Considering the outrageous amount of colour and detail Strauss shoehorned into the original work, Jay has done a pretty damn good job of capturing the essence of the work in a lot of it's glory in this arrangement. Also wonderful seeing Philip Smith & Joe Alessi popping over to lend their fabulous chops to the show.
Insanely brilliant. I'm amazed at the lack of "hardware" - If I did this I'd be armed to the teeth with piccolo, Eb trumpet, a friendly bumper when tired and a spare set of chops. Credit to the trumpet section it's a majority of C trumpet. Stupendous playing
I heard a story from a friend about that. He was invited to join in on a lesson with James Watson, where another trumpet player was the student. They were playing orchestral exceprts and started on their Bb Trumpets (brits!). When the next part was in Eb my friend grabbed his Eb, while Mr Watson and the other student kept their C Trumpets. "Ah? You play everything on the C Trumpet?" "Yes." "But isn't that much harder?" "Yes"
@@MarcusHammarberg Met James Watson,John Wallace and John Wilbraham in parkers shop who were sitting there chatting. I was picking up my Bb after it had been in for silver plating. Hadn't played for 2 weeks Adrian Parker said "Don't you want to check it out ?"... eh no, it'll be fine said the young 16 year old me... terrified of playing in front of my hero's. Did get them to autograph a book of duets I bought... lovely people.
This is brilliant! A Brass section like no other. There was an entire Gabrieli concert with this same team on RU-vid years back that seems to have disappeared. Pity!
Yes the Gabrieli concert you referenced was the first half of this program. Strauss was the second half that you see here. They are on two separate DVDs .
@@ashleykerner3 he also sells this production on DVD, so isn't this RU-vid video a blatant copyright infringement that directly undermines the income of artists? 🤔
Amazing performance! A delight for the ears and the soul. (The only shame is the video direction... Totally approximate and not at all professional. It's true that music should be listened to, but since cameras are turned on and a recording is made, it would be better to do it well, out of respect for the music, the audience and the orchestra professors)
