I have revised all of the movements from Holst's "The Planets" to include piano. Full suite available here: www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/2... "Jupiter" available here: www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/2...
There’s some balancing issues, the tune is unclear sometimes and, sometimes the articulation is wrong, but that could just be the player you are using.
Hi Reese, excellent arrangement of one of my favourite orchestral pieces. You've kept the feeling and motivation of all of the sections. As a trumpet player I would use a piccolo trumpet to make sure some of the higher range is more secure. I like the use of the piano, it adds a lot to the performance. Bravo!
I would say, the low G’s in the piano before the Hymn are pretty impossible, the doubling required is only possible on a concert grand, not to mention the distress of the player...
That part is directly from Holst's two pianos score of this piece, the notation indicates to play it using 4 fingers, one for each sixteenth note. I've never tried it but I would imagine it's doable for high level players.
Yes, but you need a pretty good trombonist to do that. I think most college trombonists wouldn't be able to but it also depends on the key. Some keys allow you to do the running notes using the F trigger which makes things much easier.
Something tells me that the arranger has never played a brass instrument nor the piano because some stuff in the piece is literally impossible for a person to play. However, good transposition, even if some things are pretty annoying in the piece
lol it’s just chromatics and the dectuplets aren’t hard at all at the tempo given at the end.. the piano part is also very possible in the places you mentioned. this arrangement struggles in many other places but everything you mentioned is very possible... hard but possible (coming from a piano player of 12 years and trumpet of 8, neither being my main instrument)
@@atmu2871 Right, how many trumpet players do you know who can go 21 straight measures of 16th notes with no breath? The answer is zero unless you are talking about Rafael Mendez, Wynton Marsalis, or a small number of other world famous players who can circular breath while playing angular double tonguing like this. If you write a part that only a handful of players in history can play, that is certainly a skill issue: an arranging skill issue.
