THE BASS TROMBONIST’S LISTENING GUIDE:  EXCERPTS FROM THE OPERA AND THE ORCHESTRA

I’m very excited to announce the release and availability of a new collaborative CD with Denson Paul Pollard of the Metropolitan Opera!  Our new album is a 2 CD set of standard orchestral and opera excerpts with commentary, in a similar style to prior albums of orchestral excerpts.  It’s geared both towards both professional students and student professionals, and will hopefully shed a bit of light on how to approach some of the more standards excerpts from the repertory.  Excerpts included are:

Bach:  Bourree I from Cello Suite No. 3, Sarabande from Cello Suite No. 5

Bartok:  Miraculous Mandarin Suite

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 5

Berg:  Wozzeck

Berlioz:  Hungarian March

Brahms:  Symphony No. 1

Haydn:  The Creation

Kodaly:  Hary Janos Suite

Mascagni:  Cavaliera Rusticana

Mozart:  Die Zauberflote

Respighi:  Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome

Rossini:  La Gazza Ladra Ov., William Tell Ov.

Schumann:  Symphony No. 3 (Rhenish)

Shostakovich:  Symphony No. 5

Strauss:  Also Sprach Zarathustra, Ein Heldenleben, Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Till Eulenspiegel

Verdi:  Falstaff, Nabucco, Othello

Wagner:  Lohengrin, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung, Tannhauser

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

NEW EXCERPT CD NOW AVAILABLE