Est 1923

Baroque Trumpet Concertos

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Georg Philipp Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi, Petronio Franceschini, Johann Valentin Rathgeber, Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

Label: DG

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 46

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: 431 817-2GH

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Concerto for 3 Trumpets and Orchestra No. 2 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer
Bernhard Läubin, Trumpet
English Chamber Orchestra
Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer
Hannes Läubin, Trumpet
Simon Preston, Harpsichord
Wolfgang Läubin, Trumpet
Concerto for 2 Trumpets and Strings Johann Valentin Rathgeber, Composer
Bernhard Läubin, Trumpet
English Chamber Orchestra
Hannes Läubin, Trumpet
Johann Valentin Rathgeber, Composer
Simon Preston, Harpsichord
Sonata for Two Trumpets, Strings and Continuo Petronio Franceschini, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra
Hannes Läubin, Trumpet
Petronio Franceschini, Composer
Simon Preston, Harpsichord
Wolfgang Läubin, Trumpet
(12) Concerti a cinque, Movement: No. 3 in B flat Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra
Hannes Läubin, Trumpet
Simon Preston, Harpsichord
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Composer
Double Concerto for 2 Trumpets and Strings Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
Antonio Vivaldi, Composer
English Chamber Orchestra
Hannes Läubin, Trumpet
Simon Preston, Harpsichord
Wolfgang Läubin, Trumpet
Concerto for 3 Trumpets and Orchestra No. 1 Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer
Bernhard Läubin, Trumpet
English Chamber Orchestra
Georg Philipp Telemann, Composer
Hannes Läubin, Trumpet
Simon Preston, Harpsichord
Wolfgang Läubin, Trumpet
There seems to be an insatiable demand for collections of trumpet concertos, and sometimes when I see yet another one I do an unbelieving double-take, for often their music content is rather conventional. But this programme is really different. All the works except one involve two or more of the gifted Laubin family to felicitous effect, and the solo playing and indeed the partnership with the ECO are so well managed that this disc is almost irresistible.
The first work by Telemann not only involves three trumpets but oboes too, and what an inviting piece it is. The ''Intrada'' with its dotted rhythms is wonderfully light and buoyant, the oboes carolling alongside the brass, but it is the third movement that has the most effervescent and colourful interplay, between trumpets, strings and oboes, while in the fourth (of the five movements) a songful oboe is set against a delicately tripping accompaniment. By contrast the finale sparkles with extrovert bravura. If anything the work by Johann Valentin Rathgeber, which follows, has even more charm. The tutti opens with an elegantly galant theme and the pair of trumpets take it up with glittering bravura; the Adagio, with its gentle organ continuo and the trumpets in thirds is hardly less winning, while the finale fizzes. The three movements are all very short, each a quite perfectly formed miniature. The work by Petronio Franceschini has four even briefer movements, yet the Adagio makes its expressive mark and there is a festive atmosphere in the outer movements, with some effective imitation between the soloists in the finale. I shall pass by the Albinoni work, which is a transcription of an oboe concerto, very well done but not an improvement on the original. Vivaldi's Double Concerto is very enjoyable, if not distinctive. But it follows on after Franceschini in its imitative overlapping by the soloists, which again works jubilantly in the finale (Vivaldi's writing is even more florid). The second Telemann work is perhaps not quite as memorable as the first concerto on the disc, but is still characteristically inventive and completes one of the best baroque trumpet anthologies in the catalogue.
Simon Preston directs the spirited and polished accompaniments and again confirms for me that baroque music can sound absolutely splendid on modern instruments.'

Baroque Trumpet Concertos

Concerto for 3 Trumpets and Orchestra No. 2

Concerto for 2 Trumpets and Strings

Sonata for Two Trumpets, Strings and Continuo

(12) Concerti a cinque, Movement: No. 3 in B flat

Double Concerto for 2 Trumpets and Strings

Concerto for 3 Trumpets and Orchestra No. 1

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