Dave Werden, Euphonium - Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata, 1
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
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Originally written for an instrument called the Arpeggione (like a fretted cello), Schubert's beautiful Sonata works very well for wind instruments. This arrangement is written by the performer, David Werden, for euphonium and piano. The performance is from a live recital tour of Japan in 1989.
A graduate of The University of Iowa, Mr. Werden was the euphonium soloist with The United States Coast Guard Band for more than 20 years. He has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, England, Japan, and the former Soviet Union. Through FM and TV broadcasts, his solos have been heard in dozens of countries around the world. He is a recitalist and clinician, and has performed at local, national, and international symposiums. He was a member of The USCG Band Euphonium/Tuba Quartet, the Atlantic Tuba Quartet, and the Classic Brass Band. He previously taught at the University of Connecticut and is listed in Marquis' Who's Who in American Education.
His efforts to expand the role and recognition of the euphonium led the British magazine Sounding Brass in conjunction with the American publication Euphonia to name him "Euphonium Player of the Year" in 1980. He is the first American awarded this honor. In 1981 he was elected to the post of Euphonium Coordinator for the International Tuba-Euphonium Association (formerly called Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association: T.U.B.A). In 1987 he was appointed to the Honory Board of Advisors of ITEA. His many solo performances and his efforts to expand the role of the euphonium in music earned him the prestigious Coast Guard Commendation Medal. He has also been awarded two Coast Guard Achievement Medals, the Coast Guard Special Operations ribbon, two Coast Guard Unit Commendations, and three Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendations. In 1993 he was inducted into the Pi Kappa Lambda honors society.
He has published articles in Euphonia magazine, The Instrumentalist magazine and the T.U.B.A. Journal. He is the author of The Blaikley Compensating System, Scoring for Euphonium, co-author with Denis Winter of the Euphonium Music Guide, and a co-author of the Brass Player's Cookbook. He compiled and edited a series of papers by Arthur Lehman into the book The Brass Musician. He has also published over four dozen arrangements for a variety of solo instruments and ensembles. His website, www.dwerden.com/, has become a favorite of euphonium players everywhere.
Since moving to Minnesota he has performed with Symphonia (America's Premier Large Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble), the Minnesota Orchestra, the Sheldon Theater Brass Band, was a special guest artist at the International Euphonium Institute, and has been heard on live national broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion.
I listen to this at least once a month. This piece has it all. Just great music on top extraordinary dynamics, and phrasing…and then there is the mechanics that becomes invisible to the music. Wow!
Mostly practice! But practice all your scales, up and down, tongued and slurred, soft and loud. It's more than just playing the notes - they have to be played musically. Getting good at various scales, articulations, and dynamics will help give you the foundation you need. Pieces like this call upon skills you develop gradually and holistically. The end goal is to practice hard to make it sound easy!
Spittin facts
What I really envy his how he's able to hit all of those high notes with such grace, speed, and smoothness.
Wow - that made my day - thanks for the nice remarks! And congratulations on learning euphonium at 65. It's good to always keep learning!
The high concert C at the end was so beautiful
Thanks!
Euphonium player here!Absolutely beautiful rendition of piece. Quite difficult .
My euphonium idol!
this!!
this is my solo this year. lots of fun to play!!
Good for you! That is NOT an easy solo!
@@dwerden it’s not easy at all! i’m only a junior in high school and i chose this solo, i can play all of it now, no where near perfect but i can play ut
Amazing performance! You are my idol. I wish to become like you some day and play with such finesse!
I tried to play along to this and got destroyed. Time to practice
Yeah, it does take a bit of practice, but it's worth the effort!
Me when i try to play along to classical music pieces. I play flute and trying to play along to Galway makes me wanna explode...
@@dwerden where can I find the 2nd and 3rd movements I got the first but I can't find the rest
@@enma6353 Here is the entire sonata: ua-cam.com/video/tfwcwNHGYEc/v-deo.html
I have the bassoon version to this arrangement. It’s very challenging, I’ve been trying for years to get this under my fingers.
I could fall asleep to this, astonishingly beautiful
Actually the string players should listen to your rendition! This from a former concertmaster of the Hamburg Philharmonis (that's Hamburg Germany!) and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. I started playing the Euphonum at 65 and am still going strong. Thanks Dave!
I'm an incoming college freshman majoring in music performance, and I just want you to know that it's a HUGE help being able to hear this kind of sound. It gives me an image in my head to strive for.
That was amazing.
Thanks for the nice comments! I'm glad you are working on the piece. It is challenging, but you can learn a lot by working on it and listening to string players perform it. Have fun!
How beautiful !!! 🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Thank you !!
Thanks for the comments! FYI, I am currently working on a saxophone version, which I hope to finish some time this year.
Magnificent! I played (notice past tense) baritone and euphonium but never acquired anything close to your skill. Fabulous job.Your musicianship and the range made this incredibly captivating to listen to.
Bravo! This works remarkably well. You sound terrific.
This is absolutely amazing. I play euphonium for concert band in high school. I hope I can reach your range someday (I can only play up to a high G.)
