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This page will be updated periodically to list recordings that we have played for you in class, as well as suggested recordings for your enjoyment. Some recordings are famous solo pieces for specific instruments. These recordings will give you an example of professional tone quality on your instrument.
Russian Sailor’s Dance (from The Red Poppy)……………Gliere ( 7-1 and 8-2 Bands are performing this piece for Festival. Listen to the recording and count how many tempo changes you hear. Also, what instruments on the recording are playing your parts? You will also notice that the orchestra version has lots of runs in the woodwind parts).
Fanfare for the Common Man………………Aaron Copland (Written for Brass and Percussion only. Great Tympani and Brass playing!!!!!!)
Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral………………………..Richard Wagner (One of the greatest crescendoes ever written; great example of woodwind sounds and brass crescendo)
El Salon Mexico……………Aaron Copland (Excellent example of Bassoon technique also a fantastic clarinet and trumpet cadenza)
First Suite in Eb for Military Band………………………..Gustav Holst
I: Chaconne
II: Intermezzo
III: March
Festive Overture………………….Dmitri Shostakovich (Great fanfare style, technique and snare rolls)
Overture to Colas Breugnon…………………Kabalevsky (Great examples of brass playing and woodwind technique)
Adagio and Allegro, op. 70……………………….Robert Schumann
Clarinet Recordings
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano………………………Francis Poulenc
I: Allegro Tristement
II: Romanza
III: Allegro con fuoco
Solo de Concours, Opus 10………………………….Henri Rabaud
Concerto No. 1 in F Minor, Opus 73 ……………….Carl Maria von Weber
I. Allegro
Concerto for Clarinet in A Major, K. 622…………………..Wolfgang Mozart
II: Adagio (Probably the most performed piece ever written for solo clarinet)
Clarinet Evergreens………….Budapest Clarinet Quintet (CLARINET CHOIR MEMBERS SHOULD CHECK THIS OUT!!!!!!!!!!! This is an entire album of clarinet quintet music. You might want to check out the following pieces from the album: The Tale of the Tsar Saltan – very fast technique; Pizzicato Polka – since we are playing a polka piece ourselves; The Easy Winners and Rose Leaf Rag are Scott Joplin arrangements for clarinet choir. 7-2 Class played some Joplin in the last concert on Reindeer Rag).
Flute Recordings
Concerto No. 1 in G Major for Flute and Orchestra……….Wolfgang Mozart (Great example of technique!!!!)
I. Allegro Maestoso
Flute Concertino, Opus 107……………………….Cecile Chaminade
Concert Saxophone Samples
Concertino da Camera [Jacques-Francois Ibert 1935]
- I. Allegro con moto
- II. Larghetto
- III. Animato Moto
Saxophone Concerto in Eb [Alexander Glazunov in 1934]
- I. Allegro Moderato
- II. Andante
- III. Allegro
Saxophone Quartet, Op. 109: Canzona [Alexander Glazunov]
Essential Jazz music – chronological
1. The Beginning – Dixieland/Swing
- Original Dixieland One Step [Al Hirt]
- South Rampart Street Parade [Al Hirt]
- After You’ve Gone [Al Hirt] or [Benny Goodman]
- Ain’t Misbehavin [Al Hirt] or [Fats Waller]
- St. James Infirmary [Lous Armstrong]
- Tiger Rag [Ar Tatum]
2. Early Jazz/Swing/Big Band
- In the Mood [Glenn Miller Orchestra]
- A String of Pearls [Glenn Miller Orchestra]
- Take the “A” Train [Duke Ellington & HIs Orchestra]
- Harlem Nocturne [Les Brown]
- Sing, Sing, Sing [Benny Goodman]
- King Porter Stomp [Benny Goodman]
- Sugar Blues [Clyde Mccoy]
3. Be Bop
- Salt Peanuts [Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra]
- Ornithology [Charlie Parker]
- A Night in Tunisia [Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker]
- Groovin’ High [Charlie Parker]
- Don’t Blame Me [Charlie Parker]
- Straight, No Chaser [Thelonius Monk]
4. Modern Jazz
- St. Thomas [Sonny Rollins]
- Doodlin [ Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers]
- Take Five [The Dave Brubeck Quartet]
- Giant Steps [John Coltrane Quartet]
- Desafinado [Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd]
- So What [Miles Davis & John Coltrane]
- Cakewalk [Oscar Peterson]
- Better Git It In Your Soul [Charles Mingus]
- Birdland [Weather Report]
5. Modern Big Band
- Nice ‘N Juicy [Maynard Ferguson]
Chameleon [Maynard Ferguson]
- Gospel John [Maynard Ferguson]
- Birdland [Maynard Feguson]
- Open Up WIde [Chase]
- Straight, No Chaser [Buddy Rich]
- Better Git It In Your Soul [Charles Mingus]
- Slauson Cut-Off [Bill Watrous]
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