Category: SOLOS - Euphonium Composer: J.N. Hummel Arranger: Philip Wilby
Euphonium & Piano
Duration 6.30
"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the ‘fantasia’ or ‘pot-pourri’ was a popular genre built on a selection of hit tunes of the day. Hummel wrote three such works, for guitar, cello, and viola; this arrangement is based on a shortened version of the work for viola and orchestra. The original, published as Hummel’s Opus 94, dates from about 1820 and includes themes from Mozart’s Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and Rossini’s Tancredi."
Category: SOLOS - Euphonium Composer: Charles Villers Stanford Arrangers: Robert Childs, Philip Wilby
Euphonium & Piano - Virtuoso Collection
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Charles Villiers Stanford (1852—1 924) was an Irish composer, conductor, organist, and teacher. Both his parents were involved in the legal profession but loved music. They sent their son to public school where he studied classics.
In 1870 he went to Queens’ College, Cambridge, and by the time he graduated four years later, he was destined for a career in music. During his long life many honours were bestowed on him including honorary doctorates from Oxford and Cambridge Universities; he was knighted in 1901. A contemporary of Elgar and Parry, when he died his ashes were buried near Purcell’s grave in Westminster Abbey. Caoine (pronounced ‘keen’) is the beautiful lament which forms the expressive second movement of Stanford’s Clarinet (or Viola) Sonata, written in 1912. Its long, meandering and sometimes unpredictable phrases need detailed preparation for concert performances, and its musical rewards are unsurpassed.
One of Mozart’s best-loved and most performed pieces is the lively ‘Rondo Alla Turca’ from the Piano Sonata in A minor, K331, written in Paris in 1778. In this arrangement the Rondo is preceded by a little- known adagio, K580a, which existed previously as a fragment scored for solo clarinet and three basset horns. This completed version of the adagio is in sonata form, its main theme closely resembling Mozart’s famous motet Ave verum corpus.
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Categories: SOLOS - Euphonium, Howard Snell Music Composer: Howard Snell
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Howard Snell writes :
Written in memory of two aquaintances, Oration is also connected in my mind with the Aberfan disaster when 144 souls, 112 of them children, were engulfed when liquid coal waste slipped to drown a school. The image in my mind is of a preacher's passionate funeral valediction... a farewell... against the background of a sombre graveside gathering. Although written for euphonium it has been recorded by on trumpet Chris Jaudes. 'Oration is just lovely' wrote one reviewer.
Categories: SOLOS - Euphonium, Howard Snell Music Arranger: Howard Snell
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Howard Snell writes :
The origin of this English folk song in unknown, but Ben Jonson's lyric 'To Celia' matches it step for step in beauty of feeling. These Variations are virtuosic but try to stay within touching distance of the melody's grace and charm... qualities that the euphonium possesses fully when approached in the appropriate way.
Category: SOLOS - Euphonium Composer / arranger: Peter Graham
Fantasy on Rule Britania - this version is for Solo Euphonium only.
The Brass Band version of this work can be performed either as a Euphonium Solo or optional parts are included for a Euphonium/ Baritone duet. All parts in TC.
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