ilikethetrumpet

Mr. Carroll (or Ed),
I'm planning a chamber recital for April or May. The works mostly have a neo-baroque or neo-classical bent to them: Capricorn Concerto and the Hindemith Trumpet and Bassoon Concerto are anchor pieces. I find that this is a good way to learn some out-of-the-way rep while making some new friends. Also probably on the program is a piece written for Bruce Briney by violist Harold Levin for Trumpet, viola, and bassoon.

I'm engaged to a violist, so I'm constantly looking for rep that she and I can perform together. I found a pocket score for Gail Kubik"s "Symphony Concertante," for trumpet and viola, written in the 1950s, explicitly neo-classical, and it looks like an interesting piece. It won the pulitzer prize, although like many pulitzer prize winning pieces I have no idea what happened to it. I thought I'd ask you, oh sage of twentieth century music, if you knew of any recordings, performances, or piano reductions of this piece. Or if you'd even heard of it!

I'd reduce the piece myself, but it would be nice to hear it first to make sure I didn't put in hours and hours of time memorializing a "fish-piece." Any thoughts?

ecarroll

ilike,

It's funny how I've become a "sage of twentieth centry music" here -- although I'm honored to wear the title.

As for Gail Kubik, I've never heard a note of his (I checked) music (although the composer of the cartoon adventures of Gerald McBoing-Boing would be high on my list!) (boing-boing) (dating myself)

Can't you get a good enough idea from the score? Honestly, I feel that too many of us rely on recorded materials when an hour studying the score should accomplish much the same (or more).

I like and have played both the Hindemith Trumpet and Bassoon Concerto and Barber's Capricorn Concerto (although the latter is a bit light-weight on the ECMeter).

Let us know what you think after 60 minutes of study? (ok, 55)

Watching (here),
EC (sage) (and King of parenthesis)

ecarroll

By the way, Mario Davidovsky, a terrific composer, has an older Trio for clarinet, trumpet, and viola that you might want to check out.

Best,
EC

wiseone2

Try the Virgil Thompson "Sonata da Chiesa,"it is scored for D Trumpet, Eb Clarinet, Small bore Trombone, Horn and Viola. It's different!
Wilmer

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mahaberio

I've performed Schnittke's "Suite in the Old Style" for violin and piano a couple of times and will be playing it for an upcoming recital. It's VERY neoclassical and (I think) works well for trumpet and piano. There is no trumpet edition so I just play off of the violin part and give the pianist a couple of extra notes that they can easily handle. I know you weren't asking for more pieces, but I thought you might be interested.

ecarroll

Matthew,

John Wallace had a manuscript of Schnittke's Suite that named trumpet OR violin. Sadly, it's not exactly Pulcinella, but...

I played first trumpet in the premiere performances of Schnittke's opera "Life with an Idiot" (subtitled, by the musicians, "The Rostropovich Story" after the #!&%! who conducted) (or approximated). Great, great music in spite of Slava. It was recorded by Sony and might still be available (?)

Best,
EC (not exactly Hardenberger either)

mahaberio

Ed,
I'll check for that recording. I wasn't aware Schnittke had originally written it for violin OR trumpet. I know it's been performed on trumpet under his supervision. There are no publications for trumpet, but I'd be very interested in seeing that manuscript. Perhaps you could ask Mr. Wallace where I might find it?

ecarroll

M,

I'll e-mail John. It was a funky photocopy of a Russian manuscript (Schnittke's?)

Cheers,
EC

ilikethetrumpet

Thanks all for your help. The way the world is, I was able to find a recording and score of that Thomson within minutes from the Cowell New Music series from the 40s. I was quite taken by the piece, it fits the bill, and besides that, it's only 20 bucks through boosey and hawkes. Besides that, I just got a Selmer Eb/D (a 1966 that is not quite a radial) that plays great on the D side.

Wow, the fugue on the Thomson looks like a bear.