Have you seen my video on building high range? It might be helpful: ua-cam.com/video/VTJ4Gb9aBTE/v-deo.html
Sounds really beautiful!
What a great piece and fantastic arrangement! Beautifully done.
Doing this for my audition into band for high school next year. Very difficult, but fun! You play it beautifully
Incredible performance!
Beautiful!
今度この曲を是非やってみよう！
I am a university music major on euphonium, this looks like a fun piece!I will have to get the score for this, amazing sound man!
I love that you included the sheet music!!!!!! THANKYOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!
A petal c would be good for the last note but I fell in love with it overall.
this man is making real music. many brass players out there just do a show off of their techniques
Can't wait to play this for Solo & Ensemble competition!
I play Saxophone, and just listening to you play this makes me want to transpose your arrangement and practice it on saxophone. This is absolutely amazing! Keep up the great work!!!
hey Dave! I'm a new member on the dwerden forums. Thanks for helping out the community!
Marvellous! And thanks for posting the score too. I enjoyed following it.
i'm gonna buy this. It really exploits the euphonium well.
That was so good.
Beautiful
🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍😌😌😌
At 2:00 it sounds like two euphoniums are playing, incredible
Can truley say I am glad I was surfing through youtube once. Found this amazing piece. Very impressed with the recording. I can also say I have a second piece to put on my second recital. Cannot wait to get my hands on it. :D
Thanks David, I now know where to get some great music and recordings.
Absolutely perfect! ♪
@kalofimi The beginning of the video lists the publisher and if you look at the full description I have on the video's page you will find a link to take you directly to the sheet music. Hope you enjoy it! Dave
Thank you so much for the part!!!!!!!!!!!
i am completely ecstatic!!!! OMFG
very nice Mr. Werden, I started to learn this becouse of you
greetings from hungary
This is my 2nd piece of my three solo summer project. Senior year in high school, it's time for some fun stuff. The range is not too hard. (my range is from pedal b to triple high f) The hard part is adding emotion with out getting carried away. In music like this, my emotions get the best of me and i tend to do my own thing with the rhythms.
Fantastic!
Outstanding, loved it!
Yes! You would order the euphonium version, which comes with a treble clef part. The range should work fine - I think there are couple notes too low for flugel to play easily, but there are 8va options. Let me know how it goes!
Amazing!
Excellent!
Just go to Cimarron Music (Google will find it for you) and you can buy the sheet music there. It is not available for free in a PDF - it took me nearly a year to do the arrangement and it took Cimarron many hours to get it all typeset. But I think you'll enjoy working it up once you get it!
I loved this, thanks.
wow, what a performance!! This must have cost a lot of studywork!
Yea this guy is definitely a pro. Envy consumes me.
Good luck with the competition!
I've taken up the euphonium at age 60. Might take me a while to get to this level though.
There's something I don't understand here. When I played euphonium in high school, we would warm up by playing the F-major scale. (On a bass clef, it goes from the fourth line to the first space below the staff.) That last F note was the lowest note I could play; I tried to go lower sometimes, but couldn't do it well. But I saw a small bit of this score that goes well below that note. How is that possible?
You would need a 4th valve to play correctly in that low range. 4 is the same as 13, so you can add 1, 2, and/or 3 while holding down 4.
Stunning!
:-)
Man I wish I could play that high!
Great performance!!! I have a question if you can answer I'll be grateful: Why do you play the music from 7:00 to 7:10 an octave lower than written? Thanks.
Woooow
at 5:15 there's two low B natural notes under the staff. unless if they had a 5th valve or if they were liping down/up, how is a euphonium player supposed to play that?
+Aaron Wallace Most professional euphoniums have a compensating system that lets you play low B. If you don't have that, you can move some of the notes up an octave, like the D dotted quarter through the D in the triplet. Learn more about the compensating system here:
www.dwerden.com/eu-articles-comp.cfm
Although I do know compensating euphoniums can play low notes better, I've never been told that a compensating euphonium can play a low B natural. I'm getting one for my birthday, a Silver Besson sovereign. How do you play the low note?
+Aaron Wallace If you follow the link I included in my previous comment, you'll find a complete explanation of the system, including the fingerings. You might want to choose the interactive demo linked near the top of that page (it's a little less dry!).
Whoopsadaisy, I did not see that at first. Thank you
Im bearly 13 now and I've played baritone for about 6 years...someday I want to play high notes and fast pieces as that one
聞いたことある！
Hummel bassoon concerto works very well. This sounds really fun to play but I would have used different phrasing. Most beautiful brass instrument. wish I'd ha it as a kid.
Agreed on the Hummel! One of these days, maybe. As for phrasing, I'd do it a little differently today. This recording was made before I spent a semester in grad school studying with a cellist.
@@dwerden phrasing changes with new insights and development and a bit on repertoire breadth. If you have large Mozart repertoire and good Mozart technique, you come into other things differently as a result of the foundation built. I always regret the loss of my instruments. Life destroys most everything.
