Everyone knows what a trumpet sounds like - except that they don't. During Saturday's engrossing concert by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Italian trumpeter Gabriele Cassone introduced most ...
La Follia performs the greatest masterworks of Mozart and Haydn, using instruments and performance practices like those used during the composers' lifetimes. The concert features a trio of Austin ...
None of us alive now — or for the past two hundred years, actually — remembers when the trumpet was not able to play a melody. As loud, commanding and often shrill as it was; prior to 1800, the sleek ...