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2 trumpets and orchestra or piano Exact instrumentation: 1.1.1.1.- 0.1.0.0.- pno, drum - strings: set 6.5.5.4.3

In this Concerto, Zdenek Lukas places deft mastery of orchestration at the service of a vivacious creative impulse. Double woodwinds plus piccolo (3-2-2-2), judiciously reduced brasses (4-0-0-0), and...

Inventive, rhythmic and at the very least spicy studies. A challenge for advanced trumpeters.

Shinichi Takata's Sonatine in F major is the earliest piece of original trumpet music ever written by a Japanese composer. The existence of this music has only recently been acknlowedged, and among th...

Shinichi Takata's 'Three pieces for Cornet and Piano' is the oldest known written score for the cornet ever composed by a Japanese. Shinichi wrote the work in 1939, when he was 18 years old, for Fujio...

In Memoriam was composed in 2010 in memory of Gwen Smith, mother of Philip Smith (principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic) and wife of Derek Smith. As an inspiration for this composition I was...

Ludwig van Beethoven was one of my favorite composers since childhood. His destiny touched me deeply: A childhood with a difficult father, the loss of his mother, bad luck with women, progressive deaf...

The Romance for piccolo trumpet and organ is one of the compositions that I have intentionally written in a purely romantic style, according to the wishes of some music lovers. It is a 'salon piece' i...

Gottfried Herrmann was in aIl probability 20 when he wrote this work during his stay in Hannover (1827-1829). We have not been able to discover where or by whom the piece was commissioned, or for whom...

Song for cornet (trumpet, fluegelhorn) and string orchestra was composed in 1972 for Derek Smith, the father of Philip Smith, principal trumpet of the New York Philharmonic. That same year, Richard La...

The Sonatina No. 1 for Trumpet and Piano was composed by Richard Lane in 1961 and was first performed that same year by the 14-year old Gerard Schwarz (formerly co-principal trumpet with the New York...

Richard Lane dedicated with pleasure smaller works to friends or students. All have his caracteristic musical signature, a synthesis between charm and an exceptional sens for melodic and harmonic form...

Loss' is about a person who suffers a devastating loss. The first movement opens with harsh, dissonant chords in the piano, which are quickly replaced by a haunting melodic statement in the right hand...

The concept of a circle suggests a circulating path through the diverse elements of brass playing. The most important elements are air stream, range, attack (I prefer tonguing or articulation), slurs,...