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Tubaist Ralph Hepola is heard on forty-six recordings, many reissues and forty-three video productions.
The tuba is one of the most powerful and prominent instruments in the symphony orchestra. Ralph has played on outstanding classical recordings as well as four recordings by his traditional and contemporary jazz groups. This page includes some of those recordings. Click on an album cover to read about it.
Selected Ralph Hepola Discography:

Ralph Hepola – Tuba and Heptones blues, fusion, instrumental rock, contemporary jazz and classical music

Route 3 – An American Musical Journey popular American music and traditional jazz

Route 3 / HepTones both groups

BRITISH COMPOSERS – A CELEBRATION on the major label EMI Classics / Warner Classics

The world premiere recording of Kurt Weill’s Die Buergschaft with Spoleto Festival USA on the major label EMI

New York composer Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath

40 MOST BEAUTIFUL LOVE THEMES on the major label Warner Classics

The production of Silent Night for which composer Kevin Puts was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music

The Minnesota Orchestra Stravinsky Rite of Spring which was a 1997 Grammy Award Nominee for Best Engineered Classical Recording, and when re-issued on vinyl garnered the 2016 Rocky Mountain International Hi Fi Press Award for Best Audiophile Recording – Analogue

The recording and video of A Year with Frog and Toad from The Children’s Theatre in Minneapolis – “the country’s largest theatre for children and their families” which received three 2003 Tony Award nominations for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score. The Children’s Theatre won the 2003 Regional Theatre Tony Award.

BRITISH COMPOSERS – ETHEL SMYTH on the major label EMI

Dominick Argento’s Te Deum – one of five nominees in the 34th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Composition

Libby Larsen’s Coming Forth Into Day Choral Symphony which made her a 1987 Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Ralph Hepola – Tuba
Spectrum Recordings 180820
Route 3 / HepTones
Spectrum Recordings CD 183820
Ralph Hepola – Heptones
Spectrum Recordings CD 190101
111 BALLET MASTERPIECES
Menuetto Classics Album Code: cwa07445
MYTHOLOGY IN CLASSICAL MUSIC
Menuetto Classics Album Code: cwa07379
EPIC CLASSICAL MUSIC
Menuetto Classics Album Code: cwa07228
THE GREAT RUSSIAN COMPOSERS
Menuetto Classics Album Code: cwa07196
20 BASICS, 20TH CENTURY
Menuetto Classics Album Code: cwa05610
IGOR STRAVINSKY ESSENTIAL WORKS
Menuetto Classics Album Code: cwa05568
STRAVINSKY the rite of spring – le sacre du printemps
Reference Recordings Reference Mastercuts LP RM-1515
British Composers: A Celebration
EMI Classics / Warner Classics 50999 0 95480 2 2
A Year With FROG and TOAD ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING
The Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis Minnesota
Kurt Weill – Die Buergschaft
EMI Classics 7243 5 56976 2 (2 compact discs)
Kurt Weill – Die Buergschaft
EMI Classics 7243 5 56976 2 (2 compact discs) with a revised album cover
Richard Strauss
Virgin Classics Veritas 61460
bandworks V
Neil A. Kjos Music Company NN9710B
Amy Grant – Music of the Spirit
A.G. Productions AGP 5194 Limited Collector's Edition
STRAVINSKY – The Rite of Spring
Vox Box CD3X 3016 (3 compact discs)
Ethel Smyth – Mass in D
Virgin Classics VC 7 91188-2 261 254
An Alpine Symphony – Richard Strauss
Virgin Classics VC 7 91102-2 260 422-231
Ceremonies – The United States Army Band of Washington, D.C.
The United States Army Band of Washington D.C. - S19732