SKU: CY.CC3098

ISBN 9790530110751. 8.5 x 11 in inches.

James Haynor's arrangement of Wagner opera highlights for 10-part Brass Choir Timpani and Percussion is a real crackerjack featuring the following selections: 1. Pilgrim's Chorus from Lohengrin 2. Prelude to Act III from Lohengrin 3. Finale from Tristan and Isolde 4. The Flying Dutchman 5. Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral from Lohengrin 6. Ride of the Valkyries This work is for advanced performers and is about 8 minutes in length. Instrumentation is: 4 Trumpets in B-flat, 2 Horns, 3 Trombones, 1 Tuba (or 2 Tubas and 2 Trombones), Timpani and Percussion.

SKU: CY.CC2397

Ralph Sauer has arranged a marvelous song by Wagner called the Arrival of the Black Swans or Ankunft be den schwarzen Schwanen for Trombone and Piano.

Arrival of the Black Swans by Richard Wagner was originally written for solo piano in 1861 and first published in 1897. A somber opening is followed by a moving middle section, reminiscent of passages from Lohengrin.

This song is in Wagner's romantic style and is for moderately advanced performers. Length of the song is about 4.5 minutes & includes Tenor Clef for the Trombone part.

SKU: CY.CC2968

ISBN 9790530057872.

Wagner wrote his opera Götterdämmerung between 1869 and 1874 and is the final work of the tetralogy that he began in 1848....26 years before!
The Funeral Music contains two motives which build towards an incredible climax. This musical eulogy for Wagner's tragic hero is one of the finest in all of the repertoire and is a thrill to perform.
Mr. Sauer has beautifully arranged this 9-minute masterpiece for a large 14-part brass ensemble with Timpani and Percussion appropriate for advanced performers.

SKU: CY.CC2925

ISBN 9790530057445.

Shepherd's Song is heard in the prelude to the Finale, Act 3 of Wagner's great opera, Tristan & Isolde. It is a bleak and doleful lament played mostly unaccompanied by a shepherd boy keeping watch for Isolde's ship to arrive. The melody is later heard throughout scene 1.
Ralph Sauer, has done a beautiful job in arranging this music (originally played offstage on the English Horn) for Tenor Trombone.
It is about 2 1/2 minutes in length and appropriate for advanced performers.

SKU: CY.CC2939

ISBN 9790530057599.

The final opera of Wagner's immense work of genius, his Ring Cycle is Götterdämmerung. The Immolation Scene occurs in the final part of Act 3, where Brunnhilde lights a pyre and the ensuing flames bring down the Hall of the Gods, consuming all within it as the curtain falls.
Randy Malmstrom is never shy about attempting big arrangements and he has once again done a superb job.
For 8-part Trombone Ensemble (octet) of advanced performers and about 3 minutes in length.

SKU: CY.CC2858

* Rienzi is an early opera in five acts first performed in 1842. It was Wagner's first success. The overture is a barnburner with great brass writing.
* Mr. Kempton's exciting arrangement for 4-part Trombone choir of 7 minutes in length is appropriate for advanced performers.
* Listen to Mr. Kempton's Trombone Choir perform his arrangement below.

SKU: CY.CC2484

This collection of orchestral excerpts from Der Ring des Nibelungen by Stephen Fissel represents some of the major portions of this great music that Richard Wagner composed for low brass. The selection of these excerpts comes from Mr. Fissel's own experience in preparing and performing the Ring Cycle with Seattle Opera. In conjunction with Ring performances in Seattle, he and his colleagues would often rehearse these sections and present them in a concert along with commentary to explain their importance, either elucidating a musical aspect or an element of plot narrative, or from the standpoint of the development of the low brass instruments of the orchestra.

For the serious orchestral low brass performer, Mr. Fissel's compilation is a wonderful way to experience the highlights of Wagner's operatic genius embodied in the four Ring Cycle operas: Das Rheingold, Die Walkyrie, Siegfried and Gotterdammerung.

There are 22 major excerpts from the four operas for Bass Trumpet (part supplied for original keys and transposed version in C or may be played by a Tenor Trombone), 2 Tenor Trombones, Bass Trombone, Contrabass Trombone (can be performed on a Bass Trombone as well), Tuba and a coil bound full score.

Included in the 22 excerpt Fissel compilation are the following famous excerpts: Ride of the Walkyrie, Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla, Wotan's Farewell, Dragon Scene from Siegfried, Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried's Funeral Music and Walhalla, Spear and Immolation Scene (finale).