CRYSTAL RECORDS  Velvet Brown, Tuba  Recordings

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Velvet Brown is quickly becoming one of the best-known tuba players in the world. A protégé of the legendary Roger Bobo, she is an international soloist and associate professor of tuba and euphonium at Pennsylvania State University.

 

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"...a very good, very inspiring recording." Gene Pokorny, tuba, Chicago Symphony. "This recording signals the arrival of a major new virtuoso in the world of brass performance." Sam Palafian. With Roberto Arosio, piano. 

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Casterede Sonatine:  Mvt.1 Defile  Mvt. 2 Serenade  Mvt. 3 Final   Stevens: Salve Venere, Salve Marte   Handel:  As When The Dove   Koetsier: Concertino  Mvt. 1 Allegro con brio   Mvt. 2 Romanza a Scherzino   Mvt. 3 Rondo Bavarese   Broughton: Sonata  Mvt. 1 Allegro Moderato   Mvt. 2 Aria   Mvt. 3 Allegro Leggero   Clarke: Stars in a Velvety Sky   Four Negro Spirituals  Deep River   The Gospel Train   Sometime I Feel Like a Motherless Child   Joshua Fought the Battle of Jerico

BONUS:  entire spirituals The Gospel Train  Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child   Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jerico


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Velvet Brown, an international soloist, 
"is a very expressive player whose tone is focussed yet robust and lively in all registers." American Record Guide. She teaches at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. 

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Eric  Ewazen Sonata: 
Mvt 1 Andante con moto   Mvt 2 Andante espressivo   Mvt 3 Allegro ritmico     Verne Reynolds  Sonata:  Mvt 1 Moderately fast   Mvt 2 Slow   Mvt 3 Variations     Neal Corwell: 2 AM   Velvet Brown: Te Dago Mi   Faye-Ellen Silverman: Zigzags    Alice Gomez: Bonampak     Henri Tomasi: Danse Sacrée (begins :25)

 

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Exploring the fascinating sounds of tuba with percussion ensemble, this is Velvet Brown's third Crystal CD. She is quickly becoming one of the best-known tuba players in the world. A protégé of the legendary Roger Bobo, she is an international soloist and associate professor of tuba and euphonium at Pennsylvania State University.
            This is a spectacular album with some invigorating sounds. It is rare to hear such fine tuba playing and rarer still to hear the tuba with such stimulating percussion, played by some of the best players anywhere.

“Velvet Brown has established herself as one of the premiere tuba soloists in the world” NACWPI Journal

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Beckel: Concerto  Mvt. 1  Mvt. 2  Mvt. 3: Gomez: Latin Jazz Suite  Guaguanco   Bolero   Mambo-cha   Afro-Cuban   Cubop   Cibulka: Digression Nr. 5  Mvt. 1   Mvt. 2   Mvt. 3    Szentpáli: Dance Movements   Gomez:  High-Life

 

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Description automatically generatedCD696: VELVET BROWN, TUBA. Ron Stabinsky, Piano; Amy Gilreath, Trumpet. UPC 009414769626.  BUY NOW

Barbara York, How Beautiful; Roger Kellaway, Dr. Martin Luther King, In Memoriam;; John Stevens, Monument; Meyer Kupferman, Sound Objects 1-3; Drew Bonner, Naptown.

Velvet Brown is an international soloist, composer/arranger, chamber ensemble performer, recording artist, conductor, orchestral player, and professor. This is her sixth solo CD (four on Crystal Records). She has performed and taught in Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, and North America. She is principal tubist with the New Hampshire Music Festival, and has been principal tuba with the River City Brass, guest principal with the Lahti Philharmonic (Finland), Detroit Symphony, and as substitute principal tubist with the St. Louis Symphony and Fort Wayne Philharmonic. She is Music Professor at Pennsylvania State University and Artist Faculty at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.

“Velvet Brown is one of the best tuba players anywhere.” (Fanfare) a very expressive player whose tone is focused yet robust and lively in all registers.”  (American Record Guide

 

“Fairly specialist fare, you might think; but Velvet Brown is no ordinary tuba player. This is her fourth disc on Crystal Records, and on it she presents a sequence of premiere recordings... This is a fascinating recital showcasing a notable exponent of the tuba, Velvet Brown.” (Fanfare; Colin Clarke)

 

“Repertoire is of absorbing interest...playing of high quality. Virtuoso energy. John Stevens’ tribute to Tommy Johnson – who played the iconic high solos in John Williams’ Jaws – is an aural equivalent of everything that tubas are about: size and gravity and beauty.” (Gramophone: Laurence Vittes)

 

“Velvet Brown has once again created an album that is sure to become a staple of tuba players’ listening libraries. An outstanding collection of music, Brown showcases her versatility as a musician throughout the album, deftly moving from dramatic heartfelt performances to stylistically sensitive jazz to displays of modern techniques...How Beautiful by Barbara York is a moving tribute with great sense of comfort and peace. Brown performs this work exquisitely with an incredible amount of heart and comppassion...Roger Kellaway’s Dr. Martin Luther King is a superb tribute to a great man...Naptown by Drew Bonner highlights Brown’s talent for technique and style...It is a tremendous encore to a fabulous collection of music.”  ITEA Journal (Dr. Steven Maxwell)

 

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York 
How Beautiful     Kellaway  Dr. Martin Luther King, In Memoriam Part I   Part II   Part III     Stevens  Monument (begin at :32)   Kupferman  Sound Objects  Sound Objects #1   Sound Objects #2   Sound Objects #3     Bonner  Naptown

 

 

 

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