TromboneChat

Just for a little fun and out of curiosity....
What is the most beautiful thing you have ever heard??

Nick

If you are talking trombone stuff, then I would have to say hearing a performance of the de Meij TBone Concerto performed by Joe Alessi.  Gorgeous piece played by an amazing musician.

Not trombone related, then:
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto # 2, the most lavishly, romantic-sounding thing you've ever heard.

Borodin: Symphony #2 in B minor, III.

BLue Bells of Scotland by Christian Limbierg and Kai Winding's Come Rain or COme SHine  

Roy Williams trombone solo on "I Want A Little Girl" from the CD 'Alex Welsh, Classic Concert' which was a live recording made at the Hygiene-Museum, Dresden on 14th October, 1971. Mind you, there are a lot of his other solos that I also think are great. But that one is beutifully constructed.

the Grondahl Concerto, played with an orchestra (Lindberg recording)

the ballads on J.J. Johnson's CD, "The Brass Orchestra"

Carl Fontana/Rex Richardson/Willis Delony/Bill Grimes/Rich Thompson...

Lester Leaps In.

"Romance", written by Carl Maria von Weber performed by Lindberg. Gives me goosebumps everytime. Especially the first 2 or 3 phrases.  

The  entire first disc of Kenny Wheelers' "Music for Large and Small Ensembles"....

....some amazing writing - Specifically "For Jan" (third movement)....crazy beautiful!!

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Robin

Trombone Stuff:
The Chopin Etude from John Rojak's CD

Non Trombone Stuff:
The Violin Solo on Medetation from Thais
RAchmaninoff 2nd Piano Cto

for trombone, really stolen from Horn, but De Profundis by Garden Reed. it's on linberg's cd: the sacred trombone. trombone and organ. killer high part. not because it goes into the stratesphere, but if you ever see it or play it you'll understand instantly why.

non trombone, Dinerstein, "when david heard"

maybe a little carmina burana in there too    those horny monks are just so much fun.

Mahler Symphony No. 10, Movement I.  Especially the prime melody.

Bruckner Symphony No.6

Rosolino's "Here's that rainy day" from Bobby Knight's Great American Trombone Co.
Slow movement from Mahler's 5th symphony.

Both bring me out in floods of tears.......  

'Georgia on my mind' - The Great Kai and JJ

and the middle movement of 'Year of the Dragon' by Phillip Sparke.

It's so hard to choose, but a few that come to mind:

Trombone:
Heinrich Schütz, "Fili Mi Absalom."
Poulenc, "Sonata for Horn, Trumpet, and Trombone."

Non-trombone:
Josquin, "Missa Pange Lingua."
Britten, "Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings."
Stravinsky, "Symphony of Psalms."

Music-related: I'm thinking "Tannhauser." And Tom Harrell.

Non-music related: My wife saying, "I do."

Awwwwww....

A few come to mind:
- Brass section in the middle of the second movement to Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra
- Rachmaninoff's First Piano Cto., second movement
- Bass Trombone / Tuba Db in Debussy's Fetes from Three Nocturnes
It's about a 518-way tie, though.

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]quote:[/font][font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Originally posted by Dale Cruse:

Non-music related: My wife saying, "I do." [/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]very hip

Frank, de profundis is a bear! I think it works better on alto t-bone.

The most beautiful thing that pops into my head was an air force brass quartet of two euphs, a horn, and tuba playing "Wachet auf!" it was so rich.

The Finale from "The Firebird" will always send chills up my spine.

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]quote:[/font][font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Originally posted by Frank:
Frank, de profundis is a bear! I think it works better on alto t-bone.[/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]whoa! someone else knows the piece! you say that because of timbre or range? for better or worse I've never even held an alto, so i've never tried it on one.

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]quote:[/font][font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Originally posted by sts:
The Finale from "The Firebird" will always send chills up my spine. [/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]ditto. I love the firbird and rite of spring to death.

Right!  How could I forget the Firebird.

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]quote:[/font][font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Originally posted by legendary27:
'Georgia on my mind' - The Great Kai and JJ

and the middle movement of 'Year of the Dragon' by Phillip Sparke. [/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]ABSOLUTELY!!! to both.  I would add all of "Year of the Dragon" and Carl Fontana's "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" on "The Great Fontana" CD.

