Repertoire

Michel Becquet

Interview

A young Michel Becquet challenges orchestral habits, champions the trombone as a solo voice and reflects on competitions, repertoire, teaching and sound.

By Benny Sluchin

Part 1

The Baroque trumpet, the high trumpet and the so-called Bach trumpet

Edward H. Tarr examines the Baroque trumpet and clarifies the origins and meaning of the so-called “Bach trumpet.”

By Edward H. Tarr

Part 1

From musical wallpaper to the twelve-note row

The trombone in the chamber ensemble at the beginning of modern music (1913-1934)

Between 1913 and 1934, the trombone gained an unexpected place in chamber music as Satie, Milhaud and Stravinsky challenged orchestral traditions with jazz and new sounds.

By Michael Struck-Schloen

Part 1

Ornaments in 18th-century Horn Concertos?

Performance once depended as much on informed invention as on written notes, and early horn concertos still carry that forgotten freedom in plain sight.

By Peter Damm

Part 2

From musical wallpaper to the twelve-note row

The trombone in the chamber ensemble at the beginning of modern music (1913-1934)

By Michael Struck-Schloen

Brass in the Operas of Berlioz

Berlioz turned a changing brass section into a dramatic force, using horns, trombones, cornets and saxhorns to shape colour, distance, ceremony and fear.

By Benjamin Perl

The Alto Trombone in the 20th Century Orchestra

By Benny Sluchin

Part 2

Music in an American Frontier Communal Society

Aurora Colony

Music shaped daily life in Aurora’s communal colony, from civic ceremonies and political events to touring brass bands that carried its identity across the American West.

By Deborah M. Olsen

The classical solo concerto for trombone and its interpreters in the 19th century

From Queisser to Ferdinand David: the rise—and disappearance—of the classical trombone concerto in the 19th century reveals a forgotten golden age of virtuosity.

By Werner Beyer

Contemporary systems and trends for the tuba

New music, new rules: Daniel Perantoni explores extended techniques, graphic notation and the evolving language of the tuba.

By Daniel Perantoni

Stanley Friedman sound from the pen...

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Trumpet and percussion, a dynamic combination

+ Music and Zen, interview with Patrick Lehmann and Simone Wolf-Lehmann

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Part 1

The influence of Berlioz

on contemporary 19th Century use of brass instruments

By Ernest H. Gross

Men's chorus and winds

Special Austria

By Elisabeth Anzenberger-Ramminger

Julien-François Zbinden, Composer

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Boosey & Hawkes

A spectacular revival

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Neruda's Concerto for Horn (or trumpet)

By Edward H. Tarr

Part 4

Ornaments in 18th-century Horn Concertos?

Changes and modifications of tempo

Tempo, dynamics and cadenzas expose how much an 18th-century horn concerto once depended on choices that modern notation and instruments can easily obscure.

By Peter Damm

Snapshot: the American Brass Quintet in Europe

Report on the American Brass Quintet’s tour in Europe, highlighting performances, reception and the ensemble’s role in chamber brass music.

By Jean-Pierre Mathez

Part 2

The Alto Trombone

In the 18th Century Sacred Chamber Music from the Abbeys of Göttweig and Melk, Austria

By J. Richard Raum

Emile Joseph Trognée (1868-1942)

Discovery of unpublished trumpet studies

Forgotten in Leningrad for decades, Trognée’s unpublished trumpet studies reconnect the Belgian virtuoso with a European tradition his Russian career had obscured.

By Anatoly Selianin

Part 2

Trombone and Organ, a Dialog

By Klaus Winkler

Transcription fundamentals

Between Bach fugues and Mozart concertos, Ralph Sauer questions where brass transcription renews a work — and where it merely imitates.

By Ralf Sauer

R. Nak & His Tokyo Bach Band

By Michio Sugihara