Cat No. JM44525
Price £7.50
Composer: Michael Bennett
Categories: SOLOS - B♭. Cornet/Trumpet with Piano, Michael Bennett Collection

In the 1960s Malcolm Arnold wrote a series of unaccompanied fantasies for the trumpet, horn,trombone and tuba. The pieces became very popular with generations of brass players. It was a great pleasure to meet Sir Malcolm a few years before he died  and present him with copies of my Fantasies,  telling him his own compositions were a great influence on me.

The Fantasy for Trumpet opens with a call in C major but immediately rises a semitone to Db major. This move perpetuates throughout.

The slower section in five time includes calls using ‘’half-cocked valves’’ which gives the effect of being played off stage.

The Scherzando is based on the opening bars of the piece , there is then a short recapitulation of the main theme followed by two octave harmonic leaps which brings us to a close.