Gregson mvt 1 - best recording w/ band?

[arpthark]

Anybody got a favorite? YouTube is hit or miss.

[bloke]

Are you going to play it?

[arpthark]

Are you going to play it?

Yessir.

[Doc]

My long-time favorite (nostalgic, legendary) is John Fletcher with Besses O’ Th’ Barn brass band:



Derek Fenstermacher’s is another favorite done very well:



And, of course, the wonderful James Gourlay:

[bort2.0]

Derek Fenstermacher with the CCM wind ensemble, from like 13 years ago.

[bloke]

Are you going to play it?

Yessir.

I was asked to play it with a "pretty good" community band.
(I later found that they wanted me to go out of the country with them - because they needed a tuba, and was going to use that piece as a "carrot"...I couldn't and didn't want to go with them.)

What I discovered as that - unless a band is a complete group of accomplished professions (and not just professionals, but musicians) that the band is going to be VERY LOUD. The way that I combated that was to step up the tempi of the outside movements. Pushing the band to scuffle (just a little bit) lowered the volume slightly and ALSO defined that the piece was SHORTER and - therefore - the amount of time that I had to play an entire 3-movement solo piece between ff and fff(f) (simply to be heard) was less.

That's probably not as useful to you as listening to a fine player perform the piece, but maybe (??) it's useful information anyway.
Also - if you are interested in milking the applause - play the last pair of low-pitched triplets (last movement) with the tutti musicians.

[arpthark]

Are you going to play it?

Yessir.

I was asked to play it with a "pretty good" community band.
(I later found that they wanted me to go out of the country with them - because they needed a tuba, and was going to use that piece as a "carrot"...I couldn't and didn't want to go with them.)

What I discovered as that - unless a band is a complete group of accomplished professions (and not just professionals, but musicians) that the band is going to be VERY LOUD. The way that I combated that was to step up the tempi of the outside movements. Pushing the band to scuffle (just a little bit) lowered the volume slightly and ALSO defined that the piece was SHORTER and - therefore - the amount of time that I had to play an entire 3-movement solo piece between ff and fff(f) (simply to be heard) was less.

That's probably not as useful to you as listening to a fine player perform the piece, but maybe (??) it's useful information anyway.
Also - if you are interested in milking the applause - play the last pair of low-pitched triplets (last movement) with the tutti musicians.

Thank you, this is good advice. I am also going to be playing it with a "pretty good" community band.

Just doing the first movement, but I do like it a little bit zippier than Fletcher et al take it. Makes sense, though.