Famous Trumpet Concertos
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- Composer
- Telemann, Georg Philipp
- Performers
- Capella Istropolitana, Skvor, Petr, Kejmar, Miroslav
- Label
- Naxos
- Barcode
- 4891030502437
Famous Trumpet Concerti Sonata Opus 2 No.11 - Benedetto Marcello (1686 - 1739)Sonata a cinque No.1 - Giuseppe Torelli (1658 - 1709)Concerto in D Major - Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 - 1767)Concerto in D Minor - George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)-(reconstructed by Jean Thilde)Concerto in D Major - Leopold Mozart (1719 - 1787)Concerto in E Flat Major - Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809) The trumpet has had a long and eventful history, in one formor another, whether to alarm the enemy in battle or to rouse the dead at theDay of Judgement. Fifteenth century princes in Europe saw the instrument as oneto boost the importance of a ruler, Matthias Corvinus boasting a band of 24 trumpetsand the Sforzas in Milan 18 and a dozen trumpeters are listed in the Salzburgarchives in the time of Mozart. The Baroque trumpet, for which Torelli and hiscontemporaries wrote, was confined in range to the notes of the harmonicseries, so that lower notes were widely spaced and step-wise melodies were onlypossible at a high register.Where more was required than a mere bugler's summon tothe cook-house a player had to cultivate the difficult and virtuoso art of clarinoplaying, using the upper partials of the series. The technique was developedparticularly at the basilica of San Petronio in Bologna, home of so manydistinguished instrumental players. Here, in the last decade of the seventeenthcentury, Giuseppe Torelli wrote a series of splendid pieces for GiovanniPellegrino Brandi, who was employed for major fest
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