Alfresco Fanfare - for a brass ensemble

Steinberg Lounge
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I also wrote this piece which could be used to celebrate any event. It’s an orchestral brass based piece.

Hope you enjoy this one too.

Jonathan


https://jonathanmorrison.bandcamp.com/track/al-fresco-fanfare

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Hi Jonathan, I thought that what you wrote here made perfect sense as a fanfare, so well done. I thought the brass sounds didn’t quite cut it, so I’m sure this will sound a whole lot better when those who know about these things advise you! If you had X friends who could play it (is that 6 or 7 parts?), that would also be fabulous! You are a good writer!

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Thanks Leon. Much appreciated. You’re right, I need to find some friends. Those who can play, of course!

Jonathan

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this is better piece than the other one I’ve just listened to but again…it needs some space which will give it atmosphere…where would a piece like this be played and what would it sound like…this space needs adding to the instruments…

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Thanks for all the advice everybody. I must apologise because I’ve always heard the music in my head as I know it could and should sound and I didn’t do anything to reflect that when I first recorded this. I only did it as a record of the basics.

What I have now done is make it more spatially aware. I always intended the 2 trumpet sections to be on either side of a stage with a wide separation, (maybe in an above ground space over looking an audience) with the French Horn joining Trumpet 1 on the left and a Trombone joining Trumpet 2 on the right. A second Trombone and a Tuba would sit in the middle.

Hopefully I’ve created some sense of that with the stereo placement. I have added reverb although it could sound as if it were played in a cathedral at times. I quite like it that way but everyone to their own.

Here it is

https://jonathanmorrison.bandcamp.com/track/al-fresco-fanfare

thank you for listening

Jonathan

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Hi Jonathan, it’s definitely better with the reverb and stereo placement. It doesn’t help a lot of the instrument sounds, which just don’t sound so real to me, especially the trumpets. You’re just going to have to hire some players!

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Yes, it’s time I pay a higher price. Now, to rob a bank!

Jonathan

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Agree that V.2 with the bigger space really makes a huge difference.
It is a great fanfare Jonathan, and as a composition first rate.

I’m less critical of V.2 in terms of “real” sounds, but I do agree that
the patches are not fully authentic.

Glad I’m not in the orchestral domain. :confused:

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Thanks Jet. As always, your ears are superb.

Jonathan