Trumpettissimo: Trumpet concertos from the Baroque (1994)

Between 1685 and 1750, trumpets transcended their role as heralds and bringers of announcements and were accorded a place of esteem as soloists with the baroque string band. Baroque composers wrote for trumpets when they needed music that was bright, jubilant or stentorian. Practitioners of the instrument developed phenomenal techniques as the sought to maximize the number of playable notes produced from a piece of brass tubing with a mouthpiece at one end and a bell at the other with no way of manipulating pitches beyond micro-fine adjustments of their embouchures. This recording is a compendium of baroque music for multiple trumpets, representative of various styles and trends of composition. Included are both concertos with orchestra and works in which the trumpets function as their own ensemble with nothing more than timpani (and in one instance a small organ) to leaven the mix. (uit het de tekst in het CD-boekje)