barrier, Ronald Kushmaul, Brent Kuszyk, Mark Latimer, Brian Mount, and Carl Topilow) Canadian Brass: Bach Goldberg Variations American Brass Quintet: Jewels Center City Brass Quintet: Romantic Music for Brass Quintet |
Orchestra
A very small sampling of works with excerpts for tuba and euphonium players
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (London Symphony Orchestra with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting) Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (The Cleveland Orchestra with Pierre Boulez conducting) Wagner: Die Meistersinger Overture (Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Sir Georg Solti conducting) Holst: The Planets (Philharmonia Orchestra with John Eliot Gardiner conducting) Respighi: Fountains of Rome (San Francisco Symphony with Edo de Waart conducting) Brahms: The Complete Symphonies (Berlin Philharmonic with Herbert von Karajan conducting) Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (Chicago Symphony with Pierre Boulez conducting) Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis (The Cleveland Orchestra with George Szell conducting) Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies (Various Orchestras with Vladimir Ashkenazy conducting) R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegel (Vienna Philharmonic with Herbert von Karajan conducting) |