Orchestral excerpts for early 'Wiener' tuba

Current research suggests that instrument used at the Bayreuth premiere of Der Ring des Nieblungen in 1876 by Otto Waldemar Brucks was a tuba in F, built by Paulus in Berlin. This instrument was soon replaced by a similar tuba built by Uhlmann in Vienna in 1875, bought by the Hofopernorchester in 1885, and similar instruments were used for other Austro-Germanic works premiered in this period. This instrument has become known as a ‘Wiener’ tuba. The instrument used for recordings of these excerpts of music from Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss was built by Peter Emanuel Schmidt in Copenhagen in around 1880.

0:00 Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold (1869 / 1876)
1:18 Richard Wagner: Die Walküre (1870 / 1876)
1:59 Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 (1877)
2:46 Johannes Brahms: Akademische Festouvertüre (1881)
3:33 Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (1884)
5:39 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (1889)
6:51 Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung (1890)
8:25 Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (1892)

Recorded in Berlin in May 2021, with the kind permission of Jake Klein

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