BudBix

Here's a list to start. I'm looking for pieces I may not have discovered yet. Apologies for any misspellings.

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Bruckner Symphonies (but what are your favorites)
Capriccio Espagnol
Capriccio Italien
Dvorak 9
Pictures at an Exhibition
Mahler Symphonies
Scheherazade
Shostakovich 5
Tchaikovsky Symphonies
Verdi Requiem

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MahlerBrass

Personally I think Dvorak 8 has a better trumpet part(s) than his 9th symphony, and I don't see Poem of Ecstasy on the list

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trumpet blower88

Stravinsky's Petrushka!

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tpter1

Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture, Symphonie Fantastique
Tchaikowsky Cappriccio Italien
Prokofiev Lt. Kije Suite
Copland Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Symphony #3
Bernstein Jeremiah Symphony
Ravel Daphnis and Chloe, Piano Concerto
Any Strauss tone poems (Ein Heldenleben, Don Juan, Zarathustra, Eine Alpinsinfonie, Don Quixote are my favorites)
Stravinsky Firebird (I like the complete...), Le Sacre du Printemps,
Wagner Parsifal

So, so many more that I am completely not even tninking of at the moment. Just go to the classical section of your local CD/Record store and browse around. Also, don't get hung up on trumpet only pieces. There are a good many works that are not trumpet spotlights that are just mind blowing in themselves. (Barber's Adagio comes to mind as one of them). Develop a good ear for those, too.

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Johntpt

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

trumpetnick

I am surprised not to see Stravinsly's Pulcinella and Petrushka, Holst' Planets and all these Bach's Cantatas with trumpet solos (there is quite few of them). I can't miss Handel's Messiah and Wassermusik.Nick

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highbrass

Those are all great pieces posted so far...I enjoy playing those pieces. I'm glad someone mentioned Roman Carnival -- I had lots of fun playing it.

Here's a few others with some great trumpet parts:

Respighi - lots of nice, tasty off-stage solos and section stuff (and major endurance and range stuff): Pines of Rome, Feste Romane, Church Windows, Brazilian Impressions, Fountains of Rome, to name a few major ones.

Sibelius: Finlandia (double tonguing and sonorous brass chorale sections)

Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker (Chocolat has that nice trumpet solo)


BTW, this is a great weekend to be at Ravinia, as the CSO will be performing both the Pictures (July 7) and Verdi Requiem (July 8). I'm really looking forward to these performances. It'll be interesting to see where they will place the antiphonal trumpets in the Verdi.


Liz

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Lawler Bb

I will be at Ravinia this weekend too. It's a loaded weekend with Pictures and the Verdi Requiem! The CSO sounded pretty good a week ago playing Mahler No. 3.

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hornblatt

Shostakovich 1 starts with a trumpet solo and had plenty of exposed parts in it. Heck it even has a few 3rd trumpet solos!

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robertwhite

Tons of good stuff in Sibelius' Symphonies as well. Especially 2 and 5.