Posted by Rick Denney on October 14, 2003 at 16:34:22:
In Reply to: Euphonium in Brass Quintets? posted by Meredith on October 14, 2003 at 09:26:12:
The arrangements we are using of the Holst 2nd Suite (Baxter Publishing?) call for all conical instruments: Cornet, Fleugelhorn, F Horn, Euphonium, and Tuba. They sound quite nice.
And I believe that the Canadian Brass recorded their Bach Contrapunctus CD using a euphonium in place of a trombone.
For baroque stuff, you can make your choices as you please, it seems to me. I think the early music when played by a quintet needs a fairly consistent progression of sound from top to bottom to keep contrapunctal music from being full of unfortunate surprises, but this can be achieved with trumpets, horn, euph, and tuba just as easily, if not more easily than with trumpets, horn, trombone, and bass trombone. In the latter, the horn is tonally the odd man out, while in the former, the tone changes, but in a consistent way as it moves down the orchestration.
Rick "who plays an F tuba that be trombone-like when necessary" Denney