Description
The Complete Recordings of Paul Droste is a 2-disc CD collection that EVERY euphonium player should have on their shelf. Paul Droste was one of the first euphonium players EVER to be recorded, and produced two excellent LP recordings in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. There was no artificial acoustics, no digital editing – these were recorded the old fashioned way… playing it correctly in one take.
Potenza Music has taken a step into the future here by preserving the past. They took the reel tapes from his sessions and using cutting-edge technology have remastered the entire collection. Included also for the first time are two live performances of Paul Droste with the Ohio State University Orchestra and Concert Band.
These recordings are a piece of history that everyone should listen to – to celebrate where the euphonium is going, but more importantly where it came from.
Disc 1: Euphonium Solos
- Aria con Variazioni – G. G. Handel/arr. R. Bernard Fitzgerald
- Way-Out, But Not Too Far – Robert McBride
- Fantasie Concertante – Jaques Castérède
- Romanza from Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra – Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102: I. With Humor – Robert Schumann/arr. Paul Droste
- Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102: II. Slow – Robert Schumann/arr. Paul Droste
- Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102: III. Not Fast, but Freely – Robert Schumann/arr. Paul Droste
- Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102: IV. Not too Fast – Robert Schumann/arr. Paul Droste
- Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102: V. Intense and Marked – Robert Schumann/arr. Paul Droste
- Suite for Euphonium and Small Orchestra: Allegro moderato – David L. Martin
- Suite for Euphonium and Small Orchestra: Moderato – David L. Martin
- Suite for Euphonium and Small Orchestra: Molto Allegro – David L. Martin
Disc 2: Euphonium Favorites for Recital and Contest
- Six Studies in English Folk Song: I. Adagio (Lovely On the Water – The Springtime of the Year) – Ralph Vaughan Williams/arr. Paul Droste
- Six Studies in English Folk Song: II. Andante sostenuto (Spurn Point) – Ralph Vaughan Williams/arr. Paul Droste
- Six Studies in English Folk Song: III. Larghetto (Van Dieman’s Land) – Ralph Vaughan Williams/arr. Paul Droste
- Six Studies in English Folk Song: IV. Lento (She Borrowed Some of Her Mother’s Gold) – Ralph Vaughan Williams/arr. Paul Droste
- Six Studies in English Folk Song: V. Andante tranquillo (The Lady and the Dragon) – Ralph Vaughan Williams/arr. Paul Droste
- Six Studies in English Folk Song: VI. Allegro vivace (As I Walked Over London Bridge) – Ralph Vaughan Williams/arr. Paul Droste
- Divertimento No. 70: I. Scherzo – Franz Joseph Haydn/arr. Paul Droste
- Divertimento No. 70: II. Andante – Franz Joseph Haydn/arr. Paul Droste
- Divertimento No. 70: III. Menuet – Franz Joseph Haydn/arr. Paul Droste
- Meditation and Celebration – William P. Dougherty
- Panis Angelicus – Cesar Franck/arr. Henry Charles Smith
- Blue Bells of Scotland – Arthur Pryor
- Bivalve Suite: I. Allegro moderato – Walter S. Hartley
- Bivalve Suite: II. Lento – Walter S. Hartley
- Bivalve Suite: III. Presto – Walter S. Hartley
- Mirror Lake: Serenade – Edward Montgomery
- Mirror Lake: Festival – Edward Montgomery
