Album description
1 audio disc : digital ; 12 cm.GM Recordings: GM2004CD.
Harvey Phillips, tuba ; members of the New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra ; Gunther Schuller, conductor (1st-2nd works) ; Robert Gladstone, Frederick Zimmerman [i.e. Zimmermann], Orin O’Brien, Alvin Brehm, double basses (3rd work).
Recorded January 1975 (1st-2nd works) and July 1959 (3rd work).
Previously released on analog disc as: GM Recordings: GM 2004, p1984.
Editions recorded: Oxford University Press (1st work); Mentor Music (2nd work); Aldo Bruzzichelli, U.S. representative, Margun Music (3rd work).
Program notes on container.
Contents: Concerto for bass tuba and orchestra in F minor (1954) / Ralph Vaughan Williams (13:17) -- Capriccio for tuba and orchestra (1960) / Gunther Schuller (10:16) -- Quartet for double basses (1947) / Gunther Schuller (16:40).
I. Schuller, Gunther, 1925-2015. Quartets, double basses (4).
Reviews
- 1. New Records: 8, 1985, p.5.
- 2. International Society of Bassists, vol. 11 #1 (Fall 1984), 41. New release. (No review)
Genre
| 1. | String quartets (Double basses (4)) |
Performers
| 1. | Brehm, Alvin, 1925-2014 |
| 2. | Gladstone, Robert, 1928-2002 |
| 3. | O’Brien, Orin, 1935- |
| 4. | Zimmermann, Frederick, 1906-1967 |
Uniform Titles
| 1. | Quartets, double basses (4) |