Virtuoso on Euphonium Studio

Concerto for Euphonium

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Philip Wilby’s concerto is one of the most demanding and rewarding works written for the instrument, weaving virtuoso display into a serious musical architecture. It calls for command across the entire range, fearless technique, and interpretive maturity, and has become a signature vehicle for the leading soloists of the current generation.

Euphonium Concerto, Op. 120

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Derek Bourgeois’s concerto is one of the repertoire’s genuine endurance tests: harmonically adventurous, structurally ambitious, and unforgiving in its demands on range, agility, and stamina. Players who take it on are making a statement, and it rewards the effort with some of the most dramatic writing the instrument has. It is a recital centrepiece rather than an introduction.

Variations on 'The Carnival of Venice' (arr. euphonium)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Arban’s Carnival of Venice variations, borrowed from the cornet tradition, are the archetypal brass showpiece: a simple tune put through progressively more dazzling variations demanding rapid multiple-tonguing, wide slurs, and fearless agility. On euphonium it is pure crowd-pleasing display, the encore that proves the big dark instrument can be as nimble as any cornet.