New Great Recording!

Velvet Brown: tuba
Jimmy Finnie, Laszlo Toth,
Rick Willis: percussion

New Music for Tuba
and Percussion Ensemble

Dance Movements (2005)
Roland Szentpáli

Digressions 5 (2004)
Franz Cilbulka

Concerto for Tuba and Percussion (2003)
James Beckel

Suite for Tuba and Congas (2003)
Alice Gomez

Highlife (2003)
Alice Gomez

Music for Velvet
Crystal Records CD 693

Velvet Brown, tuba
Roberto Arosio, pianoforte

Sonata for Tuba and Piano - Eric Ewazen
Andante con moto - Andante espressivo
Allegro ritmico

Sonata for Tuba and Piano - Verne Reynolds
Moderately fast - Slow - Variations

2 AM  for Tuba and Tape - Neal Corwell

Te Dago Mi, tuba, euphonium and piano - Velvet Brown
Neal Corwell, euphonium

Zig-zags, Solo Tuba - Faye-Ellen Silverman

Bonampak for Tuba and Piano - Alice Gomez

Danse Sacrée - Henri Tomasi

«Velvet Brown presents to us a sonic feast [with] wondrous tuba tone [and] clarity and finesse of technique. This recording signals the arrival of a major new virtuoso in the world of brass performance».
Sam Pilafian

«Velvet Brown is one of the most exciting soloist I have heard in years on any instrument. Her artistry and command of the tuba is just like her name "Velvet"!»
Dan Perantoni

Velvet--Crystal Records CD 692

Velvet Brown, tuba
Roberto Arosio, pianoforte
 
Sonatine pour Tuba et Piano - Jacques Castérède 
Défilé - Sérénade - Final
 
Salve Venere, Salve Marte for solo tuba -
John Stevens 
 
As When The Dove, Aria from Acis and Galatea -  Georg Friedrich Händel/ tr. by Velvet Brown
  
Concertino für Tuba - Jan Koetsier 
Allegro con brio - Romanza e Scherzino -
Rondo Bavarese
 
Sonata for Tuba and Piano -  Bruce Broughton 
Allegro Moderato - Aria - Allegro Leggero
 
Stars in a Velvety Sky - Herbert L. Clarke/tr. by Velvet Brown

4 Spirituals for tuba and trombone quartet - arr. by Velvet Brown
Deep River - The Gospel Train - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child (solo tuba) - Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho

Recordings of interest

  • John Williams' Tuba Concerto, Composer's Voice, Volume IV, with Bowling Green Philharmonia, Albany, Compact Disc. 2003

  • Monarch Brass, Monarch Brass Ensemble and Brass Quintet, Compact Disc. 2003.

  • Heart of a Wolf, Solo Tuba and Tuba/Euphonium Duet, Nicolai Music, Compact Disc. 2000.

  • Summer Lightning, New Hampshire Music Festival Orchestra, Principal Tuba, 1996. 

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