Cat No. JM102683
Price £5.95
Composer: Michael Bennett
Categories: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano, Michael Bennett Collection

Grade 6
Duration 7.30

The Adagio for trumpet and piano begins with the trumpet playing a Scottish Lament with a minimal of piano  accompaniment. This feeling of sparce accompaniment permeats throughout the work.
 
A short solo on the piano is followed by a new theme in three time. The first three notes of this haunting theme played on the trumpet serve as a leitmotif for the rest of the piece. The piano repeats this waltz - like theme in the higher octave giving the impression of a child’s musical box. The trumpet re-enters with ascending quavers, growing in intensity, which leads to the most exciting part of the piece with the piano having accented octaves in the left hand and dramatic arpeggios in the right. Descending quavers in the trumpet part and the leitmotif being shared by both instruments leads to the waltz theme being played in a slower tempo on the muted trumpet creating a feeling of peacefulness. A short piano solo is then followed by a recapitulation of the Lament before a tierce de picardie draws the work to a close.
 
Michael J Bennett