A ruler that once was.
What euphonium is it you are using in this? Brand and make/model?
This is from around 1989, so that would have been a Sterling (pre-Virtuoso) with a Wick 4BL. My normal mouthpiece then (and now) is the 4AL, but I resorted to the BL's shallower cup to help with high range and endurance. The downside is that my tone is brighter with the BL.
... brighter with the AL
That looks super hard
The high notes sound so easy to reach but my range right now is limited. I can go up to a high Ab three ledger lines above the staff, but only for a few seconds. All that means is that I need to practice more 🙃
Thank you! Perhaps this practice technique would help you: www.dwerden.com/forum/showthread.php/12625-Building-Strength-and-High-Range
i’m trying to find the piano part to this on youtube but i can’t find it in this key
A standard piano part is the wrong key (as you found out) AND does not have the parts where I put the solo in the piano to provide a little rest. You can buy my version in printed form or download it here:
www.cimarronmusic.com/arpeggione-7334
It's like Arpeggione was written for eupho ;)
Yep, I'll keep the tough pieces for good old Dave, I'll play the ones with lots of whole notes.
@Jascrod Good going! This is a tough solo.
音を出す時どのようなイメージをしていますか。
I can barely hit the A above high f... Then again I've only been playing for two years, but still a very nice piece
Tommy Brennan Do long tones with high notes. Thats what helps me with my range.
Amigo, gostei muito de seus vídeos. Estou a algum tempo estudando Euphonium, porem tenho extrema dificuldade com notas agudas. Tem alguma dica, além de estudar muito! algo que ajude, bocal
how do you do turns on a euphonium
There is a great section in the Arban Complete Conservatory Method about turns. He explains them very clearly and gives you practice aids. www.sheetmusicplus.com/search?Ntt=arban+complete+conservatory+method&aff_id=15680
Whats up with people by the name of David playing that high C so well?
0:30
Anyone still here in 2024?
Letter K is the most difficult part. How does one play that at the required tempo?
Starting at the 5th measure I take it down an octave, which helps. Otherwise, it's just plain old practice!
@@dwerden Guess I'll have to work on my lip flexibility then. A lot of it is needed even at the lower octave.
can a 4 valve flugelhorn play this too?
Does anyone know who is accompanying him?
That's a hard question to answer in 500 characters! I recommend you go to my site and look around the blog and forum. I've addressed it there, especially on the forum. Can't give you the address in a response (UA-cam doesn't allow it) so go to dwerden dot com and click on the forum button.
how high does this piece go as I can't read bass cleff and I struggle with the high registers.
+SENUEL gamer In treble clef, a D above the staff would be good to have. In a piece like this you are free to move some phrases down an octave, so that would be an option for you as well. The part does come in treble, too.
@pokemonfan12836 Yes, I wrote a version for tuba. If you go to my web site (dwerden dot com) and look at the top menu, then go to tuba>>music>>solo, piano you should see it there. It works nicely on tuba!
And from 7:38 to 7:45?
There were a great many options when I was arranging this. And other instruments (even other stringed instruments) often move octaves around to suit the instrument. At 7:00 I went down to make it more secure. It was a very, very long recital, it playing those figures up an octave was too taxing. at 7:38, that was to make it more like the original (but I chose not to write it there to make it easier for non-professional euphonium instruments). Feel free to experiment yourself if you play it!
David Werden I think this is brilliant. I have arranged a short piece of Beethoven cello music (WoO 46) for baritone (and it'd work well on Euph too) but a large scale sonata like this is a really different kettle of fish. It's not an easy piece on the viola either. Well played sir. :-)
The 24 people that didn't like were probably cornets that wanted the melody/solo with their Gigantic egos 😂
この曲ソロコンでやってみたいです。
Here you go! www.sheetmusicplus.com/search?Ntt=David+Werden+arpeggione+euphonium&aff_id=15680
Where can I find the sheet music to print? (For Bass Clef)
I changed the link in the description so it includes both printed and PDF versions. And it comes with both treble and bass clef solo parts.
David Werden Thank you.
I wouldn't have believed it. Put me down for a "like".
8:55 - 9:10
and i thought i was good for a 7th grader who can only play up to a high E
Patience! In 7th and 8th grade I remember struggling greatly to get a G in the Sound of Music arrangement we played in band.
:)
Every time I see/hear someone play this great I just wish I could play that great! I just don't know how to do anything to make my self better! I can hardly make a high d even with a 6 1/2 al-s mouth piece and my tone is still pretty bad :( someone help lol!!!!
Use a 5G as a mouth piece for startes, "6 1/2 AL" is for beginner band/6th grade
Idk i use a 6 1/2 Al and i can hit triple F
Evan Cote Do long tones.
wat level is this
I would say Grade 5 on the U.S. scale (1-6).
@cameronus7 Most likely not. He has obligations.
+carlos flores cant spell aswell
4 1/2 above bar line. No thank you
It's a workout! But some of the modern euphonium works are just as tough. I classify this as a grade 5-6 on a 6-point scale