Trumpet Voices – Tracks Information

All trumpet parts performed by Neal Berntsen

1. Gottfried Reiche (1667-1734)……Ablassen :23

ONE TRUMPET
Publisher: none
Equipment: Yamaha Custom 4 Valve Piccolo in A, Laskey Pic mouthpiece

The German musician Gottfried Reiche was considered one of the finest instrumentalists of his day. Reiche spent the better part of his career in Leipzig, where he played all of the first trumpet parts of another famous musician who made that city his home — Johann Sebastian Bach. A prolific composer in his own right, Gottfried Reiche wrote 122 Abblasen-Stücken, of which only one has survived. The short and brilliant solo work that opens this disc also serves as the theme for the CBS Sunday Morning show.

2. Alfonso X El Sabio (1221-1284)…..Como poden per sas culpas   2:20

TWO TRUMPETS
Arranged by Phil Snedecor
Publisher: PAS Music
Percussion: Timothy Adams Jr.
Equipment: Yamaha Custom 4 Valve Piccolo in A, Laskey Pic mouthpiece

The Spanish monarch Alfonso X El Sabio (“Alfonso the Wise” or “Alfonso the Learned”) was a man of considerable and varied artistic gifts. Alfonso originally composed his Cantaiges de Santa Maria (“Songs of St. Mary”) to accompany the celebrations of the miracles of the Virgin Mary. The song, “Como poden per sas culpas”  tells the story of a lame man who is finally able to walk again. The principal melody — with its constant shifting of 3/4 and 6/8 rhythms — depicts the man’s uneven gait. In this arrangement by Phil Snedecor, an introduction by percussion leads to an exchange between piccolo trumpets.

Johann Ernst Altenburg (1734-1801)…..Concerto for Seven Trumpets and Timpani  (1795) 4:51

3. I. Allegro 2:14
4. II. Andante 1:44
5. III. Vivace :53     05 – Vivace

SEVEN TRUMPETS
Editor: Edward H.Tarr
Publisher: The Brass Press
Timpani: Timothy Adams Jr.
Equipment: Yamaha Custom 4 Valve Piccolo Trumpet in B flat, Schilke P54 piccolo Trumpet in B flat, Laskey PIC mouthpiece, Schilke Custom Skeletonized Mouthpiece, NY Bach CL trumpet, 229 Bell #7977 (1948)

The 18th-century German musician Johann Ernst Altenburg is best known for his influential 1795 treatise on the “Trumpeters’ and Kettledrummers’ Heroic and Musical Art”. The Concerto for Seven Trumpets and Timpani is included as a sort of appendix to that treatise. There is some question as to whether Altenburg actually composed this brilliant work, which is cast in the traditional fast—slow—fast three-movement form.

6. Leos Janacek (1854-1928)……Sokol Fanfare from Sinfonietta (1926) 2:08   06 – Sinfonietta

NINE TRUMPETS
Transcribed by James Olcott
Publisher: Triplo Press
Wagner Tuben: William Caballero
BassTrumpet: Peter Sullivan
Timpani: Timothy Adams Jr.
Equipment: NY Bach CL trumpet 229 Bell, #7977 (1948), Elkhart Bach CL trumpet, 229 Bell (Laskey modification) #55842, NY Bach B flat trumpet model 25-62,#3997 (1937), Bach 1C mouthpiece

The Sinfonietta was Czech composer Leos Janacek’s final completed work for orchestra. The glorious opening fanfare originated as an independent work for the 1926 Sokol Gymnastic Festival in Prague. The vibrant, kaleidoscopic music is the ideal opening to a composition Janacek described as portraying “the contemporary free man, his spiritual beauty and joy, his strength, courage and determination to fight for victory.”

7. Bruce Broughton (b. 1945)…..Concert Piece for Eight Trumpets (1999) 1:39

EIGHT TRUMPETS
Publisher: Black Squirrel Music
Equipment: NY Bach CL trumpet 229 Bell, #7977 (1948), Elkhart Bach CL trumpet, 229 Bell (Laskey modification) #55842, NY Bach B flat trumpet model 25-62,#3997 (1937), Bach 1C mouthpiece

Bruce Broughton is one of the leading composers for the cinema and television, and the winner of nine Emmy awards. Mr Broughton is also a prolific writer of concert works, including the stirring 1999 Concert Piece for EightTrumpets.

08. Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654)…..Canzon (Cornetto à 4 voc.1621) 3:19

FOUR TRUMPETS
Editor: Robert King
Publisher: Alphonse Leduc Editions Musicales
Equipment: Monke Rotary Valve Bflat Trumpet, Shilke Custom Vcup Mouthpiece

This work by the German Renaissance composer Samuel Scheidt made its first appearance in a 1621 collection. It is the only piece in that collection in which Scheidt specifies the instrumentation.

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)……Khaldis, Concerto for Piano Trumpets & Percussion Op.91 (1959)  20:04

9.    I. Overture 3:44
10.  II. Transmutation 2:43
11. III. Three Tones 1:13
12.  IV. Bhajana (Adoration) 3:38
13.   V. Jhala with Drum 3:23
14.  VI. Processional 3:29
15. VII. Finale 1:54

FOUR TRUMPETS
Publisher: Robert King Music
Pianist: Natasha Snitkovsky
Timpani and Percussion: Timothy Adams Jr.
Equipment: NY Bach CL trumpet 229 Bell, #7977 (1948), NY Bach B flat trumpet model 25-62, #3997 (1937), Bach 1C mouthpiece, Yamaha Flugelhorn, Bach 1CFL Mouthpiece

Alan Hovhaness composed Khaldis at the end of 1951, toward the conclusion of what the composer refers to as his “Armenian” period. Hovhaness named the work after Urarduan the (pre-Armenian) god of the universe. In this seven-movement piece, the composer employs “subtle rhythmic and polyphonic foundations” to create an atmosphere of “volcanic intensity”. The composer also notes: “This music suggests the origins of music in a primitive sort of grand culture where vitality of everything is bigger than life and there is a very heroic civilization.”

16. Carl Ruggles (1876-1971)…..”Angels” from “Men and Angels” (1925) 2:30

SIX TRUMPETS
Publisher: Curwen Inc.
Equipment: NY Bach CL trumpet 229 Bell, #7977 (1948), NY Bach B flat trumpet model 25-62 , #3997 (1937), Bach 1C mouthpiece, Engemann wooden straight mute

American composer Carl Ruggles first conceived of this hymn as the center of a three-movement symphonic suite, entitled Men and Angels. This recording features Ruggles’ original scoring of the work for six muted trumpets

Johann Vierdanck (1612c.-1646)…..

17.  Capriccio I  1:18   17 – Capriccio I

18.  Capriccio II 1:36

TWO TRUMPETS
Publisher: Crown Music Press
Percussion: Timothy Adams Jr.
Equipment: Yamaha Custom 4 Valve Piccolo in A, Laskey Pic mouthpiece

These two brief pieces are from a series of Capriccios by the 17th-century German composer Johann Vierdanck. In this recording, lively percussion accompaniment reinforces the dance-like nature of the music.

19. Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704)…..Sonata a 7 (1668) 4:30

SIX TRUMPETS
Editor: Robert L. Minter
Publisher: Breitkopf & Hartel
Organist: Dr. Gretchen Franz
Organ recorded at Mt. Lebanon (Pennsylvania) United Methodist Church
Organ: Aeolian Skinner
Timpani: Timothy Adams Jr.
Equipment: Yamaha Custom 4 Valve Piccolo Trumpetin A, Schilke P54 piccolo Trumpet in B flat, Laskey PIC mouthpiece,Schilke Custom Skeletonized Mouthpiece, NY Bach CL trumpet, 229 Bell #7977 (1948), Bach 1C mouthpiece

The Sonata a 7 is one of two such works Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber composed for multiple trumpets. The festive single-movement composition features an ensemble of six trumpets, organ, and timpani.

20. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)…..Fanfare for St.Edmundsbury (1959) 3:08

THREE TRUMPETS
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.
Equipment: NY Bach CL trumpet 229 Bell, #7977 (1948), Bach 1C mouthpiece

Benjamin Britten wrote this Fanfare in 1959 for the Pageant of Magna Carta, which took place on the grounds of Bury St. Edmunds Cathedral, England. The work is scored for three trumpets, each of which plays a solo fanfare (Britten requests that the “trumpeters should be placed as far apart as possible”). Finally. the three fanfares are played together, leading to a grand resolution.

Johann Melchior Molter (1695-1765)….Symphony In C Major for 4 Trumpets 5:54

21.  I.   Allegro  1:09
22.  II.  Menuet  :58
23.  III. Allegro  1:11
24.  IV.  Allegro  1:28
25.  V.   Allegro  1:08

FOUR TRUMPETS
Publisher: Musica Rara
Equipment: Yamaha Custom 4 Valve Piccolo in B flat, Laskey Pic mouthpiece, NY Bach CL trumpet 229 Bell, #7977 (1948), Laskey 70C Mouthpiece

Johann Melchior Molter was a prolific composer of instrumental music, including some of the earliest concertos for the clarinet. This Symphony in five movements is scored for performance by either four horns or trumpets.

26. Ivan Moody (b. 1964)…..Words of the Angel (1998)    5:22

THREE TRUMPETS
Publisher: Vanderbeek & Imrie Ltd.
Equipment: Yamaha Custom 4 Valve Piccolo in A, Laskey Pic Mouthpiece NY Bach CL trumpet, 229 Bell #7977 (1948), Bach 1C mouthpiece

The works of the English composer, Ivan Moody, reflect the profound influence of his Orthodox faith. Ivan Moody composed his Words of the Angel in 1998 for the vocal Trio Mediaeval. The text, part of the Orthodox Easter Day liturgy of St. John Chrysostum, describes an Angel exhorting the Virgin Mary to rejoice, as her Son has risen from the tomb. In this arrangement, three trumpets assume the roles of the two soprano and alto voices.

27. Joseph Turrin (b. 1947)…..Festival Fanfare for Eight Trumpets (1990)(1975) 1:24

EIGHT TRUMPETS
Publisher: Rosehill Music Publishing Company Limited
Percussion: Timothy Adams Jr.
Equipment: NY Bach CL trumpet 229 Bell, #7977 (1948), NY Bach B flat trumpet model 25-62, #3997 (1937), Bach 1C mouthpiece

The works by the American composer, Joseph Turrin, span the concert stage, films and theater. Among Joseph Turrin’s many compositions for brass is the vibrant Festival Fanfare for Eight Trumpets, written for the famous jazz artist, Lew Soloff formerly of the group Blood, Sweat and Tears.

28. Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)…..Fanfare for a New Theatre (1964) :34

TWO TRUMPETS
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.
Equipment: NY Bach CL trumpet 229 Bell, #7977 (1948), Bach 1C mouthpiece

Igor Stravinsky wrote this brief Fanfare to commemorate the April 1964 opening of the New York State Theater, home of George Balanchine’s New York City Ballet. English writer Eric Walter White described: “The effect of the two trumpets is like that of two pennants flying and crackling in a brisk wind.”

29.  I. Four of a Kind 1:43
30.  II. Hall of Mirrors 1:28
31.  III. O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing 1:33
32.  IV. Ripples in Time 1:23   32 – Ripples in Time
33.  V. The Bell Tower 1:41
34.  VI.The Side Band 1:01
35.  VII. Someone Is Following You :59

ONE TRUMPET
Computer Technician: Roger Dannenberg
Equipment: NY Bach CL trumpet 229 Bell, #7977 (1948), Bach 1C mouthpiece (World Premiere Recording)

Roger Dannenberg is a composer, trumpet player and member of the faculty of Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. His “Resound!” is a series of seven fanfares, scored for solo trumpet and computer. In each fanfare, a different computer technique “expands the solo trumpet into an ensemble.” The composer adds: “I hope these little pieces will expand what we think of as ‘trumpet music’ and perhaps open some new pathways for composers, performers, and listeners alike.”