I played with the Indianapolis Brass Choir at the Great Brass Band Festival in Danvile Ky in 1998 or 1999.  We did "Year of the Dragon" among other pieces.  Man, it's tough but worth all the work - what an incredible feeling after the final note! Nick Childs, of the Childs Brothers Euphonium players performed with us on the concert (there's a neat guy who really knows his beers - haha).  You Europeans sure have your stuff together with those Brass Band competions.  I believe "Dragon" was the required piece for the finals.  Phillip Sparke is a super composer.  We did the tenor horn section with french horns - interesting contrast when compared to the CD of the finals (circa 1996/1997 ???).

Carl Fontana- Stardust- Bobby Knight GATC

Morton Lauridsen:  Les Chansons de Roses

My son's doctor:  "He's going to be okay" (he's been in the hospital this week)

"You're hired" (I'll be unemployed in three weeks--thank God we're covered (health insurance) thru August 31)

Daniel De Kok

From Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 7

NACHTMUSIK I, as played by the Wiener Philharmoniker under Leonard Berstein.    

It is for me the most impressive music written by Gustav Mahler however dare it is to say that, I know.

Malaga (gene mota)  

Today,I've heard 5th movement from Mahler's2 played by NY Philharmonic under L.Bernstein.The trombone's choral...It was amazing.It's example of unusual perfection.I liked it.  

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]quote:[/font][font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Originally posted by Frank B:
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[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]ditto. I love the firbird and rite of spring to death. [/QB][/QUOTE]

The Rite is awesome, too.  Especially the end.  But that's, umm, a different sort of beauty.  Hmmm, what else?  The first movement of The Foutains of Rome is also gorgeous.

And I just listened to Kenton's Malaguena again: that falls into it's very own category of beauty.    (I might get to play that next year *crosses fingers*)

"Pie Jesu" from Faure's Requiem, well performed.

Musically speaking, of course.

Stan Kenton's "Send in the Clowns".

Stan Kenton "Here's That Rainy Day"
Ny Philharmonic conducted by Lenny-Appalachian Spring
the list goes on but i cant remember them all right now

A track from an old Folkways LP with Indian music. Singer Kumari Jotika (sp?) Ray doing a cut with a great violin player. All I remember. Heard it back in 1962-3, never again.
The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady, Charles Mingus (with awesome Quentin 'Butter' Jackson, Charlie Mariano and Dannie Richmond.)
Benjamin Britten's Strings, Horn & Tenor with Barry Tuckwell and Peter Pears.
Red Garter / Duke
Invisible Lady / Charles Mingus with Jimmy Knepper on bone.
Ida Lupino (comp by Carla Bley) with Paul Bley Trio 1965.
Blues for Jimmy Noone / Kid Ory with Ed Garland on bass.
to name a few
erling

If you're talking beautiful trombone solos, I like Bill Watrous on "All the Way" from the Sinatraland CD and Tommy Dorsey's solo on "My Romance" from the Paul Whiteman 50th Anniversary Tribute album.

Some of the sections of Messiaen's Tunangalila Symphony are very beautiful, especially when the sound of the ondes martinot sails over the orchestra, and the brass chorales can knock you for six.

For sheer beauty in the area of brass music I would nominate the middle section of Dr Philip Wilby's The Dove Descending.  Very quiet, ethereal writing, a real oasis of peace.  The piece was written as a test piece for the British open in Manchester in millenium year, and he celebrates the coming of Christ with spectacular fanfares and cadenzas framing the central Nativity section.

Hello,

The two most beautiful things I have ever heard in trombone playing are J.J. Johnson playing "Laura" from the "J.J. in person" album, and Jiggs Whigham playing "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" from "the Jiggs up" album.


Masterblaster

Third movement from "Pines of Rome" by Respighi.
Last movement from Mahler 9.

Ditto the "Send in the Clowns"

Also an "I love you" from that very special someone.  (I know, I'm a young, naive, sappy, kid.  Don't care.)

Well I have to say that I have an addiction. Well two addictions. First, I'm addicted to Joe Alessi. Second, I'm addicted to harp. Third, I'm addicted to Joe Alessi and harp. I guess thats three.....having said that here goes the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard.

