In the LP era, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat and the Trumpet Concerto in E major of Johann Nepomuk Hummel could fill out a single album as a mutually informative and enjoyable pair. The pesky extra half hour available on a CD presents a problem, for Classical-era works for trumpet and orchestra are sparse. Various solutions have been tried, but the one on this disc is unique: to the Haydn and Hummel concertos are added a pair of trombone concertos -- a rarer thing all around. The Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra of ...
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In the LP era, Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat and the Trumpet Concerto in E major of Johann Nepomuk Hummel could fill out a single album as a mutually informative and enjoyable pair. The pesky extra half hour available on a CD presents a problem, for Classical-era works for trumpet and orchestra are sparse. Various solutions have been tried, but the one on this disc is unique: to the Haydn and Hummel concertos are added a pair of trombone concertos -- a rarer thing all around. The Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra of Viennese composer Georg Christoph Wagenseil comes from the generation before Haydn and Mozart, while the Concertino for Trombone and Orchestra, Op. 4, of Ferdinand David, one of the nineteenth century's great violinists, was written in 1830. The total package is satisfying. The David work is a fine addition to the growing body of rediscovered and worthwhile early Romantic instrumental music; it offers a fair guess at what a Beethoven trombone concerto might have sounded like had he...
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