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This past week was my week to become a YouTube star, as in addition to the Konzertstuck from the Southwest Horn Conference my performance of the Bach B-Minor mass from January of 2011 was uploaded to YouTube as well. It is below, with a few more comments to follow. (Direct link to video here).
This was performed as a part of the Arizona Bach Festival. I really enjoyed this event and the opportunity to perform this great work.
For those equipment junkies out there, it was performed on a vintage (1959) Paxman descant. In my opinion a descant is certainly the way to go on this rather than a standard double horn or a triple.
The big challenge of this work is the long wait to play the movement, about an hour with nothing to play. What I did was bring a silent brass mute on stage and play along nearly silently with the choir on several of the movements. I doubt anyone actually noticed but it really helped in keeping things fresh and ready to go.
It is great to now have a couple of quality performances on YouTube that I can point people toward, and I hope to have a few more things out there in the near future.
