Re: Re: Re: TWO-TUBA orchestral works


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Posted by Richard on October 28, 2000 at 11:03:37:

In Reply to: Re: Re: TWO-TUBA orchestral works posted by Andrew on October 28, 2000 at 01:32:01:

This business about Bruckner 5th having two tuba parts. . .That's in a spurious edition, by the composer's well-meaning but officious pupils who added an auxiliary brass choir for the finale coda. So it wasn't a 2nd tuba as in Zarathustra and other works. Even after the spurious editions were discredited, a tradition arose in which the entire brass section for Bruckner 5th would be doubled for the coda, the second group would just join in. The main advocate for this was Eugen Jochum, whose live performance in 1964, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra at the 1200th Anniversary of Ottobeuren Abby in Bavaria used to be available on Philips. It's not shown at the Tower website, but a sources outside the USA may still have it. The CGB was joined by the brass of the Bavarian Radio. It was Roger Bobo's farewell performance with the CGB, and may have been Don Blakeslee's first.

BTW, Torchinsky's Bruckner book is drawn entirely from the Critical Edition by Leopold Novak, the parts we're most likely to encounter. There is another Critical Edition by Robert Haas, almost identical to the Novak, so don't worry - be happy.


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