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The passsion for exhilarating trumpet sounds swept Europe during the early 18th century, and this cross-section from Italy and Germany reflects that excitement. Vivaldi's magnificent Concerto brings together two virtuoso trumpeters who both compete with and complement one another in a display of brave sounds. A short slow movement affords them a brief rest before the third movement introduces thrilling 'rockets' of trumpet tone, each player striving to attain the most brilliant top C. In church, too, the trumpet enjoyed popularity. Bach's Cantata No 51 for the 15th Sunday after Trinity, was composed in about 1732. A soprano provides the text of joyfulness and the trumpet exults with her in the first movement. Praise continues without trumpet in the Recitative and Aria, as also in the fine Chorale, but in the final Allejuia the trumpet again joins with the soprano in a stirring affirmation of faith. Albinoni's Concerto in F was one of 12 he published in 1722 but the original instrumentation was for two oboes and strings. It is appropriate for a trumpet to take one of the oboe parts, as in this recording, because a trumpet in the key of F, while unusual, was not unheard-of in the early 18th century. Indeed, Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 includes one. Albinoni's Concerto is more modest than Bach's but both are in the form which was quickly gaining acceptance: fast-slow-fast. Alessandro Scarlatti's Cantata again finds soprano and trumpet making an effective duet, and in Vivaidi's B flat Concerto the trumpet replaces an oboe, again quite legitimately. A contemporary of Vivaldi's, Stölzel was admired above Bach in his day and this Concerto, one of several hundred works, shows why. It shares with the Vivaidi and Albinoni concerti the popular, then new, three-movement pattern, while its musical language is much closer to the earlier Baroque style. Robert Dearling. Discontinued |
| Name: Trumpet Concertos & Cantatas | |
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| Composer | Opus | Produced | Music | Key | Performer |
| Albinoni, Tomaso | 1985 | Concerto a cinque for trumpet and oboe | Academy of St. Martin-in-the-fields - Sir Neville Marriner Helen Donath Maurice André Bernhard Soustot Daniel Arrignon Iona Brown | ||
| Bach, Johann Sebastian | 1985 | Cantate No.51 'Jauchzet gott in allen Landen' | |||
| Scarlatti, Alessandro | 1985 | Cantata 'Su le Sponde del Tebro' | |||
| Stölzel, Gottfried Heinrich | 1983 | Trumpet Concerto | D major | ||
| Vivaldi, Antonio | RV.548 | 1985 | Concerto for trumpet and violin | B flat major | |
| Vivaldi, Antonio | RV.537 | 1983 | Concerto for two trumpets | C major |