JS Bach Toccata and Fugue in D Minor- Canadian Brass Quintet

[MrJasonb27]

i love it!....but it's not a brass quintet. it's a brass choir

[mbabitt]

My mom listened to this on the radio and she thought "That sounded horrible!"

Then she found out that it was played by the Canadian Brass.

[daDavemeister]

that's one big quintet

[Laanen]

right, the best, love it

[nairdaoneub]

amazing guys!!  congratulations

[Laanen]

awesome!

[Aaron5ash]

I think 3 people forgot what great music sounds like

[ArtyomAndreasyan]

Please watch Stokowski's orchestratred version for Full Orchestra. Thanks.

[bbbiggs]

Does anyone else here the horn go into the atmosphere at 7:06 or is it just me?

[bluecollarboiler]

wowsers! I've only ever heard this piece performed on an organ!

[littlephoenix1115]

the canadian brass double quintet?

[kingjezza]

I like how they've managed to split the original organ parts for each brass instrument. Great work on a masterpiece!

[SuperBabyStudios]

3 Americans disliked this.

[freakchild12]

german brass better but canadian brass still AMAZING

[robertbaldwinxu]

Isn't this the best thing ever?

[franckydap]

i hate the piccardi ending

[bbbiggs]

7:02 literally scared the shit outta me.

LOVE IT!!

[babygunjah]

for those who don't know soprano and piccolo trumps are different!

[babygunjah]

Are you hearing the piccolo notes on the soprano trumpet!!!!!!!! that takes skill!!!!!!!

[babygunjah]

I love the angry Tenor and Bass it is amazing to me i play clarinet Ab Eb Bass, was first chair for 4 years this is one of if not the most amazing renditions of this piece that i have ever heard!!!!!

[scp88np]

I always thought the usual minor chord at the end of this piece seemed out of place, anyway, so I really like this. They never fail.

[bend3ro2]

Major chord isn't the norm but yeah it fits nicely.

[mpfreak86]

they ended on major instead of minor!

[MAEdalgo]

Picardy

[UCMsinger]

this is really really good. very clean, and great phrasing.

[LionsheadBrass]

Trumpets Ryan Anthony Brandon Ridenour Joe Burgstaller Joey Tartell Horn Jeff Nelsen Gavin Reed Trombone Gene Watts Pete Ellefson Zack Bond (Bass) Tuba Chuck Daellenbach

[musico81986]

Was that a piccolo trumpet screaming all those high notes?

Great vid!

[taylorfong1]

Shitttt. epic bass trombone.

[Iammyselfforlife]

6:30 to 6:43 is my favorite part.

[speedfreakZ28]

7:01 best part in my opinon

[wslb2009]

as a tubaist and trombonist id have to say that it is quite hard to pick with part was more interesting because they were equally wonderful. but when it was only the tuba and trombones the tuba by far had a better and darker sound.

[AKApablo58]

SEXY 7:02

[xgromx]

I'm sure it was way more amazing than it is on here in person.

[DerBKReichstag]

I have no idea when this was recorded but the venue is the Kresge Auditorium at Interlochen Center for the Arts. I graduated on that stage. If you look very closely, you can see the light from the fading sun through the sound shells get dimmer as they play.

[DrStrangefate]

I think I like German Brass' performance a bit more

[hellomynameishein]

Jeff goes crazy at 7:05 up to an high D :D

[BenBarfuss]

When and where was this impressive performance?

[dunavuk]

The impressive performance is almost never on the video you take of it, never watch that...

[bcschmerker]

Impressive treatment of BWV 565 here.

[lars517]

simply stunning!

[speedfreakZ28]

7:00 and on was best :)

[MusicisMYlife210]

i drooled a little on that last chord, such perfection shouldn't be achievable...lol

[anushca100]

This made my cry. Very well played. Awesome, thanks for sharing.

[romanian1991]

amazingly played. only thing that kinda caught my eye is when the tuba put his bell forward. idk if he was clearing the spit valve or what. kinda unprofessional. but who cares. AMAZING

[mikrowavr]

something to aspire to.

I wanna play with a group like this.

[romanian1991]

damn. note at like 7:05 that tuba got really low and loud. thats sweet. very well played.

[bobrzykos]

YES !!! YOU RIGHT!!!

[TromboneRay]

it's the bass trombone who played that real low note!!

God bless this awesome instrument..!!

[ivan1127]

The tuba player played a low D close to a pedal, he does this 5 times during the piece and like ff or fff.

Pure amazingness.

[musico81986]

Why is it a quintet if theres 10?!?!

[AkaPie88]

Quintet refers to the number of different instruments; Trombone, Trumpet, Bass Trumpet, Tuba, and French Horn in this case...

[wildkiger]

The Canadian Brass is a group of 5. Two trumpets, French horn, Trombone, and tuba. I assume they just have extra players for this performance or piece.

[TptEg02]

This is from the "Legends" album and tour... they had older Canadian members as well as recent ones with them on the CD/tour.  This is a "double quintet".

[FrenchHornHippie]

Holy shit, this is at Kresge, isn't it? I miss interlochen so much!!!! <3

Great job though, I love the canadian brass

[Cazzay16]

heyyyyy :)

this is amazinggg XD

i love the trumpetss expesh tho coz im a grade 8 trumpet playerr XD

and your not a silly tubistt tuba players aare awessuummm! my best friend charl plays it :) i love these playerss their amazing!!!

great bandd :)

and it is a quintet their just doubling the parts :) 5 parts 2 on one of the parts in each XD

and their not canadian?????

