QUOTE(g.tuba @ Feb 21 2006, 06:08 PM)
I've got my A2 recital to do before Easter this year, and I'm really stuck for a theme and possible pieces.
I was hoping to include both "Andante and Rondo" by Antonio Cupuzzi, arranged by Phillip Catelinet as it was in my grade 8 line up and is under my belt. These pieces were orginally for Double Bass, and written between 1755-1818.
"I was hoping..." makes it sound as if for some reason you can't play both of them. Is that what you meant?
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Because of the tuba part being an arrangment, I thought about making a theme perhaps of "arrangments for tuba" or something, BUT even after looking throught ABRSM, Guildhall lists, I can't find enough pieces.
Instead of focusing on exam lists have a browse through the pages of Tuba pieces in the catalogue of June Emerson Wind Music
http://www.juneemerson.co.uk/On her home page it says: "We carry a stock of more than than 32,500 titles of music for wind instruments ready for despatch worldwide. This is probably the largest and most varied stock of wind music anywhere, and it is growing daily." Ideally you need to get some specific suggestions from someone who really knows the repertoire if your teacher isn't helping - it's possible there's someone on the Emerson staff who could help. Worth asking. A repertoire question on Viva Brass might catch some people who don't read this one. Also worth a try.
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I do have Gordon Jacob's tuba suite, obviously being 20th century, but those pieces don't really match with the Capuzzi.
I don't know what you mean by "don't match", or why it matters. I think of good recital programmes as including contrast, and I always hope they will include recent music if possible. Gordon Jacob has been dead for quite a while now (died 1984), but he was at least alive in my lifetime if not yours.
Do you have to have a "theme"? Could it be something really vague like "the tuba through the centuries"?
Good luck!
