La Tromba

Leopold Mozart, father of the unequalled genius Wolfgang Amadeus, also composed music, but is understandably eclipsed by his son. His trumpet concerto has even been handed down twice, i.e. also as par...

Commissioned by the Festival of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Faz?l Say wrote his Trumpet Concerto for Gábor Boldoczki. Written in the classical three-movement concerto form, the work refers directly...

This piece was written in the wake of the trumpet concerto 'Eirene'. Both pieces were composed by Willi for the trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich who raves about the concerto: 'There is an inexplicable mag...

For many years, the trumpet had played a rather subordinate role in Penderecki's work. In his symphony Seven Gates of Jerusalem, however, the instrument, in the form of the bass trumpet, was given, ap...

The idea of playing two instruments alternately in a single work came from Clark Terry whom I saw in a video. Alongside his virtuosity in alternating between the two instruments, I found the contrast...

This piece, previously considered lost since its first performance, was described thus in reviews of that concert: ... The composition is modern and the humour appears to be that of the composer himse...

The composer Enjott Schneider moves very successfully between music for film and television, on the one hand, and opera, symphony and chamber music, on the other hand. When writing this piece, he was...

This work consists of four short parts of varying character; the string part is very lively despite its simplicity and is given effective highlights by the solo trumpet.

Trumpet solo (C or Bb), flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, bassoon and contrabassoon

Trumpet (C or Bb) and piano

This work explores the mood and events at Jesus' last appearance before his arrest in the garden of Gethsemane. The Gospels say that this incident was fraught, with three occasions of urgent prayer as...

The famous Wunderhorn song 'Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen' by Gustav Mahler forms the musical background of this work commissioned by the trumpet player Griseldis Lichdi.Heucke's one-movement trumpe...

In 2008, at the suggestion of the trumpet player Otto Sauter and in intensive collaboration with him, Mikis Theodorakis composed the four-movement Rhapsody for trumpet and orchestra. The world premier...

In his series of works Colloques, the French organist Jean Guillou composed 'Conversations' since 1956 in which the organ and a solo instrument hold a conversation on the same level. For the tenth wor...

This work explores the mood and events at Jesus' last appearance before his arrest in the garden of Gethsemane. The Gospels say that this incident was fraught, with three occasions of urgent prayer as...

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 8)