Joe Alessi
Trombonastics
1. Beau Soir for Trombone and Harp
2. La Fille Aux Cheyeux de Lin (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) Trombone and Harp

Not Trombone
Hungarian Fantasy Liszt

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]quote:[/font][font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Originally posted by HANK LAMBERT:
Carl Fontana- Stardust- Bobby Knight GATC [/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Hey Hank,
this is not on my LP of GATC is it an extra bonus track on the Cd re-release or what??????
Bean.......  

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]quote:[/font][font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Originally posted by Daiel88H:
(I know, I'm a young, naive, sappy, kid) [/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Don't you dare say that, Daniel! If you DON'T feel that an "I love you" from a very special someone, or indeed anyone, is the most beautiful thing you could hear, you might as well wrap yourself in your shroud, right now, and say "Goodbye world".

Ah, but which "I love You" is it that you love Dan? Is it the Cole Porter tune as recorded by Chet Baker, Frank Rosolino, JJ, and a dozen others? Or is it "I Love You" from the Song of Norway? Or is it the Archer Thompson tune as recorded by Dan Barrett - which I personally think tops all of 'em.    

As if I didn't know it was the Cole Porter JJ version!  

I believe there are several other tunes with the same title.

Barber's "Adagio for Strings"
Frank Rosolino playing "Stardust"
"I Love You" from the mouths of my kids and wife
Charlie Vernon playing the Ravel "Pavane" several years ago
Many more too numerous

Don

I agree about "Polka Dots and Moonbeams" from the Great Fontana album.

Here's my Off-The-Top-Of-My-Head List:

Most of the Mahler Symhphonies (I feel about Mahler's symphonies the way Groucho Marx reportedly felt about his girlfriends -- when asked which was his favorite, he replied, "The one I'm with.")

"Four Prayers of St. Francis" by Poulenc (for male chorus)

Several portions of Bernstein's Mass, including the 1st Meditation, "I Miss the Gloria," the Sanctus, and of course, the closing canon

Benny Goodman's recording of the Copland Concerto

All six of Bartok's String Quartets

Ella Fitzgerald's "The Man I Love" from the album she did with Clark Terry, Harry Edison, Joe Pass, Zoot Simms, Lockjaw Davis, Ray Brown, Tommy Flanagan and Louis Bellson (I forget the name of the record).

Basically everything else that Ella recorded

Domingo and Milnes doing the "Au fond du temple saint" from Bizet's "The Pearl Fishers"

"Un aura amorosa" from "Cosi fan tutte" by Mozart

...Boy, there sure is a lot of great stuff out there, most of which I have completely ignored.  If you want to continue this conversation in detail, feel free to come over to my house, and we'll discuss it over some beer.

Everyone's invited!

- Andy

Oh, I forgot "Portrait of Tracy" from Jaco Pastorius' debut album.

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]quote:[/font][font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Originally posted by BFW:
Heinrich Schütz, "Fili Mi Absalom."
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[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]pssssssst..... hey... went out and bought this, just got it in the mail terday- very good, very good. wish i could sing that low! Baritone me.

But if anybody's looking for it, it is also sometiems spelled "Absalon"!

Rimsky-Korsakov - "Sheherezade" (sp?)

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[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]quote:[/font][font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Originally posted by HANK LAMBERT:
Carl Fontana- Stardust- Bobby Knight GATC [/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]Hey Hank,
this is not on my LP of GATC is it an extra bonus track on the Cd re-release or what??????
Bean.......    [/font]

[font=Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]I didn't even think of that! I believe it is on the cd only. Too many years since I 've even seen the record jacket. I got the cd @ Hickey's I think

In addition to all of my obvious favorites that I can access easily via my collection    , there was once a time, around 1:00 a.m., when I was listening to Michigan State Public Radio and heard a FANTASTIC recording of an Indian (Asian) cellist with drum playing in an Indian classical style.  The thing was 'bout 45 minutes long, uses their wonderful tonal system based on just intonation (i.e., NOT equal temperament, NOT 12 notes in a scale), and the cellist was just plain BAD!!    

Unfortunately, at the end, the radio announcer did a wonderful job of pronouncing the name of the piece and performers and the names were so uniquely Indian that I had no chance of remembering any of them - and nothing to write with was handy.