[Trombone-l] Tuba mirum

[Charles DePaolo]

Reminds me of a fax order I saw once when touring the G.Henle offices in Saint Louis a few years ago. The staff there was so enamoured of the order, they mounted it above the fax machine for posterity.  It was of course for a copy of Beethoven's ever so popular piano solo, "Furry Lease."  

--Chuck
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Howard Weiner 
  To: Scott Bean ; trombone-l at samford.edu 
  Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 4:57 AM
  Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Tuba mirum


  At 14:09 20.01.2008 -0500, Scott Bean wrote:
  >One of my college kids was doing some research 
  >and came across this on the Opera Today 
  >website.  Does anyone know if the Neukomm 
  >edition has a trombone solo part for the Tuba 
  >Mirum?  The particular section of the article is pasted below.

  Scott,

  The author of this review has no idea what she is 
  talking about, in spite a PhD. For example, she 
  has turned the chorus, the Kantorei Saarlouis, 
  into the choir director! ("Choirmaster, Kantorei 
  Saarlouis, exhibits excellent control over the choral properties here ..." )

  Nevertheless, the Neukomm "edition" only concerns 
  the conclusion of the Requiem. Normally, the 
  Requiem ends with "Lux aeterna" to the music of 
  the opening "Requiem aeternam" (starting at m. 
  19). For a performance in 1821, Neukomm composed 
  a "Libera Me" to follow after the "Lux aeterna." 
  This is apparently the first recording employing Neukomm's finale.

  For the rest of the recording, one of the usual 
  editons (probably Süssmayer's) was undoubtedly 
  used. However, the reviewer was obviously unable 
  to distinguish the sound of a trombone from that 
  of a horn. You can listen to the opening of the 
  Tuba mirum from the recording in question at:
  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000CCG21W/ref=nosim?tag=musicontheweb02&link_code=as3&creativeASIN=B000CCG21W&creative=373489&camp=211189

  Definitely trombone.

  Howard



  --
  Howard Weiner
  h.weiner at online.de
  http://howard-weiner.de/

  Tosca jumped to a conclusion.  


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