| So many pieces, so much great music. Pretty much anything by Shostakovich has great trumpet parts - check out Festive Overture, Symphonies 1, 7, 10, 11, and 12, and the First Piano Concerto. Also, most Bartok pieces have great parts - Miraculous Mandarin, the 3 Piano Concertos, the Wooden Prince, Dance Suite, and Cantata Profana. Scriabin wrote expressively for the trumpet - check out Poem of Ecstacy, Prometheus, Second Symphony, etc. Vaughan Williams wrote beautiful trumpet parts - check out Symphonies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, well, actually all of them (1-9 - my favorites are 1 and 5). All Bruckners are great. Probably Symphonies 3, 4, and 7 have the best trumpet parts, followed closely by 5, 6, and 8, but I love all of them. French composers wrote very soloistic trumpet parts. Check out Debussy La Mer, Nocturnes, anything by Ravel, Ibert Divertissment (any anything else by Ibert), Honneger King David, Joan of Arc, etc.
Boy this list could go on a long time! Those are just a few ideas - check out some CDs from a library and enjoy the listening. Listening to great music is one of life's great pleasures!
JU |