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Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor
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Bach arr Eric Crees

Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor

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Instrument: mixed brass in 16 parts inc score
Grade: conservatoire
Catalogue No: 9104
ISMN No: 9790570277315

Scored for 5 trumpets (+flugelhorn) • 4 horns • 3 trombones • 3 tubas • timpani

One of Bach's very greatest compositions. Each individual variation is brought to life with extraordinary instrumental colour leading to a magnificent majestic climax.

Recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra Brass, and also recorded by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass.

"Eric Crees is one of the greatest arrangers for brass music in the world. I do many concerts around the world and I always insist on doing Eric's arrangements wherever I go. There simply is no better transcriber for brass than Eric Crees."
Jay Friedman, Principal Trombone, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Conductor

"The three Renaissance pieces by Giovanni Gabrieli [Eric Crees edition] are especially successful…The various voices of Bach's "Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor"[arr. Crees] shine out with absolute clarity in this arrangement that projects the work's contrapuntal complexities with gleaming clarity."
All Music Guide

""The editions are by Gabrieli scholar Eric Crees. Crees also provides the organ-like performing version of the Bach work, an arrangement most notable for its transparency and delicacy, yet with a finale of blazing power.
ArkivMusic.com
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live
Eric Crees
Eric Crees is one of the most distinguished trombonists, arrangers and educators in the UK. He was Co-Principal Trombone in the London Symphony Orchestra for twenty-seven years and from 2000 until 2020 was Section Principal Trombone with the Orchestra of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has played on many of the most iconic film tracks, including the first four 'Star Wars', 'Superman' 1&2, 'Harry Potter' 1,2&3, 'Braveheart', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' and dozens more.

Eric has taught at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London since 1977 and in 2014 was awarded two prestigious honours, Conferment to Professor at the Guildhall and the International Trombone Association's Neil Humfeld Award for Teaching Excellence. He is internationally recognised as a conductor and arranger of brass music at the highest level and has been the Musical Director of London Symphony Orchestra Brass and the Brass Soloists of the Royal Opera House and made seven CDs with them, mainly of his own compositions, arrangements and editions. He is now Artistic Director of his own group, The Symphonic Brass of London and has released two albums with them, 'A Bridge across the Pyrenees' and 'Preludes, Rags and Cakewalks'.


For more information see the two websites: ericcrees.co.uk
thesymphonicbrassoflondon.com
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