VASSILY BRANDT (1869-1923): Concert Pieces No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 11 (orch. Eduard Tamm [1879-1941]) and No. 2 in E Flat, Op. 12 (orch. Max Sommerhalder [b.1947]), OSKAR BÖHME (1870-1938): Danse russe, Op. 32, Trumpet Concerto in E Minor, Op. 18, La Napolitaine, Op. 25, GUSTAV CORDS (1870-1951): Concert Fantasy in E Flat Minor, CARL HÖHNE (1860-1927): Slavonic Fantasy, VLADIMIR PESKIN (1906-1988): Trumpet Concerto No. 1 in C Minor.

Description: Along with well-written, detailed notes containing an impassioned argument for the trumpet as a concertante instrument, this offering gives us world premiere recordings of the orchestral versions of every work here except the Böhme concerto. Nor are the works in any way "sound-alikes" - echoes in form and content contain Mendelssohn, Paganini and Rachmaninov and the two large-scale concertos really do have you wondering why no trumpeter gets to play them in concert nowadays. Giuliano Sommerhalder (trumpet, cornet), Neue Philharmonie Westphalen; Heiko Mathias Förster.