Reinhold Friedrich - Trumpet Concertos - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In a tent somewhere in Port of Spain, calypso kings of past years gather to exchange extemporaneous lyrical insults, just like a game of ping pong. The result is highly amusing, highly enlightening and highly creative. Those assembled include legendary rivals Lord Melody and Mighty Sparrow, besides King Fighter, King Solomon and Nat-Hepburn with the March of Dimes Quartet. (Be sure to listen to SWF40453 Calypso Awakening from the Emory Cook Collection.)

Andr Bernard - Trumpet Concertos [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/07/1992

The trumpet can be traced back for almost 4000 years in many cultures and more than any other musical instrument it is surrounded by the aura of something special it was the signal giver at ritual, religious, military or royal state occasions. The sound of the trumpet is still ambivalent today even where it presents itself as sweet, it always resonates with a near-death shaking that can also become infernal and violent at any time. This sound remains connected with cosmic, divine or at least princely royal attitude. Reinhold Friedrich is one of the most uncompromising artists in this field. He is one of the world's leading trumpeters - sometimes celebrated in the press as the InchTrumpet GodInch - and impresses with a breathtaking variety of repertoire whether classical valve trumpet, whether the high piccolo trumpet, natural trumpet, historical keyed trumpet, whether with the Jewish shofar or the softer flugelhorn, - his playing always becomes that event which is then able to provoke reactions ranging from goose bumps to a mental flight of fancy. Whether a complex score of new music, whether baroque music and virtuoso classical music or InchjustInch a little melody of folk music Reinhold Friedrich always knows how to create with his playing that overwhelming presence of InchNow!Inch, which characterizes the trumpet so uniquely... He is joined by equally exposed masters of their craft solo trumpeter Hannes Läubin, long associated with Reinhold Friedrich as an equal duo partner and friend, and InchGrishaInch Gregory Ahss, whose violin playing displays a similar stylistic breadth ranging from classical virtuosity to melodically heart-warming emotionality. This distinctive sound college is rounded off by the Munich Symphony Orchestra / Münchner Symphoniker, conducted by Martín Baeza-Rubio, which is as colorful as it is sensitive.