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The whole show today isn’t about trumpets – no, really! But there are a
couple of interesting pieces you may enjoy if your preferences run more
toward the brassy back row of the orchestra.

We’ll hear Neruda’s
time-honored Concerto for Trumpet in a sparkling performance with Alison
Balsom, and, Mahler’s brilliant song, "Where the beautiful trumpets blow". For the grand finale of our 9am hour, it’s Haydn’s "Hornsignal" Symphony #31.

You may extract those earplugs now.

Playlist:
8:08 am
  • Tahiti: Raiatea - Town Square
  • Composer: Michael Torke
  • Ensemble: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic
  • Conductor: Clark Rundell
  • CD/Album: "Tahiti"
  • Record co./Cat #: Ecstatic 92231
8:14 am
  • Blumenstuck in Db , Op. 19
  • Composer: Robert Schumann
  • Soloists: Sviatoslav Richter, piano
  • CD/Album: "Sviatoslav Richter Vol. 4: A Schumann Recital"
  • Record co./Cat #: London 436456
  • Note: (This recording comes from a series of live dates in May/June 1986 in Mantua, Italy)
8:23 am
  • The Veronica (Summer); The Belvedere (Autumn); The Heliotrope (Summer)
  • Composer: James Oswald
  • Ensemble: The Broadside Band
  • Conductor: Jeremy Barlow
  • CD/Album: "Oswald: Airs for the Seasons-The Broadside Band"
  • Record co./Cat #: Dorian 80164
8:34 am
  • Suite "From the Middle Ages"
  • Composer: Alexander Glazunov
  • Ensemble: Scottish National Orchestra
  • Conductor: Neeme Jarvi
  • CD/Album: "Glazunov: From the Middla Ages/Scenes de Ballet - SNO/Jarvi"
  • Record co./Cat #: Chandos 8804
9:02 am
  • Trumpet Concerto in Eb
  • Composer: Johann Baptist Georg Neruda
  • Ensemble: The German Chamber Philharmonic, Bremen
  • Soloists: Alison Balsom, trumpet
  • Conductor: Thomas Klug
  • CD/Album: "Alison Balsom: Trumpet Concertos"
  • Record co./Cat #: EMI 16213
9:17 am
  • Wo Die Schonen Trompeten Blasen
  • Composer: Gustav Mahler
  • Ensemble: Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
  • Soloists: Lucia Popp, soprano ; Andreas Schmidt, bass
  • Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
  • CD/Album: "Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn"
  • Record co./Cat #: Deutsche Grammophon 427302
  • Note: (song, from "The Horn of Youth" cycle: "Where the beautiful trumpets blow")
9:27 am
  • Symphony #31 in D, "Hornsignal"
  • Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn
  • Ensemble: Orchestra of St. Luke's
  • Conductor: Charles Mackerras
  • CD/Album: "Haydn: Symphonies No. 31 & No. 45"
  • Record co./Cat #: Telarc 80156

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