Justin Benavidez – Storytellers (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:18:29 minutes | 688 MB | Genre: Classical
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Tuba virtuoso Justin Benavidez is heard in three new tuba concertos, two recent solos, and stunning transcriptions of works by Gustav Mahler and Claude Debussy. Benavidez is currently Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Florida State University and performs as principal tuba of the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra. In the summer he is on the faculty at the Round Top Music Festival in Texas. With his playing noted for it’s “tremendous virtuosity and stylistic versatility,” Benavidez has performed in venues throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He has been featured numerous times on APM’s Performance Today radio program. His debut solo album, Emblems, won Silver Medals in the Classical Album and Instrumental Solo Album categories of the Global Music Awards. The International Tuba Euphonium Association Journal described it as “an impressive and highly entertaining record” on which Benavidez “shreds with enthusiasm, exuberance, and precision.”
Tracklist:
01. Justin Benavidez – Cuong: Tuba Concerto: I. Chaconne (02:00)
02. Justin Benavidez – Cuong: Tuba Concerto: II. Canticle (08:24)
03. Justin Benavidez – Cuong: Tuba Concerto: III. Chaconne (07:05)
04. Justin Benavidez – Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Arr. J. Benavidez for Tuba & Piano): No. 1, When My Beloved Has Her Wedding Day (03:32)
05. Justin Benavidez – Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Arr. J. Benavidez for Tuba & Piano): No. 2, This Morning I Went over the Field (04:12)
06. Justin Benavidez – Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Arr. J. Benavidez for Tuba & Piano): No. 3, I Have a Red-Hot Knife (03:23)
07. Justin Benavidez – Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Arr. J. Benavidez for Tuba & Piano): No. 4, The Two Blue Eyes of My Beloved (04:38)
08. Justin Benavidez – Goodman: Tuba Concerto: I. Introspective (05:56)
09. Justin Benavidez – Goodman: Tuba Concerto: II. Mysterious, Slow & Expressive (04:39)
10. Justin Benavidez – Goodman: Tuba Concerto: III. Fast & Aggressive (04:50)
11. Justin Benavidez – Baadsvik: New Kid (06:46)
12. Justin Benavidez – Debussy: Suite bergamasque, L. 75: I. Prélude (Arr. J. Benavidez for Tuba & Piano) (04:55)
13. Justin Benavidez – Whitacre: Goodnight Moon (Arr. J. Benavidez for Tuba & Piano) (03:51)
14. Justin Benavidez – Vizzutti: Tuba Concerto “Cityscape”: I. Uptown (03:55)
15. Justin Benavidez – Vizzutti: Tuba Concerto “Cityscape”: II. Midtown (03:43)
16. Justin Benavidez – Vizzutti: Tuba Concerto “Cityscape”: III. Downtown (06:33)
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