Music For Trumpet And Orchestra - Purcell - Vivaldi - Haydn

 

Music For Trumpet And Orchestra

Music For Trumpet And Orchestra

Purcell - Vivaldi - Haydn

Roger Voisin & Armando Ghitalla, soloists

Unicorn Concert Orchestra

Conducted by Harry Ellis Dickson

Recored at Jordan Hall, Boston

Kapp Classics KCL-9017

1958

From the back cover: The Soloists and Conductor

Roger Voisin was born in France and came to the United States as a young boy. He studied the trumpet with his father, who was a prominent trumpeter and a graduate with honors from the Paris Conservatory. During World War II Mr. Voisin was an instructor at the Navy School of Music in Washington, D.C. He is now on the faculty of the New England Conservatory and also teaches at the Berkshire Music Center. An enthusiastic performer of all kinds of brass music, Mr. Voisin organized a brass ensemble in 1952, to make possible performance so brass ensemble music in the New England area. This group performed with great success at the Edinburgh Festival in 1956. A sportsman as well as a musician, Mr. Voisin occasionally finds time amid his many musical activities to indulge in his other favorite pastime, fishing with his son. He has made two other albums for Unicorn – UNLP 1003, The Golden Ate Of Brass and UNLP1031, The Modern Age Of Brass.

Armando Ghitalla is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music. He had played first trumpet with the New York City Center Opera Company with the Houston Symphony, and has been soloist with the Band of America. He now teaches at Boston University.

Harry Ellis Dickson is a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts and studied violin at the New Englan Conservatory of Music and with Carl Flesch at the Hochchule Fur Music, in Berlin. Mr. Dickson began his conducting career in the early 1930's when he organized and directed the Massachusetts State Symphony and, following that, conducted the Providence Brookline, Massachusetts and is an outstanding pour of the world renowned Pierre Monteux. This is Mr. Dickson's first recording.

Also from the back cover: This marks the first time that a ling-playing record has been produced which is devoted entirely to works for trumpet and orchestra, works which – with the exception of Jeremiah Clarke's "Trumpet Voluntary" – have never been recorded in the United States. The music is old, all of it antedating the invention of the valved trumpet. The instruments on which this music is played are new, fine examples of modern craftsmanship and skill in recording is all available on stereophonic tape.

The cover was photographed by Stephen W. Plimpton at the summer home of Mr. Voisin and includes a small part of his extensive collection of trumpets. The central, diagonal instrument is a Heraldic of Coronation Trumpet and was used by Mr. Voisin in the recording of the famous Trumpet Voluntary in D.

From Billboard - December , 1958: Another Unicorn catalog item featuring fascinating music by Haydn, Vivaldi and Purcell. Disk is a fine showcase for Voisin's virtuosity, and he demonstrates par excellence in the characteristics of French horn playing. It's instructive to hear the sharp, wiry sound and the rapid vibrato Voisin employs to get his beautiful sound. Ghitalla's trumpet playing is good, too. Competition exists, but it's not overwhelming.

Haydn: Concerto For Trumpet And Orchestra In E Flat

Allegro – Andante – Allegro

Soloist: Roger Voisin

Orchestrated by Lesley Woodgate

Vivaldi: Concerto For Two Trumpets And Orchestra In C

Allegro - Largo - Allegro Moderato

Soloists: Roger Voisin and Armando Ghitalla

Purcell: Tune And Air For Trumpet And Orchestra In D

Soloists: Roger Voisin

Organ: Daniel Pinkham

Orchestrated by Lesley Wood

Purcell: Voluntary For Two Trumpets In C

Soloists: Roger Voisin and Armando Ghitalla

Orchestrated by Jacobs Langendoen

Purcell: Trumpet Voluntary In D

Soloist: Roger Voisin

Orchestrated by Jacobs Langendoen

Purcell: Sonata For Trumpet And Strings In D

Allegro Moderato - Adagio - Allegro Vivace

Soloist: Roger Voisin