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Notes and Editorial Reviews
The Canadian Brass is an exemplary brass quintet (two trumpets, French horn, trombone, euphonium/tuba) formed in 1970 when there was no other touring, self-contained brass quintet. Informed with a sense of humor and eclecticism along with considerable expertise, the Canadian Brass became a premier performing ensemble, with many works commission for them.
This HITS collection presents them performing several classical and pop evergreens, arranged and performed with such zest that it often sounds as if these pieces were written for brass. Mozart's 'Marriage of Figaro' Overture is given a sumptuous, driving baroque treatment, and their stark, yearning interpretation of Paul Simon's "Scarborough Fair" delicately accents its Renaissance
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origins while giving it a "MacArthur Park" deportment.
The Brass' rich, sonorous reading of Gabrielli's geometric, spatial "Canzoni" sounds positively, regally orchestral. As a bonus, on two tracks the Canadian Brass is joined by another quintet, the Berlin Philharmonic Brass. Read less
Works on This Recording
1.
Le nozze di Figaro, K 492: Overture by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba),
Eugene Watts (Euphonium),
David Ohanian (French Horn),
Ronald Romm (Trumpet),
Frederic Mills (Trumpet)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period: Classical
Written: 1786; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 06/1994
Venue: National Arts Center, Ottawa, Canada
Length: 4 Minutes 9 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Geoffrey Bergler
2.
Scarborough Fair/Canticle by Paul Simon
Performer:
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba),
David Ohanian (French Horn),
Frederic Mills (Trumpet),
Ronald Romm (Trumpet),
Eugene Watts (Euphonium)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1966
Date of Recording: 09/1982
Venue: RCA Studios, New York City
Length: 2 Minutes 44 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Don Gillis
3.
Canon and Gigue for 3 Violins and Basso Continuo in D major: Canon by Johann Pachelbel
Performer:
Paul Hümpel (Tuba),
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba),
Karl-Heinz Duse-Utesch (Trombone),
David Ohanian (French Horn),
Ronald Romm (Trumpet),
Frederic Mills (Trumpet),
Konradin Groth (Trumpet),
Martin Kretzer (Trumpet),
Eugene Watts (Euphonium)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass,
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Brass
Period: Baroque
Written: Germany
Date of Recording: 1983
Venue: Jesu Christus Kirche, Dahlem, Germany
Length: 5 Minutes 35 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Arthur Frackenpohl
4.
Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Ronald Romm (Trumpet),
Frederic Mills (Trumpet),
Eugene Watts (Euphonium),
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba),
David Ohanian (French Horn)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass,
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Brass
Period: Baroque
Written: 1723; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 1983
Venue: Jesu Christus Kirche, Dahlem, Germany
Length: 3 Minutes 50 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Frederic Mills
5.
Concerto for Violin in F minor, Op. 8 no 4/RV 297 "L'inverno" by Antonio Vivaldi
Performer:
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba),
Eugene Watts (Euphonium),
David Ohanian (French Horn),
Frederic Mills (Trumpet),
Ronald Romm (Trumpet)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period: Baroque
Written: 1725; Venice, Italy
Date of Recording: 11/1984
Venue: Church of St. Mary, Magdelena, Toronto
Length: 9 Minutes 44 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Arthur Frackenpohl
6.
Amazing Grace by Traditional
Performer:
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba),
George Segal (Banjo),
David Ohanian (French Horn),
Eugene Watts (Trombone),
Ronald Romm (Trumpet),
Frederic Mills (Trumpet),
Frederic Mills (Piccolo Trumpet),
George Segal (Voice)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Date of Recording: 11/1986
Venue: Church of St. Mary, Magdelena, Toronto
Length: 4 Minutes 23 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Luther Henderson
7.
The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus 9, a 4, alla duodecima by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:
Eugene Watts (Euphonium),
David Ohanian (French Horn),
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba),
Frederic Mills (Trumpet),
Ronald Romm (Trumpet)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1745-1750; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 02/1987
Venue: Church of St. Mary, Magdelena, Toronto
Length: 3 Minutes 13 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Arthur Frackenpohl
8.
Sonata for Piano no 11 in A major, K 331 (300i): 3rd movement, Rondo alla turca by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba),
Eugene Watts (Euphonium),
Frederic Mills (Trumpet),
David Ohanian (French Horn),
Ronald Romm (Trumpet)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period: Classical
Written: 1781-1783; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 11/1986
Venue: Church of St. Mary, Magdelena, Toronto
Length: 2 Minutes 22 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Arthur Frackenpohl
9.
Canzona per sonar no 2 by Giovanni Gabrieli
Performer:
Frederic Mills (Trumpet),
David Ohanian (French Horn),
Eugene Watts (Euphonium),
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba),
Ronald Romm (Trumpet)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period: Renaissance
Written: Italy
Date of Recording: 1988
Venue: RCA Studios, New York City
Length: 2 Minutes 59 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Arthur Frackenpohl
10.
Canzona per sonar no 3 by Giovanni Gabrieli
Performer:
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba),
Frederic Mills (Trumpet),
Eugene Watts (Euphonium),
Ronald Romm (Trumpet),
David Ohanian (French Horn)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period: Renaissance
Written: Italy
Date of Recording: 1988
Venue: RCA Studios, New York City
Length: 2 Minutes 15 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Arthur Frackenpohl
11.
The March before the Battle, or The Earl of Oxford's March, MB 93 by William Byrd
Performer:
Charles Daellenbach (Tuba),
Ronald Romm (Trumpet),
Frederic Mills (Trumpet),
Eugene Watts (Euphonium),
David Ohanian (French Horn)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Canadian Brass
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Date of Recording: 07/1989
Venue: RCA Studio A, New York City
Length: 3 Minutes 10 Secs.
Notes: Arranged: Arthur Frackenpohl
Sound Samples
Overture to the Marriage of Figaro (Edited version)
Jesus, bleibet meine Freude
Contrapuntus 9 - Vivace from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 (Excerpt)
Rondo Alla Turca From Piano Sonata In A Major, K. 331
The Earle of Oxford's Marche
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