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Concerto for trumpet and orchestra was written in 1963 at the request of Anatoly Maximenko, the brilliant solo trumpeter of the orchestra of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR. Later, at t...

Concerto for trumpet and orchestra was written in 1963 at the request of Anatoly Maximenko, the brilliant solo trumpeter of the orchestra of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR. Later, at t...

Musicians throughout their playing life invariably revisit a core of compositions that continually challenge their abilities and nourish their musical ideals. Morning Pages were written with that in m...

Musicians throughout their playing life invariably revisit a core of compositions that continually challenge their abilities and nourish their musical ideals. Morning Pages were written with that in m...

The collection of 12 fantasias for solo violin (TWV 40:14-25) by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1757) was first published in Hamburg in 1735. The Italian influence of the sonata and concerto is clearly...

The collection of 12 fantasias for solo violin (TWV 40:14-25) by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1757) was first published in Hamburg in 1735. The Italian influence of the sonata and concerto is clearly...

Prometheus and the Gift of Fire was commissioned by tubist Roger Bobo, composed in 2009 and premiered by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of trumpet John Aley with the UW-Madison Tuba-Euphoni...

This musical Poem is an epic work with dramatic, mournful cries which Armenian composer Vartan Adjemian wrote in a masterly manner for trumpet and piano. The piano part plays a critical role, creating...

This musical Poem is an epic work with dramatic, mournful cries which Armenian composer Vartan Adjemian wrote in a masterly manner for trumpet and piano. The piano part plays a critical role, creating...

A dark sky, full of clouds. A mighty wind that transforms it. The clouds blow away and the sky is colored blue. The clouds then return and the sky turns dark again. Within this game of light and dark...

A dark sky, full of clouds. A mighty wind that transforms it. The clouds blow away and the sky is colored blue. The clouds then return and the sky turns dark again. Within this game of light and dark...

Jan Krtitel Jiri Neruda - his forenames mean John the Baptist George - received his education in Prague and for a time played the violin in a theater orchestra there, as did his elder brother by about...

Jan Krtitel Jiri Neruda - his forenames mean John the Baptist George - received his education in Prague and for a time played the violin in a theater orchestra there, as did his elder brother by about...

Why not? is an invitation to abandon cultural conformity and pursue less conventional techniques, sounds and expressive resources within a wide dynamic range specifically related to the rich sound pot...

Why not? is an invitation to abandon cultural conformity and pursue less conventional techniques, sounds and expressive resources within a wide dynamic range specifically related to the rich sound pot...

Jewish ritual music, originally ceremonial and religious, became secularized and popularized with the klezmer (yiddish) music used for askhenaze community feasts in central and eastern Europe before e...

Contrasts with its explicit subtitles - I. Polarities, II. Atmospheres III. Motion - is an exciting work that explores the trumpet ensemble resources with aggressive and flashy passages merged with su...

Devil's Dance The inspiration for Jean-François Michel's creation of this highly virtuoso work - peppered with rhythmical traps and perilous intervals - was the diabolic, bewitching, and dazzling effe...

Devil's Dance The inspiration for Jean-François Michel's creation of this highly virtuoso work - peppered with rhythmical traps and perilous intervals - was the diabolic, bewitching, and dazzling effe...

The first movement is called Fantasy, for no particular reason, other than gratitude for being alive! In the second movement, Meditation/Elegy, the slow, 'dirge' theme reflects not only the somber asp...