After Baroque: Music for the Natural Trumpet

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The program presented on this disc goes beyond unusual into the territory of the arcane. The natural, or valveless trumpet, was the normal instrument until it was supplanted by the keyed trumpet (in the late eighteenth century) and then the valve trumpet (in the early nineteenth) as it is known today. But the natural trumpet hung on in certain pedagogical quarters, and no less a figure than Brahms wrote the orchestral parts of his symphonies for them. That said, music for an all-trumpet consort is restricted mostly to fanfare-like works. A collection of post-Baroque pieces for a consort of natural trumpets is something that digs pretty far down in the bucket. The music on the disc is a mixed bag, but most of it consists of short fanfares and marches, presumably written for occasional use and reflecting little of the personalities of their individual composers. The Mozart Divertimento for two flutes, two trumpets, and timpani, K. 188, is inauthentic despite its having convinced Köchel; its likely composer was Joseph Starzer, whose Divertimento for the still-stranger combination of two flutes, five trumpets, and timpani is one of the disc's high points. The Wagner and Dvorák pieces included are pretty commonplace, but the latter-day works by Paris Conservatorty professor François Dauvernè and contemporary composer Marti Epstein (a series of short canons for trumpets in different keys) are intriguingly offbeat. The natural trumpet is a difficult instrument, and the players show impressive stamina in producing a consistent sound. The engineering values, however, are subpar, and the booklet, with the name of composer Sigismund Neukomm misspelled in the track list, is a step below that. As a whole the disc is likely to be of interest primarily to trumpeters. ~ James Manheim, All Music Guide

Artist	Seattle Trumpet Consort
Format	CD
Label Name	Origin Classical
Run Time	54:47
Song List	1: Work(s) 2: Marcia für die Arche, for 3 trumpets & timpani in C major, H. 621, Wq. 188 3: Divertimento No. 6 for mixed ensemble in C major, K. 188 (K. 240b) 4: Fanfares (3) for two brass choirs & timpani 5: Premier Suite of Fanfares 6: Heroic Music for six trumpets & timpani 7: Divertimento, for 2 flutes, 5 trumpets & timpani 8: Fanfaren für Signaltrompeten (doubtful) 9: Fanfares (3), for brass ensemble 10: Fanfaren für Signaltrompeten (doubtful) 11: Quartet No. 6, for four trumpets 12: Fanfares for 4 trumpets & timpani, B. 167 13: Fanfaren für Signaltrompeten (doubtful) 14: Canons (2), for Seven Trumpets 15: Fanfare for St. Edmundsbury, for trumpets in multiples of 3
Catalog Number	33001
Composer	1: Mozart, Leopold 2: Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel 3: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 4: Ott, Laurentius Justinianus 5: Gebauer, Michael Joseph 6: Diabelli, Anton 7: Starzer, Joseph 8: Wagner, Richard 9: Neukomm, Sigismund 10: Wagner, Richard 11: Dauverne, Francois Georges Auguste 12: Dvorak, Antonin 13: Wagner, Richard 14: Epstein, Marti 15: Britten, Benjamin
Genre	1: Miscellaneous 2: Band 3: Chamber 4: Chamber 5: Chamber 6: Chamber 7: Chamber 8: Chamber 9: Chamber 10: Chamber 11: Chamber 12: Orchestral 13: Chamber 14: Chamber 15: Chamber
Period	1: Classical (1750-1819) 2: Classical (1750-1819) 3: Classical (1750-1819) 8: Romantic (1820-1869) 10: Romantic (1820-1869) 12: Romantic (1820-1869) 13: Romantic (1820-1869) 15: Modern (1870-)
Times	1: 0:56 2: 2:44 3: 7:59 4: 4:09 5: 5:35 6: 5:46 7: 10:27 8: 0:54 9: 2:44 10: 0:33 11: 3:44 12: 2:03 13: 0:53 14: 3:09 15: 3:11
Written	1: 2: after 1767 3: 1776 4: 5: 6: 7: 8: 9: 10: 11: 12: 1891 04 30 13: 14: 15: 1959

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