for Tenor Tuba (Euphonium) and piano Vaughan Williams's Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra was the first major concerto to be written for the instrument. It was composed in 1953-4 to mark the 50th anniversary of the LSO, and was premiered by the orchestra's principal tuba player, Philip Catelinet. The original plan to transpose it for Euphonium was not realised during the composer's lifetime, and only now, in this transcription by David Childs, has that goal been attained, with Vaughan Williams's orchestration deftly transposed and rearranged by Rodney Newton to allow this characteristic work to enter the repertoire of many more players.
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Weight: 200g
Dimensions: 237 x 320mm
Publication Date: 26 Jan 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780193561137
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Ralph Vaughan Williams born in Gloucestershire on 12 October 1872 read History at Cambridge and went to the Royal College of Music where his teachers were Parry Wood and Stanford. Vaughan Williams believed in the value of music education and wrote practical competition pieces serviceable church music and with the 49th Parallel (1940-41) he found a new outlet in writing for film. His profoundly disturbing Symphony No.6 (1948) received international acclaim with more than a hundred performances in a little over two years. His great sensitivity to the 20th-century human condition his flexibility in writing for all levels of music making and his unquestionably great imagination combine to make him one of the key figures in 20th century music. Ralph Vaughan Williams had a long association with Oxford University Press; over 200 publications are available in the Oxford catalogue.