Handel in the Strand, by Percy Grainger

[Ryack121]

wayyyyyy too slow

[Tykoluver1n]

you could not hear the oboe solo

[handarevil]

not enough consistency in articulation, but it could've been worse.

[adkii07]

beginning to loud could barely hear the horn solo. Now that i think of it... the whole thing is a bit over played... Very well but over played.

[kenny32316]

its not a horn its a euphonium :D get it right :P

[adkii07]

there may be a euph Que in there, But the first solo was written in the first horn part. I know because i played it. Its actually in the sax parts too.

or we could be talking about a different arragment...

[mholzner]

The originally arrangement, by Goldman, has a horn solo in the opening. In the Sousa/Brion/Schissel arrangement, it's a euphonium.

[keybawd]

Yes - but isn't this just glorious music? And how wonderful to hear people playing it with such relish. I love Percy Grainger's music - it just creates happiness.

[Lobshta117]

Dynamics?

I think the difference in expression between a P dynamic could have been much more dramatic compared to the F and FF of the piece.

The articulation is a little rusty also. Everything sounds staccato, not very much consistency. The trumpets sound almost like they're blasting. Good trombone section though :)

Percussion is good also I think.

My High School band just sight read this piece so I'm running around looking for good recordings!

We sight read pretty badly...

[Auka11111]

hehe, my high school played this a few years ago. We weren't good but we weren't bad hehe.

[BandMaster57]

I like the conductor's use of his left hand. The BAnd did pretty good though.

[zorapach]

hey we played this song this year for concert! (arlington hights hs.) =] I like the horn solo in the beggining! ima horn player... i didnt get 2 play that solo this year but my friend did =]

[jjmm47]

i can't hear the piccolo

[aznmunchlax]

neither can I hear the clarinet solo... ok maybe except that part around 0:40...

[IamSnickers]

wasn't percy grainger also a sadistic psycho in love with his mom?

[PuckRG]

you clearly need to learn what the def. of psychopath is my friend. While Grainger did have some...questionable fetishes and quirks with his lifestyle, he was far from being a "psycho". Every genius composer has something offbeat(no pun intended)about them. Mozart for instance was facinated by bodily functions and loved toilet humor. And Beethoven surely fits a more "psycho" personality when used as defining someone extremely antisocial. Love 'em all, their music is perfect, but their lives not.

[JGHSuperConductor]

This is actually a college groups, no scores, just for fun. The band was a bit big for such a light piece, but the keyboard players loved it, as with most Grainger, thanks for watching!

[smexyitalianoboi]

we are actually playing this for our LGPE!

but we didn't give the trumpet cue to play at the beginning... :/

oh, well. it sounded pretty good! except for the fact that the camera is taped INSIDE the band... never good. get someone in the audience to tape so you can hear from the benches and hear what it actually sounded like! :DD

what were the scores?

[aznmunchlax]

this is actually pretty darn good... compared to the other ones I saw form the band itself, this sounds actually balanced.. This one vid I saw I could only hear the french horns and trombones.. terrible D:

[jjmm47]

what video? can i see it?