Bruckner - Ecce Sacerdos Magnus for 10-part Trombone Ensemble Adagio framed by two meditatively yearning

framed by two meditatively yearning pieces (in E and D flat major) and two vividly exuberant ones (similarly in E and D flat major)

Because they were written for a stringed instrument

Sauer does a beautiful job editing the four and a half minute work for advanced performers

#3 in D has been arranged for Brass Quartet by Keith Terrett in the key of F

but in fact it is the male

Bruckner - Ecce Sacerdos Magnus for 10-part Trombone Ensemble Adagio framed by two meditatively yearningBruckner's Ecce Sacerdos Magnus (Behold the Great Priest) comes from the early European tradition of plainchant. Bruckners setting of the responsory, originally scored for eight part mixed Choir, Organ and three Trombones, brings certain medieval qualities to an otherwise Romantic era composition. This transcription for large Trombone ensemble attempts to retain the majesty, power and beauty of the original piece. All of Bruckners phrasing, dynamics,