Like Rafael Mendez and Roger Voisin before him, Armando Ghitalla was a legend in the classical trumpet category. He did not probe the extreme depths of the expressive voice of the trumpet, like Voisin, nor did he go flying off hell bent for leather, as Mendez was wont to do -- Ghitalla's was a good, all-around trumpet sound. Replacing Roger Voisin ...
Premier's Trumpet Concertos of Three Centuries is a 1987 album featuring trumpet legend Armando Ghitalla and produced by Peter Breiner, possibly for Naxos, but not released by it; it finally appeared in 1992 on the Premier Records label. Conductor William Perry is a television composer best known for his soundtrack music for PBS' The Silent Years; ...
Reinhold Friedrich (the album's rather geeky title refers to the quintet-plus-soloist configuration of much of the music) reverses the usual order of things, beginning with the thorniest contemporary work and proceeding to Renaissance sounds (albeit filtered through contemporary ears), Romanticism, and jazz (which comes in a pretty thorny variety ...
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