Adagio for Strings

[ceazerstp]

After being a musician for more than 10 years, being a drum corps memeber and a principal french horn player this is by far my favorite rendition of Adagio. Brass kicks ass!

[NickRobo1994]

god horns are beautiful.

[beak1972]

aye canadian i hear you. I dont get to practice as often as i want. Its hard for me to find the time to pick up my euphonium, between work, family, workouts and daily house chores i have maybe 10-15 min to play. I just need to find the time. Cheers my musician friend...=)

[NickRobo1994]

1:30 ugh....

[NickRobo1994]

this song sets your emotions running crazy

[tubaman1019]

wow this is great. beautiful brass sounds, nothing makes me happier :)

[Skaterdon77]

4:10 ... a freaking ORGAN BABY

[RJtheUndefined15]

I need the trumpet sheet music for this.

[Saxotomitry]

I wish they had Jens Lindamen playing lead on this. Though this guy does do a good job!

[scottsteenburg]

"this guy"? Dude..... his name is Ron Romm and he was the lead trumpet player for the Canadian Brass for more than 25 years!

[theinamato]

Ron Romm is the MAN

[scoggles]

Fred Mills is the lead player. Ron Romm was playing second, although he had the solo. Ron and Jens were in the group at the same time for a while.

[CrazyKCL]

@scottsteenburg actually the lead was Freddie Mills

[headslo]

joe burgstaller is better than both of those guys tho

[willyjaybob]

"This guy?" HaHa...I hope you're kidding!

[734cat]

strings strings strings.

[CmrnNxn]

Too fast.

[Finners0]

Unlike string players, brass players have limited strengh on their lips... Even at that speed the piece is a stretch for brass players... Just imagine having it slower...

[beak1972]

It is not our lips that are limited, it is our air. Transposing string phrasing to brass is difficult as we have to break the piece in order to renew our air. I am working on Bach's Prelude for instance as a Euphonium player. Im having difficulty finding where to breathe and not ruin the phrase. This was well done by the by, yes could have been slower, but i wont nitpick it.

[theothercanadian]

@beak1972 circular breathing!

[beak1972]

@theothercanadian ive never been able to do it on a consistant basis. Do wish i could

[theothercanadian]

@beak1972 practice. it took me 1 year to get the concept, another year to do it smoothly and a 3rd to make it seamless. im an oboe player, and ive been playing for 3 and a half years.

practice can do amazing things =)

[musico81986]

Excellent!

[RyanFlynn91]

Omg I worked with Ray Crammer during NYS Conference Allstate this past year! I never knew he worked with Canadian Brass... Pretty amazing guy.

[terminator626]

omg.. so sad yet heroic i will play this song this veterans day for the men who died Amen

:..(

[sandcrab132]

the song is about rebirth.

Not death.

[impreza5150]

HEY RAQUEL! We marched together for this piece. Thanks for posting it, and all the other Brass Theater pieces.

Kinda feels like those years, for Star, were lost- THANK YOU !!

Thank

[voubass55]

fantastic version!!

better than the strings version!!

[scottsteenburg]

This is from Star 1995, I was a member 1994-95. Conductor is Ray Crammer, former Director of Bands at Indiana University

[willyjaybob]

Steenburg! What's up...it's Jason. We played lead together...! How the heck are ya?

[biggreenblob]

that

was

amazing

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Finners0]

Very well played. I have this arrangment and it is defniantly a lip buster. The 1st Trumpet part at the big hit holds a High C. And then a Bb. So speeding the piece up was a very wise thing to do.

<3 Canadian Brass

[xenafan235]

hi, I was wondering, who conducted this?

[davidewart11]

samuel barber

[glIzlI]

nope, Barber composed this, he didnt conduct :)

[nateyuan92]

this is awesome. better than what my orchestra sounded likee :|

[charlesknx]

what year is this

[81g80y]

agree with the stagger breathing there ...... totally ruined it

[JRMcDoogle]

nice, but ENTIRELY to fast! To really pull this off they would need to scrap the Canadian Brass and stagger hardcore.

[hornmasta0610]

lighten up dude... thats a tough blow for brass they did a good job

[zartom85]

I love the Canadian Brass

[kevinbomb]

this song is extremely hard to pull off on brass, I'm impressed!

[gaoliefreak]

I think it is a great compliment when your (if you were a composer) music was played in many different ways. Like Bachs music, is not just performed on organ or harpsichord anymore.

[jzer21]

I see why Barber wrote it for strings.

[ajwitherby]

bravo!

[bellband]

Very powerful

[bowlerdude]

I recently went to see the Canadian Brass play this song among other songs. I have to say this song was soooo spine-tingling good live.

[gaoliefreak]

Does anyone know what Euphonium Gene Watts is playing in it?

[mjm4455]

Looks like a Willson.

[diminishedfifth]

this is a rather fast interpretation of the piece, but a very interesting instrumentation

[jackhammerYO]

rofl

[jbarber2337]

i thought that when i first heard the recording that the canadian brass did for their new arangement, but really if it goes any slower then the players faces would fall off at the end, its a really big blow

[scottsteenburg]

this was a very, very tough piece to perfect. I remember that our first run through of this piece in the spring of 1995 almost killed me. I could not make my lips make a single sound by the end of this piece. By the end of the summer, I could play this piece several times in a row without batting an eye. Some of my more memorable moments with Star....

[scoggles]

What years were you with Star?

[RaoulDukeandGonzo]

This was AWESOME, thanks for posting!!

[rdangelo]

Great piece of music. Great vocal version out there as well, "Agnus Dei".

[potatoehead64]

Fabulous!!!! I'd love to see these folks live. This is a piece of music very close to my heart and as a trombone player in s British brass band, it means even more. Yes, its really works with brass.

[bryan2449abcdef]

def better with strings- no doubt that orchestration was inspired

[Daripa1]

You mean David Ohanian? Nice to see a vid of Canadian Brass with Messrs. Mills and Romm as trumpets.

[sdm004]

Sweet thats my old horn professor!