:S

okayyy :)

[Drworm89]

This is Canadian Brass promoting their new CD, isn't it?

[amac567]

This is at INTERLOCHEN!!!

[trumpeterfan]

This is so great! I just love this song, too. Maybe it is better when they play it themselves.

[satpler34]

this isnt a quintet.. quitet is 5, this has 9 people in it.

[YoJoe456]

I think it's Canadian Brass and another quartet.

[Drworm89]

there's 10 anyway.

[futurecrowntrumpet]

so... fucking... beast!!!!! :`(

[chriscurtin1]

was this at Ravinia in Chicago? I was there!!!

[mote65]

the other guys look like they might be in college, and the bass trombone is amazing! I'm a trumpet player, and I agree that the playing is a little sloppy in places, but that's probably just the adrenaline the younger guys have of playing with THE canadian brass HAHA. Those guys are the best known brass quintet without a doubt. lol. I want to start my own, but i don't know any brass players in my city lol.

[PolyphonicSeduction]

Yeah, I've got the same problem, there is nobody to play with around here. I would love it if I had at least one good musician around here to converse with. All that's around here is just my trumpet teacher but you can't really be a full time friend/hangout with you're trumpet teacher since he is an adult and has to work all the time ya know? He's my friend and all but it's not the same.

[littlephoenix1115]

who else is playing to make it a double quintet?

[crwv]

who are the other players? (extra 5)

[linux23dragon2008]

That bass Trombone sounds good. But the trumpets blear over the band too much at times making a very bright sounding band.

That maybe due to the recording device and the room acoustics but it hurts my ears.

Otherwise this band is not to bad

[Hyryu418]

not too bad?!?! do you know who the Canadian Brass are?! you don't know anything

[Shrutefan99]

Yeah seriously, come on... As a trumpet player and a Canadian I'm mildly insulted by your comment. Please listen to some of their other songs before you judge them as a band.

[PolyphonicSeduction]

that's funny, "As a trumpet player and a Canadian", lol, you know that they are not from canada right?

They started in florida, lol, I should know Fred Mills teaches at UGA here in georgia two or three hours from where I live.

I asked him about it one time and he called it Canadia. ha ( on purpose of course )

[bbbiggs]

It's funny how when you make someone look stupid on here, in which you did lol, they don't reply..

[PolyphonicSeduction]

I probably shouldn't have since I'm on his side of whatever argument he was in but I mean c'mon, Canada? Didn't wana "mildly" insult him further but he needed to know before someone worse than me called him flat out stupid, which he's not I guess, but crap, who cares about Canada?

[Shrutefan99]

Hey my bad... Sorry for assuming they were Canadian based on the word Canadian being in their name. I guess I just have an inherit instict to defend anything with that word in it. Canadian's get a lot of crap from Americans, and yes, I know Americans don't care, but hey, we don't really care whether you care or not.. But thanks for fixing my facts.

[Shrutefan99]

Wait, never mind your bad... Here it is, straight from their website. "The Canadian Brass sprang from modest and highly experimental roots in Toronto, Ontario, in 1970." Thus the Canadian Brass, originating in Canada. There is some claim to the Canadian in their name. Sorry, just pointing out that, "you know that they are not from canada right?", is mostly false. Just clearing the record.

[PolyphonicSeduction]

They started the group in Canada after some concert, but they themselves are NOT FROM Canada, I talked to Fred Mills, who teaches two hours from here at the UGA. He was one of the two Original trumpet players of the canadian brass, he told me exactly how it started, he himself, they got the IDEA after some concert in Canada, it still wasn't official then, More technically they started in Florida.

There, Record Cleared for those that don't know.

[casedog21]

The real canadian brass... Ronald Rohm, Fred Mills, Gene Watts, David Ohanian (or the other guy, both were good.) and Chuck. I actually got to spend some time with them in '96 on tour and very interesting to get to know them.

[trumpterman]

YESSS! ONe of the best concerts i've ever been to

[BigFlipFlap]

Nice bass trombone!!! What would it sound like with out it!!! Great performance!!!

[Finners0]

That bass trombone just adds so much power to some parts... Like right after the opening low brass part when they start to build the chord... That first note gave me the chills the first time I listened lol.

[hrntchr]

Great show guys; as I,m sure the audience was impressed with the up tempo even if it was a bit much as most of the audience probably were not all brass players.

[trumpet38416]

This BWV 565 version is good but some of it is a little sloppy, and some runs were taken too fast to show off. Plus they changed the arpeggios in the ending to something boring, and changed the last chord to D major! But its still good. Nothing is as good as the german brass version but they lose major points cause they left that huge part of the fugue out.

[tommyandjude]

This concert pretty much owned anything I have ever been to before in my life.

[tubachick]

Oh god, me tooooooo. I saw The Empire Brass when I was in middle school and just waited for the day I'd see the Canadian Brass. Absolutely amazing.

[Philbatrom]

@tommyandjude  you should listen to the German brass play this

[SeybertGuy]

Wow....unbeillavble.

[trumpetmaster09]

Such a wonderful performance. The only thing I disagreed with was that some of the runs were taken a bit too fast, but all in all It was very well done.

[TUBAMANKRIS]

i fkn love this song. its my fave. thanks for sending it to me:)