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The Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra is the second composition I have written inspired by Harri Lidsle’s virtuoso tuba playing. The first was a Sonata for Tuba and Piano, premiered at the Lieksa Brass Week last year.In the Concerto which has its first performance at today’s concert the tuba remains for a long time in its most singing and technically comfortable register. This is the case as well in the first movement that exposes the most important melodic material of the concerto as in the rapid and sizzling music of the second movement. The third movement is a slow and meditative duet between the oboe and the tuba, and the whole movement is scored only for tuba, oboe, strings and a tubular bell in g1 ringing silently in the horizon of the sound landscape. At the end of this movement the tuba sinks into its deepist register where it remains through the beginning of the fourth movement (here it sais in the score that it is a ‘Russian melody’) till the beginning of the cadenza. The cadenza develops the motivic material of the concerto and ends with one of the central motifs — in the highest register of the tuba. The orchestra joins this motif and the concerto ends with an extended, full-bodied version of the melody that was presented at the beginning of the first movement.© Harri Wessman, 1996(Lieksa Brass Week)(for the premiere of the work, July 25, 1996)Konsertto tuuballe ja orkesterille on järjestyksessä toinen sävellys, jonka olen kirjoittanut Harri Lidslen tuubataituruuden innoittamana – edellinen oli viime kesänä Lieksan vaskiviikolla kantaesityksensä saanut Sonaatti tuuballe ja pianolle.Nyt kantaesitettävässä konsertossa tuuba saa pääasiassa viihtyä laulavimmassa ja ketterimmässä rekisterissään. Näin on sekä konserton melodiset pääainekset esittelevässä ensimmäisessä osassa että taiturillisen sähäkässä toisessa osassa. Kolmas osa on oboen ja tuuban mietteliään melodinen vuoropuhelu. Se on orkestroitu vain tuuballe, oboelle, jousille sekä yhdelle putkikellolle, joka soittaa äänimaiseman horisontissa hiljaisen itsepintaisesti yksiviivaista g:tä. Osan lopussa tuuba vajoaa matalimpaan rekisteriinsä, jossa se pysyttelee pitkän tovin: neljännen osan alun läpi (tässä on partituuriin merkitty, että kyseessä on ’venäläinen melodia’) kadenssin alkuun, mistä se kadenssin aikana kohoaa julistaakseen rekisterinsä korkeimmilla sävelillä konserton keskeisintä melodista aihetta, johon orkesteri tarttuu. Konsertto päättyy laajennettuun, pateettiseen versioon melodiasta, joka esiteltiin ensimmaisessä osassa.© Harri Wessman, 1996(Lieksan Vaskiviikko)(kommentti teoksen kantaesitykseen 25.7.1996)

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Abbreviation	Instrument
Woodwind
acl	alto clarinet
afl	alto flute
arec	alto recorder
asax	alto saxophone
barsax	baritone saxophone
barhn	baritone horn
bcl	bass clarinet
bfl	bass flute
bob	bass oboe
bsax	bass saxophone
bsn	bassoon
cbsn	contrabassoon
cl	clarinet
ehn	English horn
fl	flute
hn	French horn
ob	oboe
pic	piccolo
rec	recorder
sax	saxophone
srec	soprano recorder
ssax	soprano saxophone
trec	tenor recorder
tsax	tenor saxophone
Brass
ahn	alto horn
atrb	altotrombone
barhn	baritone horn
btrb	bass trombone
cornet	cornet
euph	euphonium
fhn	flugelhorn
hn	French horn
tba	tuuba
thn	tenor horn
trb	trombone
trp	trumpet
Percussion
dr	drums
glock	glockenspiel
mar	marimba
perc	percussion
timp	timpani
vibr	vibraphone
xyl	xylophone
Strings
db	double bass
gamba	viola da gamba
str	strings
vla	viola
vlc	cello
vln	violin
Other
acc	accordion
cel	celesta
cemb	harpsichord
chords	chords
elbas	electric bass
elg	electric guitar
elorg	electric organ
elpno	electric piano
guit	guitar
harm	harmonium
hca	harmonica
hp	harp
instr	instrument
kantele	kantele
keyb	keyboard
live electr	live electronics
mand	mandolin
mel	melody
org	organ
pno	piano
synth	synthesizer
tape	tape
Vocal
alto	alto
baryt	baritone
basso	bass voice
ch	choir
chc	childrens choir
chf	female choir
chm	male choir
chx	mixed choir
cten	countertenor
mezzo	mezzo-soprano
sopr	soprano
speaker	speaker
ten	tenor
voc	vocal

Symphony orchestra
2222 4331 11 1, str = 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 French horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, one other percussionist, harp and strings
Wind band
2252 3 423 21212 3 = 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 5 clarinets, 2 bassoons - 3 saxophones - 4 French horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones - 2 cornets, alto horn, 2 tenor horns, baritone horn, 2 tubas - 3 percussionists
Big band
221 4 4, pno, guit, db, dr = 2 alto saxophones, 2 tenor saxophones, baritone saxophone, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, piano, guitar, double bass, drums
Additional codes
+	fl+pic = flutist doubles on piccolo
/	pno/org = can be played on either piano or organ
lib	ad libitum
obl	obligato
str	str: 65432 = specified number of string players
str min	str min: 65432 = at least 65432
str max	str max: 65432 = not more than 65432
solo	vln solo = violin is the solo instrument in a work not obviously for solo violin