This new recording - like its
earlier companion CD Portrait of an Artist -
showcases the incredible artistry, musicianship
and teaching of Arnold Jacobs, legendary tubist
of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1944-1988.
This unique audio portrait is comprised entirely
of recordings of Jacobs' voice from master
classes, lectures and interviews, combined with
rare recordings of Jacobs as a soloist, brass
ensemble member with CSO colleagues, and home
practice recordings. The accompanying booklet
discusses the enduring legacy and contributions
that Arnold Jacobs made to the field of brass
teaching and orchestral performance and also
includes a recommended list of recordings with
the Chicago Symphony.
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Legacy
of an Artist, Arnold
Jacobs
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Legacy
of an Artist, Arnold
Jacobs
Edmund Haines - Toccata
Chicago Symphony Brass Quintet - 1966 |
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We are in an
Art Form |
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A. Catozzi - Beelzebub
Gunnison Music Camp Band - 1961 |
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Essential Role of the Tuba |
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Range and Tone |
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Richard Wagner - Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin |
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Ceasar Franck - Symphony in D Minor |
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Air Versus Air Appuratus |
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Jean-Baptiste - Characteristic Etude No 1 |
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Lips are Vocal Chords for the Instrument |
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Jacques-Francois Gallay - Etude Op. 13
No. 12 |
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The Use of Air |
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Ernst Paudert - Etude |
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The Use of Devices |
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Ludwig Van Beethoven - String Quartet Op 18 No 2
IV - Allegro Molto
Chicago Symphony Brass Quintet - 1954 |
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Conditioned Responses, Becoming a
Storyteller of Sound |
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Al Hayes - Solo Pomposo
Bill Bell's German Band - Gunnison, Co
1967 |
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The Art of Communication |
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Victor Ewald - Quintet Op. 5 No. 1
Chicago Symphony Brass Quintet - 1966 |
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Total time of CD - 63:51 |
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Price
$16.98
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ARNOLD JACOBS: Recommended recordings
Portrait
of an Artist/Arnold Jacobs
(vol. 1) Summit Records #267
Chicago Symphony
Orchestra Trombone and Tuba Sections play
Concert Works and Orchestral Excerpts. Educational Brass Recordings
Prokofiev:
Alexander Nevsky.
Chicago Symphony/Reiner. RCA Living Stereo
#63708
Stravinsky: Le
baiser de la fée [The Fairy’s Kiss]
(also includes Prokofiev Lt. Kije Suite)
Chicago Symphony/Reiner. RCA Living Stereo
#61957
Mussorgsky/Ravel:
Pictures at an Exhibition
(also includes Night on Bald Mountain, Marche
slave, etc.) Chicago Symphony/Reiner. RCA
Living Stereo SACD #61394
Franck: Symphony
in d minor.
Chicago
Symphony/Monteux. RCA Living Stereo SACD
#67897
Nielsen: Symphony
No. 4 “Inextinguishable”
(with Sym. 2) Chicago Symphony/Martinon. RCA
Victor Red Seal #76237
Bruckner:
Symphonies 4 “Romantic” and 7.
Chicago Symphony/Barenboim. DGG Double #453100
The Chicago
Recordings (4 CD set).
Chicago Symphony/Giulini. (a feast which
includes Mahler 1, Bruckner 9, Berlioz Romeo &
Juliet, and suites from Firebird and Petrouchka)
EMI Classics #85974
Bartok: Concerto
for Orchestra.
Chicago Symphony/Reiner. RCA Living Stereo
SACD #61390
[UPDATE] Reiner
conducts Wagner.
Chicago Symphony. Excerpts from Meistersinger
and Götterdämmerung. Out of print on RCA but
now available as an on-demand CD from
Arkivmusic.com in their ArkivCD series. Go to
Arkivmusic.com – look for the ArkivCD tab,
search for Reiner. CD is RCA Victor Red Seal
#4738
DVD: Chicago
Symphony historic telecasts
– Paul Hindemith conducts Konzertmusik for Brass
and Strings, Bruckner 7 (1st mvt),
and Brahms: Academic Festival Overture with the
Chicago Symphony. VAI Video DVD #4237 (also
includes Reiner and Stokowski videos)
The following CDs
are currently out of print but can be found
used, and are well worth the hunt. Hopefully,
they will return to print in the near future:
Berlioz:
Symphonie fantastique and Francs-juges Overture.
Chicago Symphony/Solti. London Jubilee #417
705-2 (was also issued briefly on the Australian
Eloquence Series)
Bruckner:
Symphony No. 5.
(with Schoenberg Variations Op. 31) Chicago
Symphony/Solti. London Jubilee #425 008-2
RECORDINGS
`Portrait of an Artist'; `Legacy of an
Artist'
Arnold Jacobs, tuba; various other musicians
and Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Summit
Records, two separate CDs)
By John von Rhein
Arnold Jacobs served as principal tuba of
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 44 years,
retiring in 1988, 10 years before his death.
Revered as a peerless artist, inspiring
teacher and wise mentor to generations of
orchestral wind and brass players, he was an
integral part of the special tradition of
brass playing that has made the CSO
world-famous. Indeed, it is often said that
with trumpeter Adolph Herseth on the top and
Jacobs at the bottom of the CSO brass choir,
its playing could not have been anything
less than perfect.
Summit has gathered on a pair of discs a
detailed aural biography of Jacobs that pays
loving tribute to a great musician of whom
conductor Josef Krips once exclaimed, "My
God, he plays the tuba like it was a
violin!" The tracks include private
recordings from Jacobs' home studio and tuba
solos from various CSO recordings to chamber
and orchestral works that spotlight Jacobs'
extraordinary musicianship and virtuosity.
These are interspersed with bits of
pedagogical and human wisdom Jacobs passed
on to his many students. ("Become a singer
in your brain" is a typical example.)
Listen to Jacobs playing Richard Strauss'
Horn Concerto No. 1 on the tuba, in a live
1962 performance with wind band
accompaniment, and you would swear no
hornplayer could do it better. Or be
astounded by how brilliantly he could
articulate the manic Gypsy flourishes of
Monti's "Czardas," just like the Heifetzes
to whom Krips compared him. The booklets
include informative essays; a respectful
appreciation by Gene Pokorny, Jacobs'
successor at the CSO; encomia by other
Chicago musicians; a bibliography and
discography. A classy "time capsule" indeed.
I cannot imagine an orchestral musician who
will not learn from and be moved by the
words and wisdom packed onto these CDs, but
there is much here to commend them to
ordinary music lovers as well.
