Dave Payn
Active Member
I'll refrain from asking 'What's the best' as there are just soooo many recordings out there, we can't have listened to them all (well, you never know...)
Anyway, I thought I'd kick off a 'Favourite brass recording' thread but one that doesn't exclude the numerous percussionists who frequent this site!
[a] Favourite brass band recording
Favourite brass ensemble recording
[c] Favouriite percussion contribution to a brass recording
So for me: (Purely a humble opinion!)
[a] Pictures at an Exhibition - Britannia BS Snell
Fabulous playing throughout, fabulous music and I honestly think BBS's performance of Pictures marginally outshines PJBE's! A band at the very top of its form
{b} Toccata - English Brass Ensemble
It was a close call between this, the 20th Century Album (PJBE) and RAM Brass - A World Tour, but even though there's some recording 'trickery' going on (in multi tracking a 6 piece ensemble to play Widor's Symphony No. 5) it makes the end result all the more remarkable. The final Toccata, though it's not the greatest piece of music ever written, the playing still makes the hairs stand up on the end of my neck some 10 years after I bought the recording!
[c] London Symphony Brass - American Brass.
An all American programme as the album title suggests, with Copland, Bernstein (including a knockout recording of Prelude Fugue and Riffs) etc. and whilst the brass play magnificently, it wouldn't have the same impact without the superb percussion section (particularly in the West Side Story and Prelude, Fugue and Riffs)
So there's my lot. What about others?
Regards
Anyway, I thought I'd kick off a 'Favourite brass recording' thread but one that doesn't exclude the numerous percussionists who frequent this site!
[a] Favourite brass band recording
Favourite brass ensemble recording
[c] Favouriite percussion contribution to a brass recording
So for me: (Purely a humble opinion!)
[a] Pictures at an Exhibition - Britannia BS Snell
Fabulous playing throughout, fabulous music and I honestly think BBS's performance of Pictures marginally outshines PJBE's! A band at the very top of its form
{b} Toccata - English Brass Ensemble
It was a close call between this, the 20th Century Album (PJBE) and RAM Brass - A World Tour, but even though there's some recording 'trickery' going on (in multi tracking a 6 piece ensemble to play Widor's Symphony No. 5) it makes the end result all the more remarkable. The final Toccata, though it's not the greatest piece of music ever written, the playing still makes the hairs stand up on the end of my neck some 10 years after I bought the recording!
[c] London Symphony Brass - American Brass.
An all American programme as the album title suggests, with Copland, Bernstein (including a knockout recording of Prelude Fugue and Riffs) etc. and whilst the brass play magnificently, it wouldn't have the same impact without the superb percussion section (particularly in the West Side Story and Prelude, Fugue and Riffs)
So there's my lot. What about others?
Regards