Aaron Copland, Quiet City

Aaron Copland's "Quiet City". for Trumpet, Cor Englais and Strings. Here in piano reduction.

Trumpet:
Trent Hopkinson (Masters, Monash University)

Cor Englais:
Dafydd Camp (B.Mus, Melbourne University)

Piano:
Adam Simpson (B.Mus Monash University)

Production: Trent Hopkinson.
(intermixed and fixed audio)
(Video first draft)

Audio from Rehearsals at Mannix College, and Recital at Monash University. Editing done by Trent Hopkinson in Nero Wave Editor.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Copland
• Quiet
• City
• Quiet_City
• Cor
• Englais
• Cor_englais
• Trumpet
• Piano
• Reduction
• Piano_Reduction
• College
• Monash
• Mannix

[moomeppl]

This is a hard song to pull off. i'm doing it for solo and ensemble (I play trumpet). It's so so so beautiful though, I love it. You guys are well on your way to perfecting it =] Trumpet sound is gorgeous but If I may, I would suggest overall you could use a little more dynamic contrast.

[musicalaviator]

Yep, probably could go with the dynamics, though there's also balance with the cor to work out. Awesome piece though. Played it on 3 occasions now with the same crew.

[sdgull]

Pitch Problems all over the place.... is this a serious attempt or a 'mock up'?

[musicalaviator]

Look at where we are 'performing' (practicing) it. In a crappy little room with no audience. Is this a serious question or a 'mock up'. Audio had to be spliced together from a few different performances also since we stopped a few times.

[spacepatrolman]

@moomeppl The quiet city chord of coland is quite a chord it is 2 chords combined a polychord something like the mystic chord of scriabin

[marcostar57]

Great job! I'm not a musician of any sort, unfortunately, but a fan of Copeland and of all great music.

[OfficerRobertHall]

GREAT JOB! As an English hornist, I have played this piece many times. Although not technically difficult, it is EXTREMELY difficult to pull off well, as well as playing in tune (from my aspect, there are lots of alternate fingerings one has to use, and there's lots of lipping up and down to keep them in tune) ... you really need to have "that connection" with the pianist and trumpeter. I actually enjoy the piano vs. the strings for the "accompaniment."

[Buzzby2003]

Very nice. It's not easy to pull of any sort of emotional 'pull' through the reduced audio provided with YouTube and the space that you were in - but I felt it just the same - so very nice job.

[1OOYears]

not bad, nice job on the solo

[Joohhvis]

This Copland piece is quite rare, but to all fans, a classic. Awesome job! You captured the emotions of the chords. Bravo! So simple, only 3 instruments.

[OboeQueen27]

I like the Eh, nice top register... i have to play this for chamber music and I am worried my old beast is going to be all warble, warble up there

[macaholic18]

i am studying aaron copland in my music listening class at school.