Category: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano Material: Bram Wiggins
A collection of 12 solos with piano accompaniment. Ideal for SLOW MELODY COMPETITIONS !
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01. Dido’s Lament - Purcell 02. If Thou Be Near - Bach 03. Silent Worship - Handel 04, Canzonetta - Anon 05. The Lass With The Delicate Air - Arne 06. Serenade - Schubert 07. On Wings of Song - Mendelssohn 08. Quand Tu Chanters (Serenade) -Gounod 09. Pilgrim Song - Tchaikovsky 10. Last Spring - Grieg
Category: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano Composer: Rutland Boughton
Trumpet in Bb. / C with piano reduction.
First performance given by John Wallace and the Fife Sinfonia 23 September 1980. Recorded on the ASV label by John Wallace and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for release in Spring 2005.
Rutland Boughton (1878- 1960) is unique in the history of British music on two main counts: the Glastonbury Festivals, which he ran with great success from 1914 to 1926 and for which he composed a series of major music - dramas, and for his opera ‘The Immortal Hour’ which was phenomenally popular in London during the 1920s and ‘SOs. In 1927 he took up residence at Kilcot on the Gloucester Herefordshire borders where, in the intervals of small-scale farming, he continued to write imaginatively for the stage. But he also turned his attention to other forms of music, including two fine symphonies and a number of important concertos.
The Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra was composed in the August and September of 1943. Boughton dedicated it to his youngest son, Brian, who was then studying trumpet at the Royal College of Music under Ernest Hall. Apart from his delight in writing pieces to encourage the musically- gifted members of his family (the splendid oboe concerto he wrote in 1937 for his daughter Joy - one of this country’s leading soloists - is a case in point), Boughton seems to have had no particular player or occasion in mind when he planned the Trumpet Concerto and was probably greatly disheartened when both Ernest Hall and George Eskdale [principal trumpet of the L.S.O.) declared it too difficult for performance. Boughton appears to have played it through at the piano with the young William Overton, and then laid it on one side. Thus, after a delay of nearly fifty years, John Wallace’s performances with the Fife. Sinfonia were the first!
As Boughton was a composer who was able to express his very considerable imagination entirely by means of traditional forms and an orthodox musical vocabulary, his work poses few problems to the attentive listener. The two movements of the Trumpet Concerto move effortlessly through a series of contrasted sections and moods, each marked by a definite change of speed.
As befits an overtly virtuoso work, the accent is primarily on the soloist — though Boughton’s colourful orchestration allows the accompanying players appropriate moments of glory.
Category: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano Composer: Harry James
Available at last in a version for trumpet and piano! Though not a concerto in the classical sense this is, nonetheless, a popular vehicle for trumpet (or cornet) soloists to show off their jazz credentials! It does not outstay its welcome and is great fun all round.
Categories: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano, Howard Snell Music Composer: Howard Snell
Sleeping is for ever a mysterious activity, that may never be fully understood. The quiet progression of this piece... originally a movement from Images of the Millennium for Brass Band... mirrors a passage of half-sleep in which the sleeper imagines an unbroken, gentle, hypnotic melodic line played by equally dream-like musicians.
Categories: NEW & RECENT Publications, SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano, Michael Bennett Collection Composer: Frederic Chopin Arranger: Michael Bennett
Categories: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano, NEW & RECENT Publications Composer: Peter Graham
Gramercy Cornet Album
I am delighted to present this collection of solos for Cornet, part of a series of albums planned for brass instruments including Euphonium, Trombone and Tenor Horn. The contents are for advanced (and in some cases virtuoso) players in mind and although designated as a Cornet Album the titles within are (mostly) equally suitable for Trumpet.
Cossack Fire Dance is the central movement of Call of the Cossacks, a suite originally written for the Black Dyke Brass Band. Based on the folk song Mazeltov the music brings to mind part of the Cossack wedding ceremony where, following a Klezmer style clarinet call, each guest around the camp fire comes forward in turn to offer congratulations.
The multiple instrumentalists of the original have been supplanted by a single "guest" whose increasingly attention seeking behaviour includes quoting from a number of popular musical display pieces...
The idea of creating this solo version came from Florida-based Trumpeter Thomas Macklin.
