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Finnish composer Jaakko Kuusisto came to Buffalo in 2015 for the US premiere of his violin concerto as part of CAI’s FinnFest residency. While here, he began a collaboration with BPO Principal Trumpet ...

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From a new release on the Naxos label, we open the hour with the closing movement from Haydn's Trumpet Concerto. The trumpet soloist is Niklas Eklund, with conductor Roy Goodman and the Swedish ...

Despite having his own highly virtuosic orchestra, Haydn wrote his Trumpet Concerto for an old friend called Anton Weidinger, who was a member of the Imperial Court Orchestra in Vienna. Weidinger was ...

LENOX — You could hear Detlev Glanert's Trumpet Concerto, which received its world premiere Monday night at Tanglewood, as a dreamer fighting his way out of a nightmare. He's desperate, then resigned, ...

Stacy Blair, who lost nearly all his sight at birth, played for his guide dog Guthrie in 1998. He was a soloist with orchestras in several cities, including Dallas. Stacy Blair was never able to see ...

This week's guest on the Gramophone Podcast is trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, who talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about her new recording on the Lawo label. Called 'Echoes', it features works by ...

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Why commission a new work for orchestra? Paul Grangaard had many reasons for ...