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« on: 20:58:36, 26-01-2008 »
I help organise a 'Reunion Wind Orchestra' once or twice a year, which does pretty much what it says on the tin - play for a day, then head to the pub to catch up with old friends!

One of the problems is always repertoire.  Striking the balance between musical interest and rehearsal practicality, the temptation is to retreat to music that is already well known to a large number of people.

So in the past we've played keystone works by Holst, Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Hanson together with more recent works by (largely genre) composers such as Sparke, Gregson, Ellerby and Gorb.

I'd be greatful for any members' suggestions for pieces to consider in future.

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« Reply #1 on: 21:08:24, 26-01-2008 »
Have you tried any of Richard Strauss's stuff?

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/22015.asp
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« Reply #2 on: 22:09:58, 26-01-2008 »
If you can get hold of it, David Bedford's 'Sun paints rainbows on the vast waves'. Not that difficult and
to my ears exhilirating. Needs quite a few clarinets as I recall.
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« Reply #3 on: 02:51:34, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: Tony Watson on 21:08:24, 26-01-2008
Have you tried any of Richard Strauss's stuff?

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/22015.asp

Sorry no Tony - all the Strauss wind music is scored for far too small an ensemble.

I have played the Suite and Serenade in the past (on tuba), but that's a different story...

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« Reply #4 on: 03:06:40, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: marbleflugel on 22:09:58, 26-01-2008
If you can get hold of it, David Bedford's 'Sun paints rainbows on the vast waves'. Not that difficult and
to my ears exhilirating. Needs quite a few clarinets as I recall.

Hmm... It's been suggested to us before.  The clarinets are actually fine (although it does need two basses) but the problem is getting hold of enough wine bottles (some of them 1.5l size).  When I did 'Sun Paints...' at university, this task was delegated to a brass ensemble I also played in...

The RNCM recorded Bedford's wind orchestra music on the Doyen lablel.  I managed to identify a late friend of mine on tuba blind just by the stupendous pedals he added.

I'll have to investigate the other two 'biggies', 'Sea and Sky and Golden Hill' and 'Canons and Cadenzas'

(I'm working right now, in case you're wondering at the time)

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« Reply #5 on: 10:01:11, 27-01-2008 »
How big/small is your band?
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« Reply #6 on: 10:11:33, 27-01-2008 »
Hindemith!  Lots of Hindemith for bands Smiley
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« Reply #7 on: 12:38:27, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: autoharp on 10:01:11, 27-01-2008
How big/small is your band?

Somewhere between 40-50.  Any fewer you can't cover the parts, any more the doubling starts to get unwieldy.  And since we have a day to work in, it isn't really fair to include chamber music like the Strauss (or even the Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments)

Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 10:11:33, 27-01-2008
Hindemith!  Lots of Hindemith for bands Smiley

Quite a few people who are likely to be involved have recently played the Symphony in Bb and an arrangement of the March from the Symphonic Metamorphosis.  That's all the Hindemith for band I'm familiar with Reiner, do you have any particular recommendations?

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« Reply #8 on: 12:55:16, 27-01-2008 »
Sorry, I've only ever seen his band music mentioned in biographies and catalogues - I haven't heard much other than the Symphony you've already mentioned.
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« Reply #9 on: 13:44:10, 27-01-2008 »
There's the Milhaud Suite Française, NB. (There's also an identically titled suite by Poulenc, which you won't be able to do unless you can lay your hands on a harpsichord and player, unfortunately.)
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« Reply #10 on: 14:01:10, 27-01-2008 »
No idea really whether it would be an appropriate level of difficulty, but there is quite a bit (3 or 4 pieces at least) of excellent wind-band music by Anthony Gilbert, most of it written for the RNCM Wind Band and recorded by them on 2 NMC discs (Dream Carousels and On Beholding a Rainbow (the piece on the latter disc is called Unrise)).

His publishers are Univ of York Music Press.
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« Reply #11 on: 18:34:15, 27-01-2008 »
My band at Uni did Sea and Sky and Golden Hill. It's quite a pretty piece, and not too hard as I recall. No wine bottles, but quite a few wine glasses. (Maybe they were left over from "preparing" Sun paints rainbows?).

Have you tried Guy Woolfenden? We only did one piece of his, but it was pretty good, and he's another 'genre' composer.

There's also a nifty arrangement of Bernstein's symphonic dances from West Side Story that I remember being good fun (us oboists don't get to see a lot of fun in a wind band...).
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« Reply #12 on: 18:56:19, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: ...trj... on 18:34:15, 27-01-2008
(us oboists don't get to see a lot of fun in a wind band...).

True, particularly when the oboe part is basically doubling the flute part.
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« Reply #13 on: 22:41:31, 27-01-2008 »
Quote from: Ron Dough on 13:44:10, 27-01-2008
There's the Milhaud Suite Française, NB. (There's also an identically titled suite by Poulenc, which you won't be able to do unless you can lay your hands on a harpsichord and player, unfortunately.)

Thanks for the reminder Ron - I do like the mournfull glissandi in the slow movement.

Quote from: time_is_now on 14:01:10, 27-01-2008
No idea really whether it would be an appropriate level of difficulty, but there is quite a bit (3 or 4 pieces at least) of excellent wind-band music by Anthony Gilbert, most of it written for the RNCM Wind Band and recorded by them on 2 NMC discs (Dream Carousels and On Beholding a Rainbow (the piece on the latter disc is called Unrise)).

His publishers are Univ of York Music Press.

Thanks Tinners, not one I know - I'll look out for Gilbert (all my RNCM recordings are on Chandos)

Quote from: ...trj... on 18:34:15, 27-01-2008
Have you tried Guy Woolfenden? We only did one piece of his, but it was pretty good, and he's another 'genre' composer.

Yup - we've done Gallimaufrey, and have Illyrian dances on hand.

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Quote from: ...trj... on 18:34:15, 27-01-2008
(us oboists don't get to see a lot of fun in a wind band...).

True, particularly when the oboe part is basically doubling the flute part.

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I think that the wind orchestra repertoire may offer slightly more satisfaction!

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« Reply #14 on: 15:07:46, 16-02-2008 »
Peter Graham's Window's of the World and Gaelforce.
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