Resurrection is a Rhapsody for Trumpet (or Cornet) which takes as its model composer Ray Steadman—Allen's classic solo Rhapsody on Negro Spirituals. Like Steadman-Allen's work, Resurrection is based upon two spirituals, in this case He Never Said a MumbIin' Word and The Angels Rolled the Stone Away.
Resurrection was written at the request of Chicago-based Mark Ridenour.
The French flautist Eugene Damaré was a prolific composer of virtuoso showpieces for his instrument. Two of the best known, Cleopatra and Pandora were adapted for cornet (possibly by William Rimmer) and are well established in the repertoire. Both became signature pieces for the famous Black Dyke Mills Band Principal Cornet player, james Shepherd, who held the position for over a decade into the early l970s. This work is an adaptation of Eugene Damare's polka Le Merle Blanc (Op. l6l) and also incorporates an original slow introduction together with other stylistically period-appropriate material.
Damaré was written for Black Dyke's current Principal Cornetist Richard Marshall.
Harry James made his Paramount Theater (NYC) debut with Benny Goodman's band in I937 and by all accounts took the venue by storm. His characteristic jazz and classical crossover adaptations (incorporating virtuoso cornet solo techniques he acquired in his youth) captured the imagination of the public (and Hollywood). quickly propelling him to household fame. Paramount Rhapsody pays tribute to this legendary performer. The music roughly follows the Harry James Trumpet Concerto in form, the content incorporating the popular classic In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.
Paramount Rhapsody was written for and recorded by Philip Cobb on the Naxos album Metropolis I927.
Category: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano Composer: Peter Graham
A collection of ten graded solos for any Bb. instrument.
As the title suggests, this collection of 10 solos is presented in the form of a musical travelogue with visits to Moscow, New York, Buenos Aires, New Orleans, San Juan and Paris being among the destinations reached.
The music makes reference in pastiche to composers forever associated with these cities, from Gershwin (New York) to Satie (Paris), ensuring a familiarity for the performer and listener alike.
The collection is progressively graded, making it suitable for beginners through to performers at medium advanced level.
Please note that this title is also availabe for Eb. instruments.
Category: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano Arranger: Richard Bissell
Album of eight well known tunes for trumpet &* piano.
1. If My Friends Coul See Me Now
2. You'll Never Walk Alone
3. Gabriel's Oboe
4. Cool Hand Blues
5. Lara's Theme
6. The Way You Look Tonight
7. With Every Breath I Take
8. I'm Beginning To See the Light
Categories: NEW & RECENT Publications, SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano, Michael Bennett Collection Composer: Michael Bennett
Dedicated to Derek Bishop.
Derek Paul Bishop was a trombonist, arranger and publisher and for thirty years was principal bass trombone in the Scottish Ballet Orchestra. Like many brass players of his generation Derek began his musical life in the Salvation Army thereafter studying at the Royal College of Music in London and then at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies at Goldsmiths University
Categories: NEW & RECENT Publications, SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano Composer: Andrew Derrick
Six jazz solos for Bb. Trumpet & Piano
Jazz in Time was designed for developing brass players looking for extra repertoire that is both fun to play and helpful in developing the skills required in jazz playing - those of good rhythmic awareness, stylish attention to detail and strong reading.
The piano parts are also intended to both be educational to the more Classically trained performer to teach jazz skills and to the typical busy brass teacher who hasn't quite honed advanced piano skills.
Each piece uses elements of harmonic progression from an established melody.
Categories: Michael Bennett Collection, SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano, NEW & RECENT Publications Composer: George Halket Arranger: Michael Bennett
Logie o’Buchan is a well known North East of Scotland Ballad composed around 1736 by George Halket a well known Jacobite.
The song has been covered and recorded by many folk singers and musicians from all over the world. The Logie mentioned is situated in Crimond although there are many places called Logie in the North East.
The hero of the song was James Robertson who was the gardener at the Mansion of Logie in Crimond. It was also in Crimond where Jessie Seymour Irvine composed the melody to Psalm 23, The Lord’s My Shepherd, which is now known all over the world as Crimond. Crimond is also where as a child I spent many a happy summer holiday as my granda and granny ran the local shop and post office.
This arrangement for trumpet/cornet and piano takes the form of an air and variations.
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