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After a busy summer & lots of summer concert videos, I have a new arrangement! This is one of my all-time favourite pieces of music, written by Richard Wagner for the opera Lohengrin. While it is less popular than the Bridal Chorus (Here Comes the Bride) & Prelude (both from Act 3), this is by far the better piece, building up slowly but surely to a fantastic, rich ending. I chose to add the reprise from Scene 5 as it was a better ending than the chord that leads into Ortrud's angry monologue. This ending was also inspired by the amazing Brass Band arrangement by Howard Snell which introduced me to this piece. I have had the pleasure of hearing the Cory Band playing this piece at St. David's Hall, Cardiff, and as usual Cory knocked it out of the park!
This also marks the move to the MacBook ready for university. With this comes a new DAW, Logic. This was a little bit of a trial by fire, but I have certainly managed to get to grips with the software. I am also grateful for the amazing quality of the included sounds, including the Organ, which is used here.
For the "Choirs", I chose to use the softer tones of the flugelhorn and trombones. This was partly inspired by a piece I recently played in the National Youth Brass Band of Wales, Philip Harper's arrangement of Lullaby (Goodnight my Angel) by Billy Joel.
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Composed by Richard, arranged by Tomos Haine
Played by Tomos Haine
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Played by:
10 Solo Trumpets (split into 3 groups (3,3,4))
2 TTBB "Choirs" (Flugelhorn & 3 'Trombones' (Trumpet digitally pitch-shifted down an octave))
SSAA "Choir" (All Flugelhorns)
Eb Soprano Cornet
3 Bb Cornet
(Tutti) Flugelhorn
2 Eb Tenor Horns
3 (Tutti) 'Trombones' (Trumpets digitally pitch-shifted down an octave)
'Euphonium' (Flugelhorn digitally pitch-shifted down an octave)
'Tuba' (Flugelhorn digitally pitch-shifted down 2 octaves)
Piano
Organ (patch from Logic)
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