Tin adventure
A series of short solo pieces by Anthony Plog for various brass instruments, which also unfold a lot of humor individually.
Tony Plog is probably one of the best-known contemporary brass composers. His compositional wit (e.g. in the Animal Ditties for trumpet, narrator and piano) is legendary, and many of his works are part of the standard repertoire for brass (Four Sketches for brass quintet, 3 Miniatures for tuba and piano or Postcards for solo trumpet).
With the three- to four-minute solo pieces with piano accompaniment he composed in 2014, which he presented in a kind of suite entitled Adventures in Brass Tony Plog is continuing on the path he has already taken: the very idea of creating a Angular blues with staccato notes for French horn and piano brings a little smile to my face, and when the tuba in its short piece Walking In the beginning, the composer's sense of humor is clearly perceptible and audible as he plays a walking bass in unison with the piano - without any melody.
The six pieces are ideal for advanced music students, make a welcome change, e.g. as competition pieces or are certainly also good encores for recitals. Whether the suite will ever be performed in its entirety is questionable, as it would require six soloists at the same time. The fact that the six pieces were published individually and not as a suite by Editions Bim shows that this was not the composer's intention. Nevertheless, the pieces are linked by an inner concept and, of course, Tony Plog's typical compositional style of creating a whole piece from a small thematic motif.
Anthony Plog, Adventures in Brass:
Musings (trumpet and piano), TP330
Eckig Blues (horn and piano), CO94
Divergent Roads (trombone and piano), TB88
Initiatives (bass trombone and piano), TB89
Walking (tuba and piano), TU 181
Prelude and Tarantella (euphonium and piano), TU182
Fr. 14.00 each, Editions Bim, Vuarmarens 2014
