Audio Clips
Wagner Tubas
Symphony No. 7 by Anton Bruckner
Green Mountain Mahler Festival
Andrew Massey conducting
April 17, 2008
The Wagner tubas play in the 2nd and 4th movements of the symphony. We doubled on horn in the other two movements. The numbered clips are Wagner tuba snippets from our own rehearsals. Listen for us in the full orchestra clips.
Movement II Adagio
The movement is basically a tribute to Wagner, who was on his deathbed while Bruckner worked on the symphony.
The theme in Clip 1 opens the movement, and recurs several times. Clip 6 is the Dead Wagner Moment; we are playing the funeral dirge -- when you hear it in the full orchestra clip (toward the end of the 2nd movement), listen for the grief-stricken horns coming in over top of us.
- Clip 1 (0:30)
- Clip 2 (0:35)
- 2nd Movement Excerpt (Full orchestra) (4:04)
- Clip 3 (0:32)
- Clip 4 (0:32)
- Clip 5 (0:43)
- Clip 6 (1:14)
- Clip 7 (0:38)
- 2nd Movement Excerpt (Full orchestra) (7:22)
Movement IV Finale
A happier movement.
- Clip 8 (0:20)
- Clip 9 (0:53)
- Clip 10 (0:42)
- Clip 11 (0:08)
- Clip 12 (1:19)
- 4th Movement Excerpt (Full orchestra) (5:22)
- Clip 13 (0:24)
- Clip 14 (0:50)
- Clip 15 (0:13)
- Clip 16 (0:36)
- 4th Movement Excerpt (Full orchestra) (4:49)
Also check out the audio clips of us playing horn quartets on Wagner tubas. We've